| Description |
ix, 310 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm |
| Contents |
Pt. 1. Essays on Offner. I. Richard Offner: The Unmaking of a Connoisseur / Andrew Ladis. II. Richard Offner and the Ineffable: A Problem in Connoisseurship / Hayden B. J. Maginnis. III. Glimpses of Richard Offner / Craig Hugh Smyth -- Pt. 2. Essays by Offner. 1. An Early Florentine Dossal. 2. Giotto, non-Giotto. 3. The Shop of Pacino di Bonaguida. 4. Jacopo del Casentino. 5. The Master of the Fogg Pieta. 6. An Archangel by Bernardo Daddi. 7. Four Panels, a Fresco and a Problem. 8. Nardo di Cione. 9. Niccolo di Tommaso and the Rinuccini Master. 10. The Panels of Antonio Veneziano. 11. A Saint Jerome by Masolino. 12. Light on Masaccio's Classicism. 13. The Unique Portrait by Andrea del Castagno. 14. Italian Pictures at the New-York Historical Society and Elsewhere -- Bibliography of Richard Offner's Published Writings |
| Summary |
"A Discerning Eye is an anthology of some of the finest and most lasting essays by a great critic-historian of Early Italian painting, Richard Offner. Its contents span the Florentine fourteenth century and thus compose a kind of portrait album of some of its most notable painters between the Gothic and Renaissance eras, from the Magdalen Master in the thirteenth century to Masaccio in the early fifteenth. Each essay contains insights that are as incisive, fresh, and evocative today as when they were first written. The essays are illustrated using Offner's original photographs supplemented by new or additional photographs when dictated by the material or when the reader might be better helped to see the relationship between Offner's analytical prose and a given image."--BOOK JACKET |
| Analysis |
Geschichte 1300-1450 |
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Painting, Gothic Italy |
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Painting, Italian |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [303]-304) and index |
| Subject |
Painting, Gothic -- Italy.
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Painting, Italian.
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| Author |
Ladis, Andrew, 1949-2007.
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| LC no. |
97013867 |
| ISBN |
0271017473 (acid-free paper) |
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