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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Some tanning wear and marking due to age. Plates bright and vivid.. Year 1963. Hardcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> It is now well established after extensive research that there is but one Renaissance namely the Florentine; the Northern Renaissance was wrongly held to have been derived from late Paduan Gothic under the leadership of the shadowy Squarcione. This former belief has been replaced by an acknowledgment of the much earlier bonds that linked Florence with Venice. The contacts between the art of these cities and their artists can best be illustrated by the example at Venice of the Lamberti a family of sculptors who displayed typical Venetian industry from 1415 to 1435; of Paolo Uccello who came to the lake-city as a restorer of its traditional mosaics; of Filippo Lippi who decorated the Chapel of the Podest? in Padua and remained there during five of the most productive years of his life; and of the sculptors Niccolo Baroncelli and Giuliano Fiorentino who foreshadowed Donatello by ten years. Donatello himself was carried by Tuscany’s creative wave to Padua and staged until 1434. The new art first flourished on the mainland that faces Venice among a number of disciples of Donatello. Of these Niccolo Pizzolo deserves particular mention since it has been proved that Man-tegna worked with him. Before receiving this magnificent commission however Man-tegna had been for some time a disciple and assistant of Filippo Lippi. This collaboration turned out to have prodigious results. Between Padua and Venice despite the latter’s conquest of the mainland in the early Quattrocento there remained basic differences which the reigning government in Padua now inclined towards rebellion by Florence and its new enlightened art did very little to heal. (MP)