Art: A History of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture, Volume 2Prentice-Hall, 1976 - Art |
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... shapes . In the Ospedale degli Innocenti ( Foundling Hospital ) , started in 1419 ( fig . 22 ) , Brunelleschi had a major oppor- tunity to translate his knowledge of ancient architecture into fifteenth - century terms . The building ...
... shapes . In the Ospedale degli Innocenti ( Foundling Hospital ) , started in 1419 ( fig . 22 ) , Brunelleschi had a major oppor- tunity to translate his knowledge of ancient architecture into fifteenth - century terms . The building ...
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... shapes , but the intensity of feeling that drives the freely associated shapes is pure Kandinsky . The painting is a kind of celestial explosion in which we seem to be present at the formation of new astronomical configurations . From ...
... shapes , but the intensity of feeling that drives the freely associated shapes is pure Kandinsky . The painting is a kind of celestial explosion in which we seem to be present at the formation of new astronomical configurations . From ...
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... shapes to elemental forms of universal beauty . " What is real , " he said , " is not the external form but the essence of things , " and this essence he found in subtle shapes of deceptive simplicity , approaching those of the egg ...
... shapes to elemental forms of universal beauty . " What is real , " he said , " is not the external form but the essence of things , " and this essence he found in subtle shapes of deceptive simplicity , approaching those of the egg ...
Contents
PROLOGUE | 9 |
The Early Renaissance in Northern | 70 |
The High Renaissance in Florence | 117 |
Copyright | |
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