Word: uccello
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...sight was so much more beautiful than all those dry, thin abstractions inside the gallery. It made me want to paint the richness we can see and feel." He went to Italy, where the Renaissance had spread its richness across acres of church and palace walls. Inspired by Giotto, Uccello and Andrea del Castagno, he resolved to paint, as they had, for the millions: "I stick to my idea of a clear, firm, simple and precise art that everyone can understand...
...embellish the city, its churches and palaces he drew on the talents of Brunelleschi, Donatello, Fra Lippo Lippi, Uccello, Luca della Robbia. The great monument to his ideal, a marriage between humanism and religion, was the San Marco convent, which Cosimo prevailed upon Pope Eugenius IV to transfer from the Sylvetrines to the Dominican Observants. Cosimo ordered his favorite architect Michelozzo to repair the building, richly endowed it with 400 rare manuscripts and classic statues of Venus and Apollo. To do the frescoes, Cosimo called on the great Dominican painter Fra Angelico...
...make a new start, Rivera went to Italy, studied the murals of Giotto, Uccello and Andrea del Castagno...
...Uccello and the Early Florentine Scientists," Professor Edgell. Robinson Hall, Fine Arts...
...special loan exhibition of rare and valuable Italian paintings will be opened at the Fogg Art Museum today, and will last for two weeks. Among the pictures are an Umbrian Madonna by Lorenzo di San Severino; a profile portrait by Paolo Uccello; a picture of the Madonna and Child by Fra Angelico; an unfinished Madonna by Pinturicchio; a head of St. Catharine; a picture attributed to Perugino and some pictures representing the early Florentine, Sienese and Venetian schools...