An unusually moral story of the classical gods; superb paintings by Rubens, Rembrandt, Elsheimer, and others.
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Looking at the stories shown in the main paintings of the Brancacci Chapel, Florence.
More myths in a single painting than you’ll see anywhere else. But do they come together to form another narrative?
Vasari praised Masaccio’s fresco, then six years later painted over parts of it, and put his altarpiece in front, obscuring it for nearly 300 years.
His final frescoes were an inspiration to Michelangelo and others in the Renaissance, and include one of the greatest paintings in Europe.
The first few years of his short career, in which he modelled faces and clothes to bring volume, and started perspective projection.
The importance of perspective in Western painting is hotly debated, but there is no doubt that is has brought about very visible change.
In 1996, QuickTime had no serious competition, was very cross-platform, elegant, and highly practical. Yet now it is dying.
The complete narrative shown in ten paintings. Or did he miss the whole purpose of the story after all?
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