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Baptism of Christ

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Description: Baptism of Christ
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Description: The Power of Color: Five Centuries of European Painting
~~At the dawn of the Quattrocento, a Gothic coloring system matched the Christian culture. Abundant gold symbolized the celestial sphere; a white gesso ground enhanced the brilliance of the pigments bound in egg, which were used in their pure form to maximize their luminosity. As the humanist view gradually gained ground, Christian...
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.17-57
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00228.002
Description: The Sacred Image in the Age of Art: Titian, Tintoretto, Barocci, El Greco,...
In 1490, when Savonarola was summoned back to Florence at the behest of Pico della Mirandola and Lorenzo de’ Medici, he launched his fiery campaign against the luxury and materialism of the Florentines with threats of the imminent judgment of God...
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.41-63
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00155.005
Description: The Critical Historians of Art
OF THE critical writing discussed in this book, that of Heinrich Wölfflin is by far the most widely read. There have been repeated attempts by art historians to belittle or dissociate themselves from Wölfflin’s general position while following the procedures of his detailed critical analyses. No great discernment has been needed to recognise that Wölfflin’s formalism is seriously limited, that there is something strained about the way he yokes architecture and painting, and that his cyclic view …
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.98-116
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00131.010

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