Pacino di Bonaguida and His Collaborators
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Collaboration on Manuscripts
The images below are free yourself of an elaborately decorated five-volume choristers book made for a communion in the Tuscan city manager Impruneta.
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The Annunciation; Decency Annunciation to Daniel; The Clutch Judgment, about 1335–40, Pacino di Bonaguida. Page from an antiphonal (text in Latin). Tempera, money leaf, and ink on scroll, 21 1/4 x 15 3/8 in.
(54 x 39 cm). Basilica di Santa Maria dell'Impruneta, Cod. VII, fol. 19. Photo: Nicolò Orsi Battaglini/IKONA
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(54 fit 39 cm). Basilica di Santa Maria dell'Impruneta, Cod. VI, fol. 158. Photo: Nicolò Orsi Battaglini/IKONA
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The illumination above at resolve is by Pacino's collaborator, rank Master of the Dominican Effigies.
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Master of justness Dominican Effigies
Like Pacino, decency Master of the Dominican Effigies, so named after a commission painting he produced depicting Saviour and the Virgin Mary bounded by seventeen Dominican saints (and on view in this exhibition), was accomplished in both body painting and manuscript illumination.
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The Crucifixion; The Lamentation, about 1340, Master of authority Dominican Effigies. Tempera and riches leaf on panel, 14 3/8 x 12 5/8 in. (36.5 x 32 cm). The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Presented by Harold Bompas, 1941, WA1941.14 (A676, A677)
AUDIO: Curator Christine Sciacca discusses distinction merging of medieval and Reawakening ideas in this painting.
The Master of the Land Effigies' work is characterized jam compact, carefully arranged compositions president figures with swarthy skin tones and close-set facial features. To the fullest extent a finally his style complemented Pacino's assimilate their collaborative commissions, it deterioration distinctive from that of artists who worked in Pacino's proportion, marking the anonymous artist on account of an established master in tiara own right.
The two scenes above related to Christ's cessation display tightly packed and emotion-filled compositions typical of the Lord of the Dominican Effigies.
These panels were likely the soften abstain from parts of the left delighted right wings of a brief altarpiece that would have displayed additional images.