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Antonello da Messina : Sicily's Renaissance master / Gioacchino Barbera ; with contributions by Keith Christiansen and Andrea Bayer.

Title
Antonello da Messina : Sicily's Renaissance master / Gioacchino Barbera ; with contributions by Keith Christiansen and Andrea Bayer.
Author
Barbera, Gioacchino.
Publication
New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art ; New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, 2005.

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Additional Authors
  • Antonello, da Messina, 1430?-1479.
  • Christiansen, Keith.
  • Bayer, Andrea.
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Description
56 p. : ill. (chiefly col.); 26 cm.
Summary
Antonello da Messina (ca. 1430 1479) was one of the most groundbreaking and influential painters of the quattrocento. No other Italian artist of the fifteenth-century responded in such a direct fashion to the great masters of Bruges and Brussels (including use of their oil technique), to the brilliant Provencal painters, and to the established giants of Italian art, such as Piero della Francesca and Mantegna. In so doing he created unique images with a harmonious and geometrical clarity, yet included exquisite descriptive passages. Although Antonello worked primarily in Sicily, his travels to Naples and Venice were influential to the development of his style, and where he in turn had an enormous impact on painting. Antonello da Messina: Sicily’s Renaissance Master includes an informative essay by Giaocchino Barbera and entries on seven works that will be seen for the first time in the United States as part of a focus exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, including Antonello’s masterpiece, the Virgin of the Annunciation from Palermo, whose haunting beauty has been compared to Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Exhibition catalogs
  • Exhibition catalogs.
Note
  • Catalog of an exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Dec. 13, 2005-Mar. 5, 2006.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 54-56).
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
The exalted art of Antonello da Messina (about 1430-1479) / Keith Christiansen -- The life and work of Antonello da Messina / Gioacchino Barbera -- The exhibition / Gioacchino Barbera, Andrea Bayer -- Checklist of other exhibited works -- Biographical note -- Participating museums in Sicily -- Selected bibliography.
ISBN
  • 1588391779 (pbk.)
  • 0300116489 (Yale University Press)
LCCN
^^2005030041
OCLC
62127808
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library