In 1934 the Italian government lifted restrictions governing the gabled 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 ...
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In 1934 the Italian government lifted restrictions governing the gabled 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. It then turns to the introduction of Renaissance style north of the Appenines, in the region of the Marches, and to the culture of the court at Urbino in the third quarter of the fifteenth century, dominated by its ruler, Federico da Montefeltro, the humanist-architect Leon Battista Alberti, and the sublime painter Piero della Francesca. [This book was originally published in 2005 and has gone out of print. This edition is a print-on-demand version of the original book.] Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Distributed by Yale University Press
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As New. Grey cloth with gold lettering; color pictorial dj with black lettering; 384 pp. with 47 color catalogue works and additional supplemental figures in color and bw; 347 total illustrations with 93 in full color; . English version of the catalogue published for the exhibition in Italy and the US; includes 4 critical essays, the catalogue works, and biographies; an extensive catalogue. Contents as follows: In search of Fra Carnevale, a "painter of high repute" / Emanuela Daffra--Florence: Filippo Lippi and Fra Carnevale / Keith Christiansen--Fra Carnevale, Urbino, and the Marches: an alternative view of the Renaissance / Andrea de Marchi--Fra Carnevale and the practice of architecture / Matteo Ceriana--Catalogue--Fra Carnevale in Florence--Fra Carnevale in Urbino and the Marches--Biographies--Documentary appendices--Documents in the Florentine archives / Andrea di Lorenzo--Documents in the Urbino archives / Matteo Mazzalupi--Documents in the Barberini archives / Livia Carloni--Technical essays--Observations on the technique and artistic culture of Fra Carnevale / Roberto Bellucci and Cecilia Frosinini--Carpentry and panel construction / Ciro Castelli and George Bisacca. "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.
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Near fine. With chapters by Emanuela Daffra, Keith Christiansen, Andrea De Marchi, and Matteo Ceriana. Well illustrated, including many full-page color plates. 384 pages, 4to, stiff pictorial wrappers. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, (2005). A near fine copy.
