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Masaccio: Saint Andrew and The Pisa Altarpiece (Getty Museum Studies on Art) |  | Author: Eliot W. Rowlands
Publisher: Getty Publications
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Pages: 118
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Dimensions (in): 9.4 x 7.5 x 0.3
ISBN: 0892362863
Dewey Decimal Number: 709
EAN: 9780892362868
ASIN: 0892362863
Publication Date: September 25, 2003
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Ranked by many scholars as the greatest master of early Italian Renaissance painting, Masaccio (1401-1428) was the first artist to use effects of light to create three-dimensional images on a two-dimensional plane. This achievement, revolutionary in Masaccio's day, is one of the painter's significant contributions to art history.
This book explores Masaccio's accomplishment as epitomized by the multipaneled painting of which the Saint Andrew panel is thought to have once formed a part: the Pisa Altarpiece, one of the truly great polyptychs in the history of Italian Renaissance art, produced in 1426 for a chapel in the church of Santa Maria del Carmine, Pisa.
The text discusses Masaccio's short life and illustrious career; the commission for the altarpiece; its patron and program; the painting's original location; and the role that the church friars played in the actual commission. Finally, after examining the polyptych's individual panels, the book traces their subsequent history and recounts how art historians came to identify them.
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His lasting contribution to art history is documented December 7, 2003
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Masaccio: Saint Andrew And The Pisa Altarpiece by Eliot W. Rowlands (Senior Researcher, Wildenstein and Company, New York) reflects on the workings of Italian Renaissance artist Masaccio (1401-1428), who was the first artist to use light effects to create three-dimensional images on a two-dimensional plane. His lasting contribution to art history is documented and embraced with representations of Masaccio's classic works in black-and-white as well as in color. The paintings' religious themes, their histories, commissions, and locations today, as well as Masaccio's unfortunately brief life are all informatively discussed in this welcome contribution to Art History Studies reference and reading collections. Also very highly recommended is Eliot W. Rowlands earlier contribution to Art History Studies: The Collections Of The Nelson-atkins Museum Of Art I: Italian Painting, 1300-1800 (Nelson-Atkins Museum Bookstore; ASIN: 0942614259; $29.99).
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