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This blog is an art history experiment for our Italian Renaissance travel course. We hope that you, our visitors, will not only take some time to read about what we are studying, but will ALSO feel free to make comments or ask us questions...especially after we see (most of) these things in person. As we travel, we will offer personal reflections on our experiences. After we fly out on the 17th, follow us as we visit Rome (May 18-20), Florence (20-24), and Venice (24-25). We return on Thursday, May 26...just in time for the holiday weekend.

Monday, May 9, 2011

Adoration of the Magi, Gentile da Fabriano

The Artist
  • non-Tuscan
  • worked in Venice, Brescia, Florence, Siena, Orvieto, and Rome
  • "master of naturalistic landscape and atmospheric effects"
The Work
  • Commissioned by Palla Strozzi for family burial chapel in Santa Tinita
  • Center - visiting Magi and attendants
  • Top - Father blessing, scenes of annunciation on either side
  • Predella - Nativity, Flight into Egypt, Presentation in the Temple
  • Arches - journey of Magi to Bethlehem
  • Gothic frame
  • influenced by Lorenzetti's Good Government 
Predella Scenes 
  • First Italian example of atmosphere and light in sky!
  • First Italian to depict reflected light/shadows from a consistent, identifiable source 
  • First Italian natural, daytime sky (also did night scenes) 
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