Word: medievales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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As the year declines towards its end, man, as far back as history records, has always hungered for imagery, the warm glow of fire, a reassuring star of hope. In the Christian world, the great theme around which this yearning centers is the story of the Nativity. No subject in...
But whoever the master, Fra Angelico was an apt pupil. His first Virgin and Child surpasses Monaco's in both draftsmanship and coloring. More important, Fra Angelico broke free from the rigid mold of medieval art; his Virgin is no longer two-dimensional, but a figure that turns in...
On March 18, 1455, Fra Angelico died at the age of 68. Until the last he was working on his murals in Rome, but it is clear that Fra Angelico, who had moved through the full cycle from medieval illuminations to the heroic architectural vision of the Renaissance, had done...
It was from this background, represented by Wolgemut in the woodcut and Schongauer in engraving, that the great transition figure of Albrecht Durer emerged. But the beauty of this exhibit is the opportunity to see the Germanic elements in his art, as well as his foreign innovations. It is clearly...
The North, unlike Italy had no classical roots to return to; at the same time its medieval experience had been more thorough, so that it was able to absorb the classical past more easily through the intermediary of Italian Quatrocento art than by reference to classical forms themselves. The result...