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- Title
PIETRO CAVALLINI AND THE RUINS OF ROME.
- Authors
Fraser, Russell
- Abstract
Explores the works of Pietro Cavallini, one of the most important Italian painters of his time and one of the painters to break away from the austere and rigid Byzantine style by attempting to render space in a naturalistic three-dimensional manner that was a precursor of actual perspective. Biographical profile of Cavallini; Influence on the lifelike style of Florentine painter Giotto, one of the foremost influences on the Renaissance; Resemblance of his paintings to the real story of the theme; Attribution of the famous works of Cavallini that include mosaics in Santa Maria in Trastevere and a series of frescoes in Santa Cecilia in Rome.
- Subjects
CAVALLINI, Pietro, ca. 1250-1330; PAINTERS; ARTISTS; FRESCO painting; RENAISSANCE
- Publication
Yale Review, 2004, Vol 92, Issue 1, p34
- ISSN
0044-0124
- Publication type
Article