Masaccio's Trinity / edited by Rona Goffen.
Contributor(s): Goffen, Rona
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BookSeries: Masterpieces of Western painting: Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1998Description: x, 166 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0521467098; 0521461502 .Subject(s): Masaccio, 1401-1428? Trinity | Masaccio, 1401-1428? -- Criticism and interpretation | Painting, Renaissance | Artists -- Italy -- BiographyDDC classification: 759.5 MAS
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending | 759.5 MAS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00055265 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Six contributors here examine one of the definitive paintings of the Italian Renaissance. Renowned for the grandeur of its characterisations, both sacred and mortal, for the perspectival illusion of its monumental architectural setting, and for its compelling depiction of a human skeleton, the fresco was famous from the time it was painted in the 1420s, and remembered despite its having been hidden from view for nearly two centuries. This 1998 volume considers the Trinity in its historical and spiritual contexts, its relation to the symbolism of the Trinity, and its liturgical function in the great Dominican church of Santa Maria Novella. Also emphasised are the extraordinary features of the painting, especially its system of spatial illusionism, its problematic state of conservation, and the conception of time and space that the artist masterfully visualised.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Introduction: Masaccio's Trinity and the Early Renaissance
- 1 The Florentine elite in the early fifteneenth century
- 2 Masaccio's 'Trinity' and the Letter to the Hebrews
- 3 Masaccio's Fresco technique and Problems of Conservation
- 4 The Perspective Construction of Masaccio's 'Trinity' Fresco and Medieval Astronomical Graphics
- 5 Time and timeless in Quattrocento painting
- 6 Masaccio's skeleton: Art and Anatomy in Renaissance Italy