Word: castagno
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...Siena declined in art and war, Florence grew great. Transition painter in Cleveland's show is Lorenzo Monaco, Siena-born, Florence-bred. He was followed by a virile stampede of topnotch Florentine painters : Filippo Lippi, Piero di Cosimo, Andrea del Castagno, Fra Angelico, Andrea del Sarto, all at Cleveland and all masters of form who had graduated from the childish mysticism of the Gothic. In Venice and Genoa, however, the Gothic spirit hung on a little longer in the magical paintings of Crivelli, Lotto, Magnasco and Strozzi. Lotto's Pieta is one of Cleveland's most striking...
...highlight of a loan exhibition of Renaissance portraits at the Knoedler Galleries. By Giovanni Bellini, it is the property of Lord Duveen of Millbank. There were plenty of other masterpieces to remind the public of the treasury of Old Masters still in private hands in Manhattan. Among them: Castagno's Portrait of a Young Man, lent by J. P. Morgan; another young man, by Botticelli, lent by Clarence Hungerford Mackay; Fouquet's John, Bastard of Orleans, lent by William Goldman...
...time in the world's history has the art of painting risen to greater heights than in the period known as the Italian Renaissance; in no place was it more assiduously practiced than in Florence. Here lived and worked such men as Fra Angellco, Castagno, Venocchio, Fra Filippo Lippi, Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo. Andrea del Sarto names that are above all others in the art of painting. At 11 o'clock this morning, in the New Fogg Museum, Professor Edgell will discuss the lives and works of the earlier members of the Florentine School...