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Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > 1400 to 1600
Ranked by many scholars as the greatest master of early Italian
Renaissance painting, Masaccio (1401-1428) was the first artist to
use effects of light to create three-dimensional images on a
two-dimensional plane. This achievement, revolutionary in
Masaccio's day, is one of the painter's significant contributions
to art history.
This book explores Masaccio's accomplishment as epitomized by the
multipaneled painting of which the Saint Andrew panel is thought to
have once formed a part: the Pisa Altarpiece, one of the truly
great polyptychs in the history of Italian Renaissance art,
produced in 1426 for a chapel in the church of Santa Maria del
Carmine, Pisa.
The text discusses Masaccio's short life and illustrious career;
the commission for the altarpiece; its patron and program; the
painting's original location; and the role that the church friars
played in the actual commission. Finally, after examining the
polyptych's individual panels, the book traces their subsequent
history and recounts how art historians came to identify them.
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Titian
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Estelle M Hurll
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R452
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Fra Angelico
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J. B. Supino; Translated by Leader Scott
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R454
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It was one of the most concentrated surges of creativity in the
history of civilization. Between 1390 and 1537, Florence poured
forth an astonishing stream of magnificent artworks. But
Florentines did more during this brief period than create
masterpieces. As citizens of a fractious republic threatened from
below, without, and within, they also were driven to reimagine the
political and ethical basis of their world, exploring the meaning
and possibilities of liberty, virtue, and beauty. This vibrant era
is brought to life in rich detail by noted historian Lawrence
Rothfield in The Measure of Man. His highly readable account
introduces readers to a city teeming with memorable individuals and
audacious risk-takers, capable of producing works of the most
serene beauty and acts of the most shocking violence. Rothfield's
cast of characters includes book hunters and book burners, devout
Christians and assassins, humble pharmacists and arrogant
oligarchs, all caught up in a dramatic struggle--a tragic arc
running from the cultural heights of republican idealism in the
early fifteenth century, through the aesthetic flowerings and civic
vicissitudes of the age of the Medici and Savonarola, to the
brooding meditations of Machiavelli and Michelangelo over the fate
of the dying republic.
In Volume VI of his acclaimed" Hinges of History" series, Thomas
Cahill guides us through a time so full of innovation that the
Western world would not again experience its like until the
twentieth century: the new humanism of the Renaissance and the
radical religious alterations of the Reformation.
This was an age where whole continents and peoples were
discovered. It was an era of sublime artistic and scientific
adventure, but also of newly powerful princes and armies--and of
unprecedented courage, as thousands refused to bow their heads to
the religious pieties of the past. In these exquisitely written and
lavishly illustrated pages, Cahill illuminates, as no one else can,
the great gift-givers who shaped our history--those who left us a
world more varied and complex, more awesome and delightful, more
beautiful and strong than the one they had found.
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