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The decoration of the Tornabuoni Chapel is Ghirlandaio’s eternal claim to fame.
A significant visual document on Renaissance contemporary life, fashion and hairstyles.
Two versions ‘The Finding of Moses’. One artist, Orazio Gentileschi.
One in Madrid,one in London.Both for royalty; the King of Spain & Queen of England.
Both testimony to a master of chiaroscuro, composition & colour placement.
The shimmering, lush fabrics are enough for me.
Gentle, serene, tender. Exquisite curves and volumetric forms.
Perhaps the most engaging of Mantegna’s ‘Madonna and Child’ paintings.
The most extraordinary Pietà.
Those unnaturally long arms, outstretched, in despair and surrender. The weight of that lifeless body. The crowded composition of dramatised figures.
It is, of course, the work of Rosso Fiorentino, that fiery redhead from Florence.
Meanwhile, in Flanders…
The extraordinary detail in a painting by the Flemish Master, Jan van Eyck.
In black and white, courtesy of Collins Publishing House, 1948.
*The Madonna with Chancellor Rolin
That pink coat.
Pontormo, of course.
*Museo Nazionale di Palazzo Mansi, Lucca
Rosso Fiorentino, a master of Florentine Mannerism.
Renegade, Revolutionary, ‘Redhead from Florence’.
And so utterly modern.
*The Deposition from the Cross, 1521
The extraordinary wings of an angel.
Giotto in Assisi, always illuminating and shining a light.
The more I look, the more I see.
The delicate modelling, the intricate brooch, the fabric detailing, the translucent halo and the dance of light weaving throughout.
Where technical skill meets visual poetry.
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