Art: A History of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture, Volume 2Prentice-Hall, 1976 - Art |
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Page 16
... light , perhaps un- der the master's personal direction , in his frescoes in the Baroncelli Chapel of Santa Croce in Florence , probably dating from 1332-38 . In the fourteenth century natural light was always diffused and generalized ...
... light , perhaps un- der the master's personal direction , in his frescoes in the Baroncelli Chapel of Santa Croce in Florence , probably dating from 1332-38 . In the fourteenth century natural light was always diffused and generalized ...
Page 357
... light in establishing the existence of objects and determining their forms and colors , it had never oc- curred to Renaissance artists that light might also func- tion in the opposite way to deform , denature , or dissolve objects ...
... light in establishing the existence of objects and determining their forms and colors , it had never oc- curred to Renaissance artists that light might also func- tion in the opposite way to deform , denature , or dissolve objects ...
Page 486
... light itself . Gothic artists had in a sense worked with light in their stained glass windows , and - as we have seen - Bernini was a pioneer in this respect in arranging and shaping the concealed sources of light in his Ecstasy of ...
... light itself . Gothic artists had in a sense worked with light in their stained glass windows , and - as we have seen - Bernini was a pioneer in this respect in arranging and shaping the concealed sources of light in his Ecstasy of ...
Contents
PROLOGUE | 9 |
The Early Renaissance in Northern | 70 |
The High Renaissance in Florence | 117 |
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