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| Fra Carnevale Ideal City ca. 1480-84 tempera and oil on panel Walters Art Museum, Baltimore |
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| Fra Carnevale Ideal City (detail) ca. 1480-84 tempera and oil on panel Walters Art Museum, Baltimore |
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| 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
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| Fra Carnevale The Crucifixion ca. 1450-60 tempera and oil on panel Galleria Nazionale delle Marche, Urbino |
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| 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 |
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| Piero della Francesca The Flagellation ca. 1455 tempera and oil on panel Galleria Nazionale delle Marche, Urbino |
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| Giovanni Bellini Dead Christ supported by Angels ca. 1465-70 tempera and oil on panel National Gallery, London |
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| Giovanni Bellini Dead Christ supported by Angels (detail) ca. 1465-70 tempera and oil on panel National Gallery, London |
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| Giovanni Bellini Dead Christ supported by Angels ca. 1473 tempera and oil on panel Gemäldegalerie, Berlin |
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| Gentile Bellini Procession with the Relic of the True Cross in Piazza San Marco 1496 tempera and oil on panel Gallerie dell' Accademia, Venice |
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| 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
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| Cosmè Tura Virgin and Child enthroned with Musical Angels (polyptych fragment) ca. 1475 tempera and oil on panel National Gallery, London |
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| Cosmè Tura Virgin and Child enthroned with Musical Angels (detail) ca. 1475 tempera and oil on panel National Gallery, London |
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| Cosmè Tura Virgin and Child enthroned with Musical Angels (detail) ca. 1475 tempera and oil on panel National Gallery, London |
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| Cosmè Tura Virgin and Child enthroned with Musical Angels (detail) ca. 1475 tempera and oil on panel National Gallery, London |