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Andrea del Castagno

Andrea del Castagno Giovanni Boccaccio oil painting on canvas
Giovanni Boccaccio
Painting ID::  4756
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Andrea del Castagno Giovanni Boccaccio oil painting on canvas



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  Andrea del Castagno
  Italian c1421-1457 Andrea del Castagno Location Italian c1421-1457 Andrea del Castagno Location Italian painter. He was the most influential 15th-century Florentine master, after Masaccio, of the realistic rendering of the figure and the representation of the human body as a three-dimensional solid by means of contours. By translating into the terms of painting the statues of the Florentine sculptors Nanni di Banco and Donatello, Castagno set Florentine painting on a course dominated by line (the Florentine tradition of disegno), the effect of relief and the sculptural depiction of the figure that became its distinctive trait throughout the Italian Renaissance, a trend that culminated in the art of Michelangelo.
  Giovanni Boccaccio
  c. 1450 Fresco transferred to wood, 250 x 154 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

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