Benozzo Gozzoli's Frescoes in the Palazzo Medici-Riccardi, Florence
Autor:
Cristina Acidini Luchinat
Editura:
Thames & Hudson
ISBN:
0500236917
Preţ magazin :
385 RON
Carte în limba:
engleză
Descriere:
The procession of the three Magi unfolds with a mixture of exotic, oriental splendor and stately, bourgeois respectability in the fresco cycle painted by Benozzo Gozzoli on the walls of the Medici family private chapel in Florence. Completed in 1459 and restored between 1988 and 1992, Gozzoli's popular frescoes set the divinely prophesied cavalcade of the Magi against a landscape strewn with allusions to the Last Judgment and contemporary Florence. Enlivened by dramatic juxtapositions of choirs of angels, hunting scenes, castles and Eden-like gardens with peacocks, the paintings incorporate 32 realistic portraits of Gozzoli's contemporaries, including his noble patrons, the Medici. Featuring 184 color plates with scores of close-ups, this lavish volume, edited by Italian art historian and restorationist Luchinat, includes scholarly essays on Gozzoli's iconography, his involvement in humanist circles and the recent restoration.
Format:
280 x 250 mm, 388 pp., 203 illus., 184 c., hardback
Anul apariţiei:
1994
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