THE TRIBUTE MONEY MASACCIO {Florentine School} DURING the middle years of the fifteenth century, every celebrated painter of Florence, from Andrea del Castagno to Leonardo and Michelangelo, came to the church of the Carmine to study Masaccio’s frescoes. Today the little chapel is poorly lighted; the colors of the painting have darkened under layers of …
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The Rout of San Romano by PAOLO UCCELLO THE love of the early Florentine painters for their craft, and their energy in pursuing it, move the modern mind to wonder and applause. These artists had no time for the minor graces of painting, for melting color, tender sentiment, and the charm of smooth textures-they conquered …
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The Birth of Venus by SANDRO BOTTICELLI {Florentine School} ALESSANDRO DI MARIANO FILIPEPI, the son of a struggling tanner, derived the name of Botticelli from his older brother and guardian who, for reasons of corpulency, was called “the little barrel.” Under the name of Botticelli, he won great fame as an artist, and a …
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Hercules and Nessus by ANTONIO POLLAIUOLO {Florentine School} THE tireless examination of the human body as a living organism and the search for realistic action, which distinguished Andrea del Castagno, were expedited by another intrepid Florentine, Antonio Pollaiuolo. Son of a poul terer, as his name indicates, Antonio became one of the most influential …
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Creation of Adam by MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI {Florentine School} MICHELANGELO is the lord almighty of the naked figure. His great nudes have no duplicates in nature: he painted them, technically, from his fund of knowl edge-from a study of the figure beginning in boyhood and carried forward by incessant industry, by anatomical dissections and struggles …
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David by ANDREA DEL CASTAGNO {Florentine School} FOR nearly four centuries, the name of Andrea del Castagno was blackened by the heinous charge of murder. It was believed, on the dubious authority of the old biographer, Vasari, that he assassinated his best friend and col league, Domenico Veneziano, in order to monopolize the secret …
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