Word: masaccio
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...left Japan before. They include such extraordinary objects as the sliding doors that Kanō Eitoku, aged 23, decorated with a design of a crane and a tree for the Jukō-in temple in Kyoto, circa 1566, a youthful achievement that invites comparison to the 25-year-old Masaccio's frescoes in Florence; one of the grandest specimens of calligraphic painting in Japanese history, Konoe Nobutada's Six Principles for the Composition of Poems; and a coarse, cracked Shigaraki water jar that is said to have belonged to no less a master than Sen no Riky...
...person in 10,000 would remember seeing on the museum wall years before. The chains of documentation for sales of art works are still remarkably weak. But sometimes a thief blunders and takes something unsalably famous. Siviero claims this is what happened in 1971, with the theft of Masaccio's Madonna with Child and Memling's Portrait of a Gentleman from Palazzo Vecchio in Florence. "The thieves found that even after two or three years they couldn't sell them, and we were able to recover them." He hopes that the fame of the Raphael...
...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...