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| Vincenzo Catena Santa Cristina Altarpiece ca. 1520 panel Santa Maria Materdomini, Venice |
"For one must always remember that contemporary or near-contemporary reports can of course only measure the "naturalism" of an artistic representation against what has already been achieved, against what is conceivable (Boccaccio, for example, perceived Giotto's paintings, which for a later beholder are very much in a "style," as "deceptively true to life")."
– from Perspective as Symbolic Form by Erwin Panofsky, originally published 1924-25, translated into English by Christopher S. Wood (Zone Books, 1991)
"It is not easy to imagine what naturalism looked like in a pre-photographic world, what its hallmarks were, what qualities might have competed to earn that label."
– from A New History of Italian Renaissance Art by Stephen J. Campbell and Michael W. Cole (Thames & Hudson, 2012)
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| Andrea Brescianino Venus and Cupids ca. 1520-25 oil on canvas Galleria Borghese, Rome |
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| Palma il Vecchio Sacra Conversazione ca. 1520-25 oil on panel private collection |
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| Pordenone Judgment of Pilate (detail) 1520-21 fresco Cremona Cathedral |
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| Correggio Portrait of a man ca. 1520 oil on canvas Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid |
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| Dosso Dossi Aeneas and Achates on the Libyan Coast ca. 1520 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Dosso Dossi Apollo 1524 oil on canvas Galleria Borghese, Rome |
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| Dosso Dossi Stoning of Stephen ca. 1525 oil on canvas Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid |
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| Dosso Dossi Diana and Calisto ca. 1528 oil on canvas Galleria Borghese, Rome |
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| Lorenzo Lotto Madonna with St Catherine and St James (detail) 1527-28 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Lorenzo Lotto Legend of St Brigid 1523-24 fresco Oratorio Suardi, Trescore |
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| Andrea del Sarto The Last Supper 1520-25 fresco Convent of San Salvi, Florence |
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| Andrea del Sarto Virgin and Child with Six Saints (detail) ca. 1528 oil on panel Palazzo Pitti, Florence |
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| Jacopo Pontormo Portrait of a youth ca. 1525 oil on canvas Palazzo Mansi, Lucca |