Author: Selwyn BrintonPublisher:
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Category : Art, Italian
Languages : en
Pages : 130
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The Renaissance in Italian Art: Correggio at Parma
Author: Selwyn BrintonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art, Italian
Languages : en
Pages : 130
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Correggio at Parm
Author: Selwyn John Curwen BrintonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781436814454
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Languages : en
Pages : 124
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Correggio at Parma
Author: Selwyn BrintonThe Renaissance in Italian Art
Author: Selwyn BrintonCorreggio 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
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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...
Correggio at Parma, Being Part 5 of the Renaissance in Italian Art ...
Author: Selwyn BrintonPublisher:
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Category : Art, Renaissance
Languages : en
Pages :
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Correggio at Parma
Author: Selwyn BrintonCorreggio at Parma, Vol. 5 of 9
Author: Selwyn BrintonPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780282643164
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 170
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Excerpt from Correggio at Parma, Vol. 5 of 9: Being Part V. Of "the Renaissance in Italian Art"; A Series in Nine Parts, Each Part Complete in Itself, Richly Illustrated, and With a Separate Analysis of Artists Mentioned and Their Works in Sculpture and Painting Leonello had been brought up Part IV.) under the tuition of the great Humanist, Guarino da Verona; and it was perhaps at his teacher's suggestion that he summoned to his Court from Verona Vittore Pisano, the painter and medallist. At the same Court were gathered the painters J scopo Bellini; the northerner, Roger van der Weyden, - perhaps also Piero della Francesca, whom we find at Ferrara under Duke Borso, and Mantegna, who may have painted the patron's portrait. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Correggio
Author: David EkserdjianPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300072996
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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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.
The Renaissance in Italian Art ...
Author: Selwyn BrintonPublisher:
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Category : Art, Italian
Languages : en
Pages : 134
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