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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.

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

"Madonna and Saints"




Fra Angelico: Madonna and Saints, 1440
Background:
Commissioned by Cosimo de Medici for San Marco Altarpiece, Florence
Contains the Medici coat of arms (yellow with red dots) 
Kneeling Medici patron saints- Cosmas and Damian 
The Frame no longer survives
Style:
Continuous, illusionistic space; 
Systematic perspective
Grouped figures
Centralized, multi-figural composition (used a lot in latter part of 1400s)  
New Florentine Renaissance style.
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