Friday, February 5, 2021

Quattrocento Combinations of Tempera and Oil Paint II

Fra Carnevale
Ideal City
ca. 1480-84
tempera and oil on panel
Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

Fra Carnevale
Ideal City (detail)
ca. 1480-84
tempera and oil on panel
Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

Fra Carnevale
Ideal City (detail)
ca. 1480-84
tempera and oil on panel
Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

"Possibly born in Urbino, Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini, called Fra Carnevale, is recorded as an assistant to Filippo Lippi in Florence between November 1445 and January 1446.  After 1449 Corradini is documented in Urbino; by this time he was a friar called Fra Bartolomeo, entrusted by his order to maintain contacts with the Florentine sculptors Maso di Bartolomeo and Luca della Robbia (whom we presume he knew) working for the convent of San Domenico in Urbino.  . . .  Fra Carnevale's few surviving works reveal very fine gifts as a painter as well as an interest in classical architecture.  . . .  He reveals an artistic vision based on the meticulous rendering of details from nature and the observation of effects of light on color, as well as a strenuous effort to translate these observations into a sophisticated and rigorously classical idiom."  

– from biographical notes at the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Fra Carnevale
The Crucifixion
ca. 1450-60
tempera and oil on panel
Galleria Nazionale delle Marche, Urbino

Piero della Francesca
Portraits of Federico da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino
and his consort Battista Sforza

ca. 1465-66
tempera and oil on panels
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

Piero della Francesca
The Flagellation
ca. 1455
tempera and oil on panel
Galleria Nazionale delle Marche, Urbino

Giovanni Bellini
Dead Christ supported by Angels
ca. 1465-70
tempera and oil on panel
National Gallery, London

Giovanni Bellini
Dead Christ supported by Angels (detail)
ca. 1465-70
tempera and oil on panel
National Gallery, London

Giovanni Bellini
Dead Christ supported by Angels
ca. 1473
tempera and oil on panel
Gemäldegalerie, Berlin

Gentile Bellini
Procession with the Relic of the True Cross in Piazza San Marco
1496
tempera and oil on panel
Gallerie dell' Accademia, Venice

Jacometto Veneziano
Portrait of a Boy
ca. 1475
tempera and oil on panel
National Gallery, London

"A brilliant miniature painter, Jacometto was also outstanding at portraits.  He was much influenced by the Sicilian painter Antonello da Messina, who worked in Venice in 1475-76.  Jacometto's portraits have a crystalline clarity, enhanced by the black background.  The distinctive hairstyle – a zazzera – was fashionable in Venice in the 1480s and 90s."  

– from curator's notes at the Metropolitan Museum, in reference to another Jacometto portrait

Cosmè Tura
Virgin and Child enthroned
with Musical Angels

(polyptych fragment)
ca. 1475
tempera and oil on panel
National Gallery, London

Cosmè Tura
Virgin and Child enthroned
with Musical Angels
 (detail)
ca. 1475
tempera and oil on panel
National Gallery, London

Cosmè Tura
Virgin and Child enthroned
with Musical Angels
 (detail)
ca. 1475
tempera and oil on panel
National Gallery, London

Cosmè Tura
Virgin and Child enthroned
with Musical Angels
 (detail)
ca. 1475
tempera and oil on panel
National Gallery, London