Word: fabriano
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...Conference on the Gentile da Fabriano panel. Professor G. H. Edgell '09, Fogg Art Museum...
There is on exhibition at the Fogg Art Museum for a few days a painting on panel by Gentile de Fabriano, representing the Madonno, seated with the Christ-child. It is a singularly beautiful work by a rare master of the school now called "International," and it is hoped that it may be secured for the University. In 1876 it was exhibited in the Royal Academy. Its rich, deep reds and blues against a gold background make of it a striking bit of decoration, as well as a very great work...
Gentile de Fabriano is an artist of great repute at this period, and his personality is strongly impressed upon Venetian art. His most distinguished pupil was Bellini. The two Bellinis, father and son, lived and worked in Padua, and were influenced strongly by its art. Yet they are the real founders of Venetian art. Color is still predominant; hardness of line and statuesqueness of form melt away before its influence. Bellini attracts on account of his honest and earnest painting of saints and madonnas. His characters are dignified and possessed of angelic qualities. Truth and elegance mark his style...