Word: conversazioneã
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...focus on the gradual progression from iconographical elements to a naturalist setting ultimately culminates into the Fogg Museum’s core acquisition for this exhibit—The “Sacra conversazione??(also known as “Virgin and Child with Saints”), a Venetian altarpiece by an unknown artist dating from 1515. The altarpiece depicts the Virgin and Child occupied in a sacred conversation with saints, a “sacra conversazione.” With the paintings soft colors and sense of space, its former attribution to Renaissance masters such as Bellini...
...Although the viewer would most likely expect the “sacra conversazione?? to be the altarpiece’s main attraction, the altarpiece’s exceptional background is surprisingly the cause of debate. Rather than coinciding an iconic religious background with the conventional religious imagery in the foreground, the artist unexpectedly copied a secular landscape from Guilio Campagnola’s print “Shepherds in a Landscape” as this altarpiece’s background. Rather than the conventional background of golden leaves and angels, the viewer instead finds a background of trees...
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