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In reply to the discussion: The Friday Afternoon Challenge for your beautiful minds: The Art of the Altarpiece! Part I. [View all]BainsBane
(53,031 posts)44. Also it's not in Italy
everything else is in Italy, I think.
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The Friday Afternoon Challenge for your beautiful minds: The Art of the Altarpiece! Part I. [View all]
CTyankee
Aug 2013
OP
You are so welcome! I'm so glad I can share these discoveries with folks here...
CTyankee
Aug 2013
#5
There are a number of depictions of black individuals in paintings done outside of Spain in the 16th
CTyankee
Aug 2013
#25
#4 is different from the others, as you can see. And in a different country whose style was quite
CTyankee
Aug 2013
#23
well, being from a different culture accounts for that. I think it is also a lot "earthier" and less
CTyankee
Aug 2013
#28
OK, here's the deal, jberryhill. This altarpiece was not created in Rome. Rome was prominent in this
CTyankee
Aug 2013
#70
You have to put this work by Piero in the context of the Black Death. Piero was an early Italain
CTyankee
Aug 2013
#77
No, I told you that I locked all of them in the basement for this thread and they're pretty mad
CTyankee
Aug 2013
#114
My guess is you are referring to Bernardino of Siena, who was who was canonized five years afer this
CTyankee
Aug 2013
#88
Yes! Especially considering the subject of the painting to the LEFT of the altarpiece in 2.
CTyankee
Aug 2013
#93
Yep. My bad! I meant that the painting to the left could lead one to the Carracci since Caravaggio
CTyankee
Aug 2013
#111
You have an excellent eye for art. You seem to "get" the essence of the picture...
CTyankee
Aug 2013
#117
many former Cathlolics remember scenes such as these from childhood depictions. I was brought
CTyankee
Aug 2013
#92
I wonder if she had any idea that his model for the Madonna was his mistress, Margharita
CTyankee
Aug 2013
#112
Funny you picked up on that...but, no, technically he is High Renaissance. However, that era
CTyankee
Aug 2013
#90
Actually, I DID do a preliminary search for analysis on that work but came up with nada.
CTyankee
Aug 2013
#138
Yes! It is in the Santa Trinita Church in Florence. It stopped me dead in my tracks when I
CTyankee
Aug 2013
#68
Searching the title led to an interesting page on artists including themselves in their works
pinboy3niner
Aug 2013
#127
Thanks, most of them aren't that hot looking except for Ghirlandaio and he was really hot!
CTyankee
Aug 2013
#130
No. It is not the Transfiguration by Raphael. It is of the same general era, however, so they are
CTyankee
Aug 2013
#66
Don't draw the elaborate holy stuff anymore with the flying cherubs and goo-gaws
calimary
Aug 2013
#135