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Forwarding a review from the Internet Scout Report that readers may find
interesting:
11. From Filippo Lippi to Piero della Francesca: Fra Carnevale and the
Making of a Renaissance Master
http://www.metmuseum.org/special/Carnevale/
This special Web feature from the Metropolitan Museum centers around two
fifteenth century paintings acquired by two US museums (the Metropolitan
and the Museum of Fine Arts Boston) from the Barberini Collection in
Rome in the 1930s, that have puzzled scholars for more than a century,
and have only recently been identified as the work of Giovanni di
Bartolomeo Corradini of Urbino, also known as Fra Carnevale. In addition
to investigating the mystery of Fra Carnevale, the Web feature also
examines the concepts of artistic identity, in contrast with the
Renaissance practice of artworks that issue from the studio of a named
artist, that are actually the work of many unnamed artists. To do this,
the feature is divided into three sections: "Filippo Lippi", 29 works by
Lippi and others trained in his workshop; "An Alternative Vision", seven
paintings by artists working within the studio system, but, similar to
Fra Carnevale's works, containing unusual elements; and "The Mystery of
Fra Carnevale", including the two panels, most likely parts of Fra
Carnevale's altarpiece for Santa Maria della Bella in Urbino, <i>The
Birth of the Virgin</i> and <i>The Presentation of the Virgin in the
Temple</i>, done in what has come to be recognized as Fra Carnevale's
style-paintings so full of architectural details that the figures seem
incidental to the architecture. [DS]
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