As one of the most innovative and enlightened painters of the early Italian Renaissance, Piero della Francesca knew how to capture the moment. He brought space, luminosity and unparalleled subtlety to painting, during an era that was aware it was forging epochal change. Piero in…
As one of the most innovative and enlightened painters of the early Italian Renaissance, Piero della Francesca knew how to capture the moment. He brought space, luminosity and unparalleled subtlety to painting, during an era that was aware it was forging epochal change. Piero in…
by Christiansen, Keith, Pinacoteca di Brera, Carnevale, Fra, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Exhibition From Filippo Lippi to Piero della Francesco, Milano, Exhibition From Filippo Lippi to Piero della Francesco, New York
by Christiansen, Keith, Pinacoteca di Brera, Carnevale, Fra, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Exhibition From Filippo Lippi to Piero della Francesca: Fra Carnevale and the Making of a Renaissance Master, Milano; New York, NY
"In 1934 the Italian government lifted restrictions governing the fabled Barberini Collection in Rome, making it possible for two intriguing fifteenth-century paintings to be put on the international art market. Within just two years both had been sold - one to The Metropolitan …
"In 1934 the Italian government lifted restrictions governing the fabled Barberini Collection in Rome, making it possible for two intriguing fifteenth-century paintings to be put on the international art market. Within just two years both had been sold - one to The Metropolitan …
Focusing on artwork by Lucio Fontana, Alberto Burri, and Piero Manzoni, Jaleh Mansoor demonstrates and reveals how abstract painting, especially the monochrome, broke with fascist-associated futurism and functioned as an index of social transition in postwar Italy. Mansoor refus…
Focusing on the work of Italian artists Lucio Fontana, Alberto Burri, and Piero Manzoni, Jaleh Mansoor demonstrates and reveals how abstract painting in post-WWII Italy critiqued the economic violence of the Marshall Plan and American hegemony, broke with fascist-associated futu…
Introduction: labor, (workers?) autonomy, (art) work -- The monochrome in the neocapitalist laboratory -- Lucio Fontana and the politics of the gesture -- Alberto Burri's plastics and the political aesthetics of opacity -- "We want to organicize disintegration"--Conclusion: "Rea…
