From Filippo Lippi to Piero della Francesca: Fra Carnevale and the Making of a Renaissance Master - Hardcover

Christiansen, Keith

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300107161 ISBN 13: 9780300107166

Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2005

Synopsis

In this fascinating book, Fra Carnevale heretofore a mysterious, quasi-legendary figure emerges as a well-defined and pivotal artist in Renaissance Florence. In presenting their case, the authors take the reader from the workshop of Filippo Lippi in Florence to Urbino, capital of Federico da Montefeltro’s duchy in the region of the Marches. It was a road most memorably traveled by Piero della Francesca, who worked in Florence in 1439 and became Federico’s favorite artist. This book shows that other lesser known artists like Fra Carnevale also took the same path.

Among the many other artists painters and sculptors crucial to Fra Carnevale’s formation and discussed in this volume are Domenico Veneziano, Luca della Robbia, Pesellino, and Agostino di Duccio. Essays by Keith Christiansen, Andrea De Marchi, and Matteo Ceriana and a documentary appendix by Andrea Di Lorenzo and Matteo Mazzalupi transform our knowledge of this exciting moment in the history of Renaissance art.

About this title

Book Description:

In this fascinating book, the Florentine-trained painter-architect Fra Carnevale—until now a mysterious, quasi-legendary figure—emerges as a well-defined and pivotal artist at the court of Urbino. With hundreds of exquisite illustrations, many of little-known works, the book transforms our knowledge of an important chapter in the history of Renaissance art.

About the Author:

Keith Christiansen is Jayne Wrightsman Curator of Italian Painting at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

About this edition

• Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0300107161
• ISBN 13: 9780300107166
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 384