Author: Carolyn SmythPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 688
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Correggio's Frescoes in Parma Cathedral
Author: Carolyn SmythCorreggio's Frescoes in Parma Cathedral
Author: Carolyn SmythPublisher:
ISBN: 9780691037479
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Correggio's depiction of the Virgin's Assumption into heaven, painted in the cupola of the Duomo of Parma, is widely viewed as one of the most inventive and influential fresco cycles of the Renaissance. Even so, the very elements that make the work so powerful--its lively iconography and its illusionism--have long been decried by critics for their apparent illegibility and lack of decorum. In the first book-length study of these frescoes in English, Carolyn Smyth counters such negative criticism by taking into account the viewer's in situ experience of the frescoes. In so doing, she offers a new reading that explores the artist's knowing use of figural perspective, the architectural and liturgical context, and the religious significance of the theme. Aided by new photographs of the fresco, taken by Ralph Lieberman, Smyth leads the reader from the door of the cathedral to the apse, in order to examine the lay worshipper's experience from a series of partial views in the nave and the contrasting vistas of the clergy in the presbytery. As each of these separately revealed sequences of the cycle is discussed, new elements appear and are interpreted. The gestures, figural relationships, activities, and attributes visible from each viewpoint convey specific meanings that reveal, too, the most relevant aspect of the Assumption theme for the participant below. Not only the spatial communicativeness of the painting but also the affective warmth of Correggio's style are seen as means to celebrate Mary's redemptive role and its implications for the Christian audience.
Correggio at Parma
Author: Selwyn BrintonCorreggio
Author: David EkserdjianPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300072996
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
This beautifully illustrated book is the first full-scale chronological and critical account of the paintings and drawings of Correggio (1489-1534)--a genius of the Italian Renaissance. The author places the artist in the context of 16th-century Italy and his isolation from fellow artists of the period, examines his particular creative process, and sheds new light on Correggio's patrons. 200 color and 50 b&w illustrations.
Frescoes in Parma by Correggio
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Languages : en
Pages :
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The Web Gallery of Art highlights the Italian painter Antonio Allegri (1494-1534), who was known as Correggio. The Web Gallery presents a biographical sketch of Correggio, as well as images, descriptions, and critiques of frescoes with a Christian theme that he painted in the Cathedral, the Church of San Giovanni Evangelista, the Nunnery of Saint Paul, and the National Gallery in Parma, Italy.
Correggio at Parm
Author: Selwyn John Curwen BrintonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781436814454
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
The Renaissance in Italian Art: Correggio at Parma
Author: Selwyn BrintonPublisher:
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Category : Art, Italian
Languages : en
Pages : 130
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Correggio and Parmigianino
Author: Carmen BambachPublisher:
ISBN: 9780714126289
Category : Dessin de la Renaissance - Expositions
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Bringing together works from numerous important collections on both sides of the Atlantic, this catalogue presents a broad survey of Correggio and Parmigianino, with all the drawings illustrated in colour.
Correggio at Parma; Being Part V of the Renaissance in Italian Art, and Containing a Separate Analysis of Artists and Their Works in Sculpture and Pai
Author: Selwyn BrintonPublisher: Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN: 9781230181585
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ...thought of something more uplifted and divine than common life affords; while in the pendentives he paints the four Evangelists and the four Fathers of the Church (v. Anal.) more on the lines of accepted treatment, and each distinguished by their respective symbols. Yet even here his vagrant fancy finds a method of escape in the delicious boy angels who sport among the clouds on which the saints are seated, and laugh at one another in roguish mirth, that even their serious service cannot quite restrain. The Coronation of the Virgin by Allegri, painted at the same time, was most unfortunately and very barbarously destroyed by its Benedictine possessors in the subsequent enlargement of the church, being replaced by an inferior copy of the original by Cesare Aretusi. Our records of this priceless fresco are only the copy just mentioned, those by the Caracci of the angels' heads and of the central group, the master's own drawings (especially the study for "Copiedfrom GROUP OF ANGEL FACES. parma Antonio Al/egri. GalLERY. the Virgin in the Musee du Louvre), some fragments of angels' heads in private collections (notably in that of Mr. Mond), and, lastly, the original central group of " Christ and the Virgin" (v. illustration) which was cut out of the fresco, and is still preserved in the Biblioteca Reale of Parma. But all these fascinating fragments only serve to intensify our loss. For they make it clear to us that this lost work was the connecting link--priceless to our study of Allegri's development--between his earlier and his later styles, between the restrained beauty of these frescoes of the Benedictine church, which we have just studied, and the riotous gladness, the exotic loveliness of those genii and soaring angels of...
Author: Corrado Ricci