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altarpiece by Lippi
In Fra Filippo Lippi: Life and works …the same time, Lippi’s well-known Coronation of the Virgin, is a complex work crowded with figures. The celebrated altarpiece is exquisitely sumptuous in appearance and marks a historic point in Florentine painting in its success in uniting as one scene the various panels of a polyptych. Read More
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Angelico
In Fra Angelico: San Domenico period …The Last Judgment (1440–45) and The Coronation of the Virgin (c. 1430–32), for example, the human figures receding toward the rear themselves create a feeling of space similar to that in the paintings of Angelico’s great Florentine contemporary Masaccio. The earliest work by Angelico that can be dated with certainty… Read More
Bellini
In Giovanni Bellini Bellini’s great Coronation of the Virgin at Pesaro, for example, might have reflected some of the compositional elements of Piero’s lost Coronation of the Virgin, painted as the central panel of a polyptych. Christ’s crowning of his mother beneath the effulgence of the Holy Ghost is a… Read More
Bitti
In Bernardo Bitti …of San Pedro is the Coronation of the Virgin. Its composition centres on the triangular grouping of the Trinity, with the Virgin below. Angels and cherubs float among billowing clouds. Bitti’s elongated figures, elegant poses, and planar rendering of drapery reflect his Mannerist training. Another work for San Pedro was… Read More
In Lorenzo Monaco …and influential work was his Coronation of the Virgin, signed and dated in February 1413, which was installed on the high altar of Santa Maria degli Angeli. This enormous ensemble, measuring about 510 × 450 cm (200 × 175 inches, or more than 16 × 14 feet), features the frequently… Read More
Paolo Veneziano
In Paolo Veneziano …and his son Giovanni signed The Coronation of the Virgin in 1358; it is the last known work by him. Another The Coronation of the Virgin, which is dated 1324, is also attributed to Paolo. Other known works of Paolo’s are dated 1333, 1347, and 1353. Read More
Raphael
In Raphael: Apprenticeship at Perugia …rather important commission—to paint the Coronation of the Virgin for the Oddi Chapel in the church of San Francesco, Perugia. The great Umbrian master Pietro Perugino was executing the frescoes in the Collegio del Cambio at Perugia between 1498 and 1500, enabling Raphael, as a member of his workshop, to… Read More
Velázquez
In Diego Velázquez: Middle years In The Coronation of the Virgin (1635–36) the solemnity and dignity of the holy persons are set off by their voluminous colourful robes in a composition of exceptional splendour specially fitting for a painting of the Queen of Heaven made to adorn the oratory of the… Read More
