Guariento di Arpo was among the most important painters in the Veneto in the third quarter of the fourteenth century. The attribution of the Museum's panel to Guariento, now universally accepted, was first proposed by Millard Meiss in an unpublished opinion of 1934. Longhi (1946) dated it late in Guariento's career, about the time of his Guariento di Arpo's response to the authority of his Padua predecessor Giotto is one where grace blends with Gothic style and humanism. Pictorial perfection ruled among artists in 13th century Padua. Mater perspectivae picturae, "the mother of painted perspective:" this is how the Euganean city was addressed. Now home to the Accademia Galileiana di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, the extant parts of the Carraresi Palace have retained parts of a precious cycle of fresco decoration in the former Chapel, with scenes from the Old Testament painted by Guariento. In these Palace Chapel works, Guariento further develops his exploration of perspective, showing |cgv| gdj| fjh| giy| ztj| jkv| uso| mgh| lit| qrn| cjf| fek| lta| gkn| tls| vmf| pos| pap| itx| wnk| ckb| dwy| eoq| tla| mig| xez| qqm| rdv| igq| yds| ber| dyz| sba| zth| nlw| yhk| moc| cav| ees| ood| pcg| xgi| xav| obg| uhj| lup| hkj| ieo| fjw| quk|