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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:a parallelogram, and three out of the four sides are coveredwith frescoes divided into twelve compartments, of whichfour are large and oblong, and the rest narrow and upright. The two frescoes immediately on each side as you enter represent—the one, Adam and Eve in Paradise, the other, their Expulsion from it. The rest of the paintings represent scenes from the Life of S. Peter, and the two exceptions are said to have been chosen with design, because of the legend that S. Peter was keeper of the gates of Paradise.It is perhaps no wonder that these frescoes, forming so important a feature in the progress of art, should have been the subject of prolonged and eager discussion, as to the exact share which may be attributed to each of the painters who were engaged upon them.The learned commentator on the latest edition of Vasari gives us the result of hiscareful sifting of the question to this effect, in assigningthe following to Masaccio :—(1) The Expulsion from Paradise.(2) The Tribute Money.(3) The Resuscitation of the King's Son (begun by Masaccio and finished by Filippino Lippi).(4) S. Peter " in Cathedra."The Expulsion From Paradise. By HA3ACCIO.et(5) The Infirm healed by the Shadow of SS. Peter cmd John.(6) S. Peter baptizing.(7) S. Peter distributing Alms to the PoorAmong the most notable of the series illustrating the life of S.Peter is—(1) The fresco representing S. Peter taking the Tribute Money out of the Mouth of the fish.2 A wonderful truthfulness is given in the treatment of S. Peter, whose face is dark from stooping over the fish. The surrounding apostles appear as if alive; the one on the extreme right of the central group is known to be the portrait of Ma- saccio himself, done from a looking-glass. It... ... Read more

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THIS 44 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Men Who Have Walked With God, by Sheldon Cheney. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 1564592685. ... Read more

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The frescoes of the Cappella Nuova in the Cathedral of Orvieto have fascinated visitors from Michelangelo to Freud and Czelow Milosz because of their dramatic portrayal of the end of the world and the Last Judgment. Creighton Gilbert s study draws on previously overlooked documents to explain the commissioning of this extraordinary cycle of paintings, begun by Fra Angelico in the early 1400s and completed a half-century later by Luca Signorelli. In contrast to most other art historians, who ascribe the iconographic and formal structure of the paintings to Signorelli, Gilbert contends that his predecessor, Fra Angelico, devised the entire program of decoration. Gilbert also situates the cycle in the contexts of liturgical practice, humanistic studies, and the rich body of texts and images shaping the Renaissance conception of the coming of the Antichrist and the world s final moments.How Fra Angelico and Signorelli Saw the End of the World examines every element in the Cappella Nuova's architecture and complex decoration, which not only represents the coming of the Antichrist, the end of the world, and the Last Judgment but also, on a high dado, features portraits of Dante and other poets, scenes from their texts, and sinuous grotesque ornament. Although Dante s likeness has long been recognized, Gilbert is the first scholar to establish that his great epic, The Divine Comedy, exerted a profound influence on the Chapel s iconographic program. ... Read more

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