From Filippo Lippi to Piero della Francesca
Subtitle: Fra Carnevale and the making of a Renaissance master
By: edited by Keith Christiansen.
Contributors: Christiansen, Keith.
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 3884
Subjects: Carnevale, -- fra, -- 15th cent. -- Exhibitions; Art, Renaissance -- Italy -- Exhibitions; Art, Italian -- 15th century -- Exhibitions
Genres: Exhibitions.
Work titles: Fra Carnevale. English.
Description: "In 1934 the Italian government lifted restrictions governing the fabled Barberini Collection in Rome, making it possible for two intriguing fifteenth-century paintings to be put on the international art market. Within just two years both had been sold - one to The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the other to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Neither their authorship nor their subjects were certain, but their ambitious depiction of architecture no less than their discursive, anecdotal approach to narration made them unique among Early Renaissance paintings. Who was their author? What was their function? How to explain their mastery of perspective and their sophisticated architectural settings? Building on over a century of scholarship as well as completely new archival information, this catalogue proposes answers to all three questions. In doing so, it examines the art of Florence in the 1440s and the work of, among others, Fra Filippo Lippi, Domenico Veneziano, Luca della Robbia, and Michelozzo."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: In search of Fra Carnevale, a "painter of high repute" / Emanuela Daffra; title: Florence: Filippo Lippi and Fra Carnevale / Keith Christiansen; title: Fra Carnevale, Urbino, and the Marches: an alternative view of the Renaissance / Andrea de Marchi; title: Fra Carnevale and the practice of architecture / Matteo Ceriana; title: Catalogue; title: Biographies; title: Documentary appendices; title: Documents in the Florentine archives / Andrea di Lorenzo; title: Documents in the Urbino archives / Matteo Mazzalupi; title: Documents in the Barberini archives / Livia Carloni; title: Technical essays; title: Observations on the technique and artistic culture of Fra Carnevale / Roberto Bellucci and Cecilia Frosinini; title: Carpentry and panel construction / Ciro Castelli and George Bisacca.