Friday, December 16, 2016

Symmetrical Italian Art

Giovanni Antonio Amadeo
Façade
1473
Certosa di Pavia

"The most general law in nature is equity  the principle of balance and symmetry which guides the growth of forms along lines of greatest structural efficiency."

 Herbert Read (1893-1968)

Paolo Veronoese
Sala dell'Olimpo
1560-65
enfilade with trompe l'oeil frescoes
Villa Barbaro, Maser

Cesare Baglione
Grotesques
ca. 1588
fresco
Rocca Meli Lupi di Soragna

Paolo Uccello
Clock with heads of Prophets in roundels
1443
fresco
Duomo, Florence

Ambrogio Bergognone
St Ambrose enthroned with Saints
ca. 1514
oil on panel
Certosa di Pavia

Scarpagnino
Façade
1505-46
Palazzo Contarini delle Figure, Venice

Dosso Dossi
Ceiling
1530
fresco
Villa Imperiale, Pesaro

Michelangelo
Ceiling
1526-33
Medici Chapel
Sagrestia Nuova, San Lorenzo, Florence

Domenico Gargiulo
Lay Brothers' Choir
1640-42
fresco
Certosa di San Martino, Naples

Filippo Lippi
Annunciation
1437-39
tempera on panel
Frick Collection, New York

Domenico Valeriani
Ballroom
1731-33
fresco
Casina del Caccia, Stupinigi

Palma il Vecchio
St Barbara
1524-25
Santa Maria Formosa, Venice

Giovanni Antonio Fasolo
Central hall
1565-70
fresco
Villa Caldogno

Camillo Procaccini
Last Judgment
1585-87
fresco
San Prospero, Reggio Emilia

Agostino Tassi
Trompe l'oeil loggia with landscape views
1619-21
fresco
Palazzo Lancellotti, Rome