Where Afghanistan's crossroads of cultures meet Jul 13, 2008
Artists include an impressive roster of 15th-, 16th-, and 17th-century masters: Botticelli, Jan van Eyck, Durer, Piero della Francesca, El Greco, Holbein, Raphael, and Titian. Paseo del Prado, 011-34-91-330-28-00, museodelprado. (Boston Globe)
Work Presumed to Be by Leonardo Rev... Jul 7, 2008
1465) by Piero della Francesca and the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection's Portrait of Giovanna Tornabuoni (1488) by Domenico Ghirlandaio, among others. Vezzosi conjectures that Leonardo's subject may have been Bianca Maria Sforza, the Milanese bride of (r. (Suite101.com)
In What World Museum Nov 12, 2007
"The Madonna with Canon van der Paele by Jan van Eyck In this painting (1436), the artist depicts exquisite brocades, silks, and furs in an extraordinarily lifelike way. It resides in Groeningemuseum, Bruges. The St. Lucy Altarpiece by Domenico Veneziano This panel (c. 1445) is Veneziano s most celebrated work. It hangs in the Uffizi, Florence. The Last Judgment by Rogier van der Weyden Burgundian chancellor Nicolas Rolin, one of the richest and most powerful men at the time, commissioned this... (Suite101.com)
We all live in an Antonioni world Aug 3, 2007
Antonioni was not only the great painter of the cataclysmic 1960s (yes, he had a sensibility like a Renaissance master's, such as his favorite, Piero della Francesca). He was a painter of. (Asia Times Online)
The Eclipse of Antonioni Aug 1, 2007
Antonioni was born in 1912 to a prosperous family in Ferrara, a city in northern Italy that was the stomping grounds for such artistic talents as Mantegna, Alberti, Pisanello, and Piero della Francesca. Small wonder that after studying economics at the University of Bologna, Antonioni became permanently devoted to visual art, as a film student and critic in Rome. (New York Sun)
Painting, mathematics, and the work of Piero della Francesca Jun 29, 2007
AREZZO, Italy: Not long after his death in October 1492, Piero della Francesca was already better remembered as a mathematician than as a painter ... The termination of this complex conservation program, and the fruits of the scholarly reassessment of Piero's life and times it helped stimulate, are being marked by "Piero della Francesca and the Italian Courts" at Arezzo's Museo Statale d'Arte Medievale e Moderna, with subsections at nearby Monterchi and Sansepolcro, which brings together the... (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Extreme Maths: Infinity - The Art of the Infinite Jun 2, 2007
The great Piero della Francesca wrote a book, "On the Divine Proportion", and in his paintings framed their parts and the whole in rectangles with these ratios. Leonardo da Vinci saw that tree branches, as they spiral up the trunk, are spaced in these proportions too. (FirstScience.com)
South of the border, pomo rules May 9, 2007
Piero della Francesca helped kickstart the Renaissance by using architecture to put humanity at the centre. Where he painted humanism's germ, though, Arkley gave us its decadent endgame. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Sol LeWitt, a Modern Master, Left a Vibrant Mark on the County Apr 13, 2007
"These were Piero della Francesca colors," Mr. Doyle said, referring to the Early Renaissance painter who loved geometry and to whose palette, he said, Mr. LeWitt gave an Umbrian cast. "[Mr. LeWitt] transported the rooms by the way he used the forms. It wasn't drastic or upsetting. It was very beautiful," he said of an artist whose early structures were created of white enamel and whose wall drawings, of which 1,200 were executed during his lifetime, extended across surfaces primarily in... (Litchfield County Times, CT)
Entr'acte: Artistic transcendence, and its counterpart Apr 13, 2007
With visual art, the legacy of Old Masters from Piero della Francesca to Rubens seems inseparable from religion. Yet while their accounts of the birth, life and death of Jesus were invariably painted for churches and monasteries, most of these works now hang in museums, presented and viewed as art rather than icons of faith. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Sol LeWitt, 78, sculptor and muralist Apr 10, 2007
LeWitt developed an intimate acquaintance with the murals of Piero della Francesca during a 1958 trip to Arezzo, Italy. He made numerous pen-and-ink drawings based on them, as well as studies of paintings by Botticelli, Velazquez, Goya, Rubens and Ingres. (Los Angeles Times)
- Jonathan Jones on his definitive list of 50 must-see masterpieces Dec 5, 2006
1 Piero della Francesca, The Baptism of Christ (1450s), National Gallery, London. Wonderful when it was various shades of gold; now it is cleaned it is fresh and luminous. (Guardian Unlimited)
Italian Renaissance comes alive... Aug 20, 2006
The renaissance art in Florence which began anew with the frescos and panel paintings of Masaccio, Piero della Francesca and Paolo Uccello enhanced the realism of their work through new techniques representing three-dimensional art. Then, at the turn of the 16th century, artists began to use new techniques of tone contrast - evident in many of Titian's portraits - and the chiaroscuro by Leonardo da Vinci and Giorgione. (Korea Herald, Korea)
