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Explores the fascinating and complex decorative scheme painted by Giusto de Menabuoi, which fills the interior of the public baptistery commandeered to act as a family funerary chapel by Fina Buzzacarina,...
Professor John White compares the history and pictorial significance of this panel painting to the similarly sized ‘Ognissanti Madonna’ by Giotto. Dr Alfio del Serra, who restored both works, examines...
Analyses the function and design of the Palazzo Pubblico, or city hall, built to honour and beautify the independent city-state. The celebrated frescos by Simone Martini and Ambrogio Lorenzetti provide an...
Examines this rare example of a 14th-century funerary chapel which still retains its original components. Sited in the sacristy of Florence’s great Franciscan church, the frescoes, the panelled altarpiece,...
The chapter house of Santa Maria Novella in Florence, now known as the Spanish Chapel, contains an extraordinary fresco cycle by Andrea Bonaiuti. Dr Joanna Cannon explains some of the complex theological...
Series dealing with the history of European art. 1: The religious Italian art of the 13th and 14th centuries featuring Duccio, Sassetta, Pisanello and the Lorenzetti brothers. 2: a) 15th-century artists and...
Series surveying European and American art from the Renaissance to the early 20th century. Each part concludes with a brief visual quiz.
Discusses Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne’ (c1510), in terms of the painting itself, the painter, and a palette of colour: pigment, composition and light effects. The figures...
Presents the work of Italian sculptor Donatello and looks at many of his major works, including ‘Madonna and Child’, Three modern-day sculptors - Henry Moore, Elisabeth Frink and Peter Rockwell -...
Looks at certain 15th-century panel paintings in the National Gallery, London, identifying them as three-dimensional objects rather than two-dimensional images, and examining how and why they were made. In...
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