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...were dependent on membership in these guilds by 1293, and the guild was like a father watching over the education of his son: the guild supervised the artist's religion, educational apprenticeships, contracts and relationships to patrons, and even had the power of punishment. By the 1400s artists like Brunelleschi in Florence asserted freedom against the guilds...
...luminously translucent Seravezza marble becomes a public conversation between two old friends. This is appropriate, considering how deeply embedded Moore's work is in the Italian tradition of monumental form. To see his largest piece, the 18-foot high, 170-ton Square Form with Cut, 1969-70, against Brunelleschi's apricot-colored dome of Santa Maria del Fiore is to realize how completely Moore has conquered the problems of architectonic scale, and how little the basic forms that satisfy the desire for "monumentality" have changed in the intervening 600 years. To Moore, who first visited Florence...
Florence of full summer, blue sky and golden stones, with the lazy Arno flowing under and Brunelleschi's grand dome floating over all. A darkly handsome young Italian (George Hamilton) of good family falls suddenly, Mediterribly in love with the blonde beauty, and the girl falls instantly, Americandidly in love with him. What should the mother do? On the one hand, she longs to see her daughter married; on the other, she fears with good reason that the mental demands of marriage would be too much for her. Still, the girl is quite healthy in her feelings: innocent, loving...
From the days of the Medici, Florence has been a city of treasures that every eye could see. In one direction was a chapel by Michelangelo, in another a dome by Brunelleschi; here was a bronze door by Ghiberti, there a statue by Donatello. But these were only a part of Florence's great legacy...
...embellish the city, its churches and palaces he drew on the talents of Brunelleschi, Donatello, Fra Lippo Lippi, Uccello, Luca della Robbia. The great monument to his ideal, a marriage between humanism and religion, was the San Marco convent, which Cosimo prevailed upon Pope Eugenius IV to transfer from the Sylvetrines to the Dominican Observants. Cosimo ordered his favorite architect Michelozzo to repair the building, richly endowed it with 400 rare manuscripts and classic statues of Venus and Apollo. To do the frescoes, Cosimo called on the great Dominican painter Fra Angelico...