Gill, Meredith (2014) The Carrara Among the Angels in Trecento Padua. In: Venice and the Veneto during the Renaissance: the Legacy of Benjamin Kohl. Reti Medievali E-Book (21). Firenze University Press, Firenze, pp. 367-383. ISBN 978-88-6655-663-3
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Abstract
In the 1350s, the Paduan painter, Guariento di Arpo, completed an ambitious decorative scheme for the palatine chapel of the Reggia, the seat of Padua’s ruling dynasty, the Carrara. On the chapel’s walls, the artist depicted two tiers of subjects in fresco drawn from Scripture. Along with these, in a sequence of over thirty panel paintings, he portrayed a celestial vision: the Virgin and Child accompanied by Four Evangelists, surrounded by the hierarchies of angels – all with extraordinary coloristic effect. The program is a milestone in the artist’s career, expressing not only his debt to fourteenth-century Venetian works and Byzantine models, but also a newfound maturity prophetic of the artist’s celebrated (mainly lost) Paradise for Venice’s Palazzo Ducale (1365-1368). In this essay, I reconstruct this distinctive program, and connect it to Carrara identity and the family’s ambitions for Padua.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Additional Information: | Nella sezione: "Society, Religion and Art". - This essay is drawn book "Angels and the Order of Heaven in Medieval and Renaissance Italy", Cambridge, 2014. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Middle Ages; 14th century; Padua; Art; Paintings; Iconography; Patronage; Guariento di Arpo; Carrara family |
| Subjects: | D History General and Old World > D History (General) > D111 Medieval History |
| Depositing User: | dr Vincenzo De Luise |
| Date Deposited: | 13 Apr 2019 14:15 |
| Last Modified: | 06 Oct 2024 13:10 |
| URI: | http://www.rmoa.unina.it/id/eprint/5011 |
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