Word: masaccio
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...restoration laboratories and storage areas and much of the work on the ground floor of the Uffizi Galleries was also destroyed. Among the works lost are some by Giotto, Botticelli, Filippo Lippi, Masaccio and Simone Martin. The photo library and archives were completely destroyed as well, although 130,000 negatives--covered with oil and thought irretrievably lost -- are now in the process of restoration with the help of Harvard restorers...
...condemned of the sixth circle knew the eternal future and remembered the past but had no sense of their present horror. In the drama, they fulfill Goodman's ideals of stillness and deadly substance within a stagelike space that he derives from such of his idols as Masaccio, Velásquez and Rembrandt...
...been an unwritten law that an artist must look himself straight in the eye at least once in his lifetime and paint what he sees. This collection does not reproduce the artists' visions with particular distinction, but it is a comprehensive survey of the self-conscious art from Masaccio (1401-28) to Joan Miró and his grotesquely purple Self-Portrait of 1938. The lesson of the book is that a true painter always reveals more of himself than he knows-or perhaps wishes to. Rembrandt, the most prolific of all self-portraitists, paints himself at 60, his face...