Antonello Da Messina and His Workshop
Antonello Da Messina and His Workshop

Author: Thomas Skorupa

Publisher: Logos Verlag Berlin

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9783832539290

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Antonello da Messina (ca. 1430--1479) has long been famous for his mastery of the technique of oil painting, for his role in the dissemination of the Netherlandish style in northern Italy, and for introducing new artistic impulses in Venice in the mid-1470s. Following his premature death in 1479, his son Jacobello took over the workshop and, with three of his cousins, Antonio and Pietro de Saliba and Salvo d'Antonio, continued painting Antonello's compositions for a northern Italian audience from their Venice base for the next decade and a half. In the mid-1490s, they returned to Sicily, where they continued to paint in the master's style well into the sixteenth century. The workshop production is a true indication of the continuing positive reception of Antonello's work after the master's death. This study examines the four members of the workshop, drawing from the contracts, wills, records of payments, and paintings as source material to reconstruct the activity of these artists in both northern and southern Italy. The study focuses on the relationship between prototypes and copies during the workshop's Venetian period, with examinations of two series of small devotional paintings. The catalogue raisonne, which includes detailed entries of all known works by the four members of Antonello da Messina's workshop, is the first complete overview of this workshop's production. Thomas Skorupa studied art history, German literature, and comparative literature in New York and Berlin. He earned his doctorate at the Freie Universitat Berlin with this dissertation. He works as an editor in Berlin.

Antonello Da Messina
Antonello Da Messina

Author: Gioacchino Barbera

Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 58

ISBN-13: 0300116489

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This book on one of the most influential painters of the 15th century early Italian Renaissance comprises of an informative essay by the author plus entries on seven works that will be seen for the first time in the United States as part of a focus exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Italian Fifteenth- to Seventeenth-century Drawings
Italian Fifteenth- to Seventeenth-century Drawings

Author: Anna Forlani Tempesti

Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 9780870996061

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Perhaps more than any other collector of his generation in the United States, Robert Lehman was interested in acquiring early drawings. He made a great effort to add drawings to the collection of paintings, sculpture, ceramics, glass, and other objects that his father, Philip Lehman, had begun assembling. The 116 Italian drawings analyzed and discussed in this volume are among the more than 2,000 works of art from the collection now housed in the Robert Lehman Wing of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Robert Lehman's collection demonstrates the variety of drawings produced in Italy from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century, a period when the purposes and techniques of drawings, as well as the aims and abilities of the artist who made them, became increasingly sophisticated. The volume includes an elaborate design for an equestrian monument by Antonio Pollaiuolo, a magnificent study of a bear by Leonardo da Vinci, a cartoon by Luca Signorelli, a study for a vault fresco by Taddeo Zuccaro, and many other drawings that are among the best Italian examples to have survived from that era. Most types of drawings, in a wide variety of techniques, are represented—figure studies, grand compositions, landscapes, cartoons, modelli, and even sculptors' studies. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.

Italian Paintings of the Fifteenth Century
Italian Paintings of the Fifteenth Century

Author: National Gallery of Art (U.S.)

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780894683053

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The National Gallery of Art collection of Italian fifteenth-century paintings, the finest in any American museum, has not been published in its entirety since the 1979 Catalogue of Italian Paintings by Fern Rusk Shapley. Among the altarpieces, devotional works, portraits, and allegorical scenes are many world-famous masterpieces. In addition to Leonardo's Ginevra de' Benci and the Adoration of the Magi by Fra Angelico and Fra Filippo Lippi, paintings by Domenico Veneziano, Castagno, Sassetta, Mantegna, Giovanni Bellini, Perugino, Botticelli, and Ghirlandaio make this a book of major masters of the Renaissance.

Sicily
Sicily

Author: Jeremy Dummett

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2020-05-28

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 0755601904

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A guide to the fascinating and diverse history and culture of Sicily. The book includes key events, places and artists highlighted in wide-ranging articles presented in four parts: History, Cities, Ancient Sites and Artists. A rich tapestry emerges of an island that has experienced dramatic changes of fortune while becoming a melting-pot of cultural influences from the eastern Mediterranean, North Africa and mainland Italy. It also includes commentary on the monuments and works of art to be seen today, linking Sicily past and present. Follow the stories of Dionysius' castle, the foundation of the cathedral at Monreale, the Sicilian poets who invented the sonnet and the British merchants who made Marsala wine an international brand. Tour the big cities of Catania and Messina, the resorts of Taormina and Cefalù, and the baroque hilltowns of south-eastern Sicily. Explore the ancient sites, among them Segesta, Selinunte and Agrigento. Witness the originality of the island's culture through the profiles of eight artists, sculptors and architects from the Renaissance to the twentieth century including Antonello da Messina, Giacomo Serpotta and Renato Guttuso, as well as Caravaggio, who left some of his last masterpieces on the island. This book complements the author's previous work on Syracuse and Palermo, filling in gaps in the island's story, to form a comprehensive trilogy on Sicily.

Art and Faith in the Venetian World
Art and Faith in the Venetian World

Author: Catherine R. Puglisi

Publisher: Harvey Miller

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781912554294

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A study of Christ as Man of Sorrows in the Venetian world from the late Medieval through the Baroque era. Art and Faith in Venice is the first study of the Man of Sorrows in the art and culture of Venice and her dominions across three centuries. A subject imbued with deep spiritual and metaphorical significance, the image pervaded late-Medieval Europe but assumed in the Venetian world an unusually rich and long life. The book presents a biography, first tracing the transmission of the image as a vertical, half-length figure devoid of narrative from the Byzantine East c. 1275 and then exploring its gradual adaptation and diffusion across the Venetian state to a wide range of media, reaching from small manuscript illuminations to panel paintings, altarpieces, tombs and liturgical furnishings. Analyzing its nomenclature, visual form and layered meanings, the study demonstrates how this universal image played a prominent role responding to public and private devotions in the spiritual and cultural life of Venice and its larger political sphere of influence. Catherine Puglisi and William Barcham have written extensively on the Man of Sorrows and co-curated an exhibition on the subject in New York in 2011. Each also publishes separately, Puglisi on Caravaggio and Bolognese art, and Barcham on Venetian 18th-century painting.