Reconstructing the Renaissance: Saint James Freeing Hermogenes by Fra Angelico - Couverture souple

Kanter, Laurence

 
9780300121360: Reconstructing the Renaissance: Saint James Freeing Hermogenes by Fra Angelico
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0300121369 ISBN 13 : 9780300121360
Editeur : Yale University Press, 2008

Synopsis

Saint James Freeing Hermogenes, an important painting by one of the world’s most beloved Renaissance artists, was privately owned and rarely seen until two decades ago, when it was acquired by the Kimbell Art Museum. Now an eminent authority reviews previous studies on this beautiful Fra Angelico painting and draws on new technical and archival research to provide a more precise reconstruction of its original format and context. 

 

In analyzing this painting, Laurence Kanter reexamines and confirms Fra Angelico’s status as a pioneer of the new representational style championed in Florence in the early fifteenth century by Brunelleschi, Masaccio, and Donatello, and he shows why he was one of the great artistic minds of his age. Kanter presents both detailed information for students and an introduction for the general reader to the methods and procedures of reconstructing and interpreting history when little contemporary written testimony survives. 

Distributed for the Kimbell Art Museum

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À propos de l?auteur

Laurence B. Kanter is the Lionel Goldfrank III Curator of Early European Art at the Yale University Art Gallery.

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Éditeur
Yale University Press
Date d'édition
2008
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0300121369
ISBN 13 
9780300121360
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
84
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Personne responsable
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