The Brancacci Chapel - Hardcover

Baldini, Umberto; Casazza, Ornella

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0810931206 ISBN 13: 9780810931206

Publisher: Harry N Abrams Inc, 1992

Translated from the Italian by Lysa Hochroth with Marion L. Grayson. With 192 illustrations including 165 plates in full color. Includes bibliographical references and index. Bound in publisher's original cloth with the spine stamped in gilt.

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Language Notes:

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Italian

From Library Journal:

Occasionally an art book will appear that's been produced with such painstaking scholarship and attention to beauty that, in a sense, it becomes a work of art itself. This is such a book. In one volume, the authors thoroughly and conscientiously document the 15th-century frescoes by Masaccio, Masolino, and Filippino Lippi in Florence's Brancacci Chapel. The results amply demonstrate why so many artists since the late Renaissance have been so influenced by these walls. Each panel is reproduced in its entirety, with dozens of full-page details following; many of these details are actual-size reproductions, providing the reader with the ability to study line, color, and brushwork in a way not possible even at the chapel. The reader witnesses the reemergence of the revered paintings following a protracted restoration effort. The praiseworthy analytical essays describing each fresco panel are enhanced by wonderfully detailed appendixes explaining the chapel's history and the technical aspects of its restoration. Seldom does a book of this price seem such a bargain. Highly recommended.
- Douglas F. Smith, Oakland P.L., Cal.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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