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Luca Signorelli - The Complete Paintings (Hardcover)
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Luca Signorelli - The Complete Paintings (Hardcover)
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'With his profound mastery of design, particularly of nudes, and
with his grace in invention and composition, [Luca Signorelli]
opened the way to the perfection of art.' These words, written by
Giorgio Vasari in his celebrated Lives of the Most Eminent
Painters, Sculptors and Architects, express the great admiration
with which Signorelli was regarded by his contemporaries. Born in
Cortona around 1450, Signorelli began his apprenticeship under
Piero della Francesca before going on to study with the Florentine
masters Andrea del Verrocchio, in whose workshop Leonardo da Vinci,
Sandro Botticelli, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Lorenzo di Credi and
Pietro Perugino also learned their art. It was as Perugino's
assistant that Signorelli realized his first known work, the
Testament and Death of Moses in the Sistine Chapel in Rome, in
1482. Between that date and his death in 1523, Signorelli worked
throughout central Italy for some of the greatest patrons of the
age, earning himself a reputation as one of the leading painters of
his generation. Recently restored - and here exquisitely reproduced
- the extraordinary cycle of frescoes of the Last Judgment in the
Cappella Nova at Orvieto, rightly considered Signorelli's finest
masterpiece and a highpoint of the Italian Renaissance, reveal in
all their force and glory the artist's skill as a colourist of the
first rank and as one of the supreme exponents of the male nude.
Illustrated with stunning post-restoration colour plates, this book
is the first in fifty years to re-evaluate Signorelli's importance
and to catalogue his oeuvre. In a detailed life of the artist,
Laurence Kanter traces his career from its origins in Piero's
workshop to his late work in Tuscany and Umbria. In the catalogue,
Tom Henry presents the artist's entire painted oeuvre, including a
number of paintings never before reproduced, while in a separate
plate section he discusses twenty-one of his most important works.
Together these contributions make up the most complete volume on
Luca Signorelli ever published.
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