by Diego Cuoghi
(translation: Daniela Cisi)

from Sprezzatura Website

 

“Meanwhile the average man had become progressively less able to recognize the subjects or understand the meaning of the works of art of the past. Fewer people had read the classics of Greek and Roman literature, and relatively few people read the Bible with the same diligence that their parents had done. It comes as a shock to an elderly man to find how many biblical references have become completely incomprehensible to the present generation.” Kenneth Clark ( introduction to "Dictionary of subjects and symbols in Art" by James Hall)

Contents

• Part 1

  • Paolo Ucello, La Tebaide

  • Carlo Crivelli, Annunciazione

  • Esaltation Of The Eucaristy (Detail of the Trinity) by Bonaventura Salimbeni

• Part 2

  • Crucifixion - Svetitskhoveli Cathedral, Mtskheta, Georgia

  • Crucifixion - Visoki Decani Monastery, Kosovo

  • Arte bizantina, Trasfigurazione di Cristo

• Part 3

  • Battesimo di Cristo di Aert De Gelder

  • Madonna Con Bambino di Carlo Crivelli

• Part 4

  • Le Marie al Sepolcro

  • Nativita - di Bernardino di Betto, detto il Pinturicchio

  • Vergine e Infante con S.Benoit

• Part 5

  • Madonna and Child with the Infant Saint John - Attributed to Sebastiano Mainardi or Jacopo del Sellaio

• Part 6

  • Il Miracolo della neve - Masolino da Panicale

  • Arianna e Bacco - Tiziano Vecellio

  • Tomba di Ptahhotep

• Part 7

  • Gettone con iscrizione "OPPORTVNVS ADEST"

  • Illustrazione da "Le Livre Des Bonnes Moeurs" di Jacques Legrand, circa 1490

• Part 8

  • La Tentura De La Vie De La Vierge

  • Mose Riceve La Tavole Della Legge

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