From Filippo Lippi to Piero della Francesca : Fra Carnevale and the making of a Renaissance master
"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
Print Book, English, ©2005
Metropolitan Museum of Art ; Edizioni Olivares ; Yale University Press, New York, Milan, New Haven, ©2005
Exhibition catalogues
384 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
9781588391421, 9781588391438, 9780300107166, 1588391426, 1588391434, 0300107161
57208766
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
Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan, Oct. 13, 2004-Jan. 9, 2005 and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Feb. 1-May 1, 2005