Word: guariento
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...only a screen and a simile for divine existence, angels like the one who blows the last trump across the wall of the llth century Italian Basilica of St. Angelo in Formis are stern, unbending, and (literally) otherworldly. But the host of warrior angels that a North Italian artist, Guariento, painted in 1344-45, minus their wings and with a few adjustments of costume, could have stepped from some 14th century condottiere's parade ground...
...primitive Italian paintings lent by Mr. A. Kingsley Porter, lecturer on the history of architecture at Yale are also on exhibition in the Fogg Museum. One is a picture of St. Michael by Byzantine-Gothte Guariento, 1338-68, of Padua, and the other of the Madonna and child in a dark architectural framework by Gregorio Schiavone, 1440-1470, a pupil of the Paduan Squarcione. The latter picture has been shown recently in the exhibition of Italian Primitives at the Kleinberger Galleries, New York...
There are now on exhibition at the Fogg Art Museum two primitive Italian paintings lent by Mr. A. Kingsley Porter, lecturer of architecture at Yale University. One of the pictures is a figure of St. Michael, by the Byzantine Gothic Guariento of Padua. The form is very similar to the figures of the angels of the Heavenly Host, by the same painter, in the Museum of Padua. The other picture is by a pupil of the Paduan Squarcione, Gregorio Schiavone; it was recently shown in the exhibition of Italian primitives at the Kleinberger galleries, New York. It represents a Madonna...
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