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The Collaboration of Niccolò Tegliacci and Luca Di Tommè
The Collaboration of Niccolô Tegliacci and Lúea di Tomme This page intentionally left blank J. PAUL GETTY MUSEUM Publication No. 5 THE COLLABORATION OF NICCOLÔ TEGLIACCI AND LUCA DI TOMMÈ BY SHERWOOD A. FEHM, JR. !973 Printed by Anderson, Ritchie & Simon Los Angeles, California THE COLLABORATION OF NICCOLO TEGLIACCI AND LUCA DI TOMMÈ The economic and religious revivals which occurred in various parts of Italy during the late Middle Ages brought with them a surge of .church building and decoration. Unlike the typically collective and frequently anonymous productions of the chan- tiers and ateliers north of the Alps which were often passed over by contemporary chroniclers of the period, artistic creativity in Italy during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries documents the emergence of distinct "schools" and personalities. Nowhere is this phenomenon more apparent than in Tuscany where indi- vidual artists achieved sufficient notoriety to appear in the writ- ings of their contemporaries. For example, Dante refers to the fame of the Florentine artist Giotto, and Petrarch speaks warmly of his Sienese painter friend Simone Martini. Information regarding specific artists is, however, often l^ck- ing or fragmentary. Our principal source for this period, The Lives of the Painters, Sculptors and Architects by Giorgio Vasari, was written more than two hundred years after Giotto's death. It provides something of what is now regarded as established fact often interspersed with folk tales and rumor. In spite of the enormous losses over the centuries, a large num- ber of paintings survived from the Dugento and Trecento. Many of these are from Central Italy, and a relatively small number ac- tually bear the signature of the artist who painted them. -
Cennino Cennini
Rudolf Kuhn Cennino Cennini Sein Verständnis dessen, was die Kunst in der Malerei sei, und seine Lehre vom Entwurfs- und vom Werkprozeß1 (Zuerst gedruckt in: Zeitschrift für Ästhetik und Allgemeine Kunstwissenschaft vol. 36, 1991, 104 – 153; die Seitenumbrüche dieser Druckausgabe sind in Klammern angegeben) Inhaltsverzeichnis Einleitung 3 I. Der Libro dell'Arte ist ein Lehrbuch der Kunst 4 1. Das Lehrbuch der Kunst enthält einen Lehrgang 5 2. Vom Inhalt des Lehrganges der Kunst und die Aufzählung der Aufgaben der Kunst in der Malerei 6 3. Die Länge der Ausbildung eines Künstlers 8 II. Storia und Componere 8 1. Storia 9 2. Componere 10 3. Lehrte Cennini, vorbereitend auf dem Papier zu entwerfen oder zeichnend auf dem Bildträger (Wand oder Tafel)? 12 3,1. Was ergibt sich aus seinem Lehrbuch der Kunst? 12 3,2. Und die erhaltenen Ureinfälle, Skizzen und abschließenden Reinzeichnungen? 14 4. Entwurfsprozess auf dem Bildträger 18 4,1. Der Entwurf auf der Wand 18 4,2. Der Entwurf auf der Tafel 20 5. Hell-dunkel und Farbe 21 5,1. Die sieben Farben 21 5,2. Die Abstufung (digradazione) der Farben sowie des Hell und Dunkels 22 6. Proportionen, Räumliche Verhältnisse, Perspektiven 26 6,1. Die Maßrechnung 26 6,2. Die Frage nach den Proportionen der Körper von Mann, Frau und Tier 27 1 Im Rahmen eines Akademiestipendiums der Stiftung Volkswagen konnte ich u.a. dieses Kapitel einer Abhandlungsfolge fertigstellen. Ich danke der Stiftung Volkswagen dafür sehr. 6,3. Die räumlichen Verhältnisse bei Figur und Storia 27 6,4. Die Perspektive 28 III. Studien 28 1. -
Entire Triptych
National Gallery of Art NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART ONLINE EDITIONS Italian Paintings of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries Agnolo Gaddi Florentine, c. 1350 - 1396 Madonna and Child with Saints Andrew, Benedict, Bernard, and Catherine of Alexandria with Angels [entire triptych] shortly before 1387 tempera on poplar panel left panel (overall): 197 × 80 cm (77 9/16 × 31 1/2 in.) middle panel (overall): 204 × 80 cm (80 5/16 × 31 1/2 in.) right panel (overall): 194.6 × 80 cm (76 5/8 × 31 1/2 in.) Inscription: left panel, across the bottom below the saints: S. ANDREAS AP[OSTO]L[U]S; S. BENEDICTUS ABBAS; left panel, on the book held by St. Benedict: AUSCU / LTA.O/ FILI.PR / ECEPTA / .MAGIS / [T]RI.ET.IN / CLINA.AUREM / CORDIS.T / UI[ET]A[D]MONITIONE / M.PII.PA / TRIS.LI / BENTE / R.EXCIP / E.ET.EF[FICACITER COMPLE] (Harken, O son, to the precepts of the master and incline the ear of your heart and willingly receive the admonition of the pious father and efficiently);[1] middle panel, across the bottom: AVE MARIA GRATIA PLENA DOMINUS [TECUM] (Hail, Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee; from Luke 1:28); middle panel, on the book held by the Redeemer in the gable: EGO SUM / A[ET] O PRINCI / PIU[M] [ET] FINIS / EGO SUM VI / A. VERITAS / [ET] VITA (I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, I am the way, the truth, and the life; from John 14:6; Revelations 22:13); right panel, across the bottom under the saints: S. -
Gaddi, Agnolo Florentine, C
National Gallery of Art NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART ONLINE EDITIONS Italian Thirteenth and Fourteenth Century Paintings Gaddi, Agnolo Florentine, c. 1350 - 1396 BIOGRAPHY Grandson of the painter Gaddo di Zanobi, and son of Taddeo Gaddi—disciple of Giotto (Florentine, c. 1265 - 1337) and one of the leading exponents of Florentine painting in the mid-fourteenth century—Agnolo probably was trained in his father’s shop, and by 1369 he must already have emerged as a recognized master in his own right. In that year he received payments together with a group of artists including Giovanni da Milano, Giottino, and his own brother Giovanni (also a painter but one whose works have not survived) for the now lost decoration in the palace of Pope Urban V in the Vatican.[1] His earliest works, including the triptych dated 1375 now in the Galleria Nazionale in Parma and the fresco fragments in the former monastery of San Domenico del Maglio in Florence, executed according to the documents in 1376,[2] are characterized by harsh color and rather crowded compositions; they are populated by figures of ponderous movement and massive physique, accentuated by the chiaroscuro by which they are modeled. In the early 1380s, evidently by then a well-affirmed artist, Agnolo obtained commissions of particular prestige in his native city: the designs for the sculptures to adorn the façade of the Loggia dei Lanzi; the frescoing of the Castellani Chapel in Santa Croce (stories of Saints Anthony Abbot, John the Baptist, John the Evangelist, and Nicholas); and the painting of an altarpiece probably intended for the church of San Miniato al Monte, now divided between the Contini-Bonacossi bequest in the Uffizi, Florence, and the Kisters collection in Kreuzlingen. -
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Twelve
National Gallery of Art NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART ONLINE EDITIONS Italian Thirteenth and Fourteenth Century Paintings Agnolo Gaddi Florentine, c. 1350 - 1396 Madonna and Child Enthroned with Twelve Angels, and with the Blessing Christ [middle panel] shortly before 1387 tempera on poplar panel overall: 204 × 80 cm (80 5/16 × 31 1/2 in.) Inscription: across the bottom: AVE MARIA GRATIA PLENA DOMINUS [TECUM] (Hail, Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee; from Luke 1:28); on the book held by the Redeemer in the gable: EGO SUM / A[ET] O PRINCI / PIU[M] [ET] FINIS / EGO SUM VI / A. VERITAS / [ET] VITA (I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, I am the way, the truth, and the life; from John 14:6; Revelations 22:13) Andrew W. Mellon Collection 1937.1.4.b ENTRY This panel is the central part of a triptych flanked by two laterals with paired saints ( Saint Andrew and Saint Benedict with the Archangel Gabriel [left panel] and Saint Bernard and Saint Catherine of Alexandria with the Virgin of the Annunciation [right panel]). All three panels are topped with similar triangular gables with a painted medallion in the center. The reduction of a five-part altarpiece into a simplified format with the external profile of a triptych may have been suggested to Florentine masters as a consequence of trends that appeared towards the end of the fourteenth century: a greater simplification in composition and a revival of elements of painting from the first half of the Trecento.[1] Agnolo Gaddi followed this trend in several of his works. -
Libro Dell'arte
UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 1 PANTHÉON-SORBONNE CENTRE DE RECHERCHE HiCSA (Histoire culturelle et sociale de l’art - EA 4100) CONTRIBUTION À UNE HISTOIRE TECHNOLOGIQUE DE L’ART Actes de journées d’étude de la composante de recherche Préservation des biens culturels sous la direction de Claire Betelu, Anne Servais, Cécile Parmentier TRUTH AND INTENTION IN THE LIBRO DELL’ARTE LARA BROECKE Pour citer cet article Lara Broecke, « Truth and intention in the Libro dell’Arte », dans Claire Betelu, Anne Servais, Cécile Parmentier (dir.), Contribution à une histoire technologique de l’art, actes de journées d’étude de la composante de recherche PBC, Paris, INHA, site de l’HiCSA, mis en ligne en septembre 2018, p. 56-67. TRUTH AND INTENTION IN THE LIBRO DELL’ARTE LARA BROECKE Résumé Cet article examine la question de la précision du Libro dell’Arte. En montrant que de nombreux objets d’art, contemporains à sa rédaction par Cennino, sont étroite- ment conformes aux descriptions présentées dans l’ouvrage, l’auteur soutient que celui-ci est, la plupart du temps, une source fidèle pour les techniques et les maté- riaux de son époque. Cependant, Cennino décrit des technologies spécifiques à différentes régions géographiques et aborde une gamme de disciplines plus vaste que celle relevant normalement de la compétence d’un seul praticien. L’auteur affirme donc que Cennino ne visait pas à présenter toutes les techniques et tous les matériaux qu’il connaissait mais ceux qu’il jugeait les meilleurs ou les plus inté- ressants. En rédigeant son Libro dell’Arte, son objectif n’était donc pas d’écrire un manuel d’atelier ou un livre de guilde. -
Conservation Research 1996/1997
Conservation Research 1996/1997 STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF ART • 57 • Monograph Series II Conservation Research 1996/1997 National Gallery of Art, Washington Distributed by the University Press of New England Hanover and London Editorial Board Distributed by the University Press of ROSS M. MERRILL, Chairman New England, 23 South Main Street, SHELLEY STURMAN Hanover, New Hampshire 03755 E. RENÉ DE LA RIE SHELLEY FLETCHER Abstracted and indexed in BHA (Bibliography of the History of Art) Managing Editor and Art Index CAROL LEHMAN ERON Conservation Research is a periodic Manuscript Editor publication of the National Gallery of Art, ANN HOFSTRA GROGG Washington. The primary objective of Conservation Research is to report regularly Editorial Coordinator on the research and technical studies pursued JANICE GRUVER by the conservation division of the National Gallery of Art Production Editor ULRIKE MILLS ISSN 0091-7338 ISBN 089468-264-4 Designer CAROL BEEHLER Cover: Kazimir Malevich, Vanity Case, detail, 1913, oil on wood. State Tretiakov Gallery, Copyright © 1997 Trustees of the National Moscow Gallery of Art, Washington All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced without the written permission of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 20565 This publication was produced by the Editors Office, National Gallery of Art, Washington Editor-in-Chief, Frances P. Smyth The type is Trump Medieval, set by Artech Graphics II, Inc., Baltimore, Maryland The text paper is 128 gsm Japanese matt Printed in China Contents 7 Preface ROSS -
The Late Trecento Fresco Decoration of the Palazzo Datini in Prato
THE LATE TRECENTO FRESCO DECORATION OF THE PALAZZO DATINI IN PRATO by Sara Catharine Ellis A thesis submitted to the Department of Art In conformity with the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts Queen‟s University Kingston, Ontario, Canada (October, 2010) Copyright © Sara Catharine Ellis, 2010 Abstract Francesco di Marco Datini (c. 1335-1410) left his native city of Prato, near Florence, in about 1350 to become a successful merchant in Avignon, France. He returned three decades later to decorate his newly built private residence in the historic center of Prato. Under his patronage, frescoes of sacred and secular subject matter were executed in the residence from 1389-95. The artists that have been concretely identified, or suggested, as working in the Palazzo Datini include: Arrigo di Niccolò, from Prato; minor painters Dino di Puccio, Jacopo d‟Agnolo, and Agnolo; Florentine artists Tommaso del Mazza, Bartolomeo di Bertozzo, and Pagolino d‟Ugolino; and the master artists Niccolò di Pietro Gerini and Agnolo Gaddi. Many of the original frescoes were uncovered during renovations of the 1950s. Those in the entry hall and ground floor rooms survive in varied condition. This recovery is significant because the survival of large scale private works of this kind in Italy is rare. Datini‟s legacy also comprises hundreds of ledgers, account books, and thousands of personal and business letters dating from 1363 to 1410. These are now contained in the Archivio Storico di Prato. Using the surviving visual and written material as a reference point, this thesis examines the contexts behind Datini‟s choices as patron.