{"id":5857,"date":"2016-08-31T22:01:51","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T21:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meilinbristiel.com\/leblogdemeilin\/?p=5857"},"modified":"2016-08-31T22:02:33","modified_gmt":"2016-08-31T21:02:33","slug":"frescoes-in-north-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meilinbristiel.com\/leblogdemeilin\/art\/frescoes-in-north-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"Frescoes in north Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"

After attending art history series with the Ecole du Louvre program, I was very keen on discovering the art pieces that were discussed during lectures. Thanks to the passion shared by lecturers, in particular Stefania Tullio Cataldo, it was a whole new way of rediscovering places we had visited years ago. I find frescoes very moving because the sense of belonging is quite different to a museum. Only trouble, is that they are usually quite high, so it is difficult to picture them properly.. but on the other hand they where designed to be viewed and appreciated form the ground<\/p>\n

To start with, thanks to Stefania, I made sure we didn’t miss the absolute masterpiece that is the Scrovegni Chapel, in Padua, where it seems that Giotto started a revolution in the early years of the XIVth century… \u00a0<\/p>\n

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In Verona’s Baptistery<\/p>\n

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In Verona’s Santa Anastasia<\/p>\n

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Santa Maria Novella, side chapel<\/p>\n

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Andrea da Bonaiuto, Spanish Chapel, Santa Maria Novella<\/p>\n

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I noticed the resurrection scene is often pictured in a very Tex Avery-esque way, with Jesus slamming a door\/stone slab on a poor devil who gets pathetically squeezed out and a couple of others nearby looking worried. Frescoes are full of those little details, it seems that painters had some really good sense of humour…<\/p>\n

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Frescoes also liked to include VIP of their time, kings, popes, rulers etc.. but also self portraits, fellow painters and poets… Dante seen here is a favourite<\/p>\n

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Masaccio, Trinidad, Santa Maria Novella, Firenze<\/p>\n

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Duccio, Palazzo Publico, Siena<\/p>\n

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Not only frescoes depict religious themes, they also have important political messages to get through:<\/p>\n

Lorenzetti, Good government allegory,\u00a0Palazzo Publico, Siena<\/p>\n

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Simone Martini, Guidoriccio da Fogliano,\u00a0Palazzo Publico, Siena<\/p>\n

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Simone Martini, Maesta,\u00a0Palazzo Publico, Siena<\/p>\n

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Fra Angelico in San Marco monastery, Firenze<\/p>\n

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Paolo Ucello, Story of Noah, Chiostro verde, Santa Maria Novella, now restored and shown inside of the refectory<\/p>\n

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Masaccio, Masolino and Filippo Lippi, Brancacci Chapel, Santa Maria del Carmine, Firenze<\/p>\n

Adam and Eve is a favourite, it seems ever so important to constantly remind people how it is all womens’ fault =-(<\/p>\n

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Kind of cool also to look the who’s who of Renaissance in the middle of the crowd..<\/p>\n

Masolino, Masaccio, x, Brunelleschi<\/p>\n

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Pollaiolo on the right, who looks a lot like Paul Smith..<\/p>\n

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Boticelli<\/p>\n

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Filippo Lippi<\/p>\n

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La cene de Dominico Ghirlandaio, San Marco, Firenze<\/p>\n

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Dominico Ghirlandaio, Tornabuoni Chapel, Santa Maria Novella (love this joyous and natural scene of the virgin nativity)<\/p>\n

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Library of Siena’s Duomo, frescoes by Pinturicchio<\/p>\n

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Beccafumi, Sala del consistorio, allegory of the Republican ideals: justice, love of motherland, and mutual indulgence. A highly political pice of art, destined to reaffirm Siena’s attachment to the Republic\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Rafael, School of Athen, Vatican<\/p>\n

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Michelangelo, Sixtine Chapel, Vatican<\/p>\n

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Vasari, Duomo’s cupola, Firenze<\/p>\n

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And so many decorative frescoes in every church a Palazzo, that it very much becomes a pain in the neck \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

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After attending art history series with the Ecole du Louvre program, I was very keen on discovering the art pieces that were discussed during lectures. Thanks to the passion shared by lecturers, in particular Stefania Tullio Cataldo, it was a whole new way of rediscovering places we had visited years ago. I find frescoes very […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[597,600,599],"class_list":["post-5857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","tag-frescoes","tag-italy","tag-renaissance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meilinbristiel.com\/leblogdemeilin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meilinbristiel.com\/leblogdemeilin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meilinbristiel.com\/leblogdemeilin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meilinbristiel.com\/leblogdemeilin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meilinbristiel.com\/leblogdemeilin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5857"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/meilinbristiel.com\/leblogdemeilin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5926,"href":"https:\/\/meilinbristiel.com\/leblogdemeilin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5857\/revisions\/5926"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meilinbristiel.com\/leblogdemeilin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meilinbristiel.com\/leblogdemeilin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meilinbristiel.com\/leblogdemeilin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meilinbristiel.com\/leblogdemeilin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}