1440s Paintings - The Battle of San Romano, Portrait of a Young Girl, Niccoline Chapel, the Triumph of Death, the Baptism of Christ (Paperback)

Chapters: The Battle of San Romano, Portrait of a Young Girl, Niccoline Chapel, the Triumph of Death, the Baptism of Christ, Portrait of Princess, Annunciation With Two Kneeling Donors, Annunciation (Lippi, Rome), Annunciation (Lippi, Munich). Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 32. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Detail of Niccolo da TolentinoThe Battle of San Romano is a set of three paintings by the Florentine painter Paolo Uccello depicting events that took place at the battle of San Romano in 1432. The paintings are in tempera on wooden panels, each over 3 metres long, and were commissioned sometime around 1356 by Cosimo de' Medici, to decorate the newly built Medici Palace. They are significant as revealing the development of linear perspective in early Italian Renaissance painting, and are unusual as a major secular commission. The paintings were much admired in the 15th century. They are now divided between three collections, the National Gallery, London, the Galleria degli Uffizi and the Musee du Louvre, Paris. The three paintings (from left to right) are: The Uffizi panel was probably designed to be the central painting of the triptych and is the only one signed by the artist. The sequence most widely agreed among art historians is: London, Uffizi, Louvre, although others have been proposed. They may represent different times of day: dawn (London), mid-day (Paris) and dusk (Uffizi) - the battle lasted eight hours. In the London painting, Niccolo da Tolentino, with his large gold and red patterned hat, is seen leading the Florentine cavalry. In the foreground, broken lances and a dead soldier are carefully aligned, so as to create an impression of perspective. The three paintings were designed to be hung high on three different walls of a room, and the perspective designed...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=7123211