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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.

Thursday, May 12, 2011

St. Lucy Altarpiece



•Domenico Veneziano (c.1410-1461)
•Painted about 1445-47
•Square format instead of polyptychs
•Gothic arches frame the throne
•Unusual color, thought to be painted with oil
•Red, green and white
•Colors of the Medici Family
•Traditional colors of Florentine Marble
•Scientific perspective in rendering of the floor
•Halos no longer perfect circles

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