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The Madonna and Child in Majesty Surrounded by Angels, detail

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Description: The Traveling Artist in the Italian Renaissance: Geography, Mobility, and Style
Vasari concludes the preface by announcing, “Now the time has come for the life of Giovanni Cimabue; who, as was said, gave the beginning to the new way of painting.” This proclamation promises much to the reader. We might expect an account of how invasive mobility and styles will be vanquished, how the Tuscan air will restore the visual arts to their former glory. Such a confrontation, by consequence, would present and legitimize a genealogy of native artists quarantined from the foreign. Just …
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.54-80
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00160.006

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