Praised in fifteenth-century humanist circles for his uncanny ability to create figures so well that they seemed alive and missing only a soul, the great quattrocento master Antonello da Messina was born Antonello di Giovanni d'Antonio about 1430 in Messina, a small city on the periphery of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. This catalogue accompanies a small, focused exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art centered around the loan by a trio of Sicilian museums of three masterpieces by Antonello, which were seen for the ...
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Praised in fifteenth-century humanist circles for his uncanny ability to create figures so well that they seemed alive and missing only a soul, the great quattrocento master Antonello da Messina was born Antonello di Giovanni d'Antonio about 1430 in Messina, a small city on the periphery of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. This catalogue accompanies a small, focused exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art centered around the loan by a trio of Sicilian museums of three masterpieces by Antonello, which were seen for the first time in the United States. The recently rediscovered double-sided painting from Messina of the Madonna and Child, with a Praying Franciscan Donor , perhaps the artist's earliest extant work, with a poignant image of Christ Crowned with Thorns on the reverse, is joined by the Portrait of a Man from Cefal???, a psychological tour de force, and by the centerpiece of the group--the compelling and mysterious Virgin Annunciate from Palermo, whose haunting beauty and serenity have been compared to that of Leonardo's Mona Lisa . A handful of other works by Antonello--including the Metropolitan Museum's Christ Crowned with Thorns ; a drawing attributed to the artist in the Metropolitan's Robert Lehman Collection; and a panel of the Ecce Homo with a scene of Saint Jerome in the Desert on the reverse side, on loan from a private collection--as well as four related works by Antonello's contemporaries from the Museum's own collection, complete the exhibition. The drawing and each of the paintings are reproduced in full color, some with fascinating details. In addition, several of the master's key iconic paintings are shown in comparative illustrations. Although details about Antonello's beginnings are scarce, clouded by legend and sometimes dubious information in the early sources, his artistic formation appears to have taken place in Naples, during the reign of Alfonso of Aragon, in a cultural climate open to French, Proven???al, Spanish, and Netherlandish influences. Already an independent master by 1457, he received numerous local commissions and was the head of a thriving workshop. A possible first trip to Rome about 1460 may have afforded Antonello the opportunity to experience the work of Fra Angelico and Piero della Francesca firsthand. However, the defining moment in his artistic development was to come later, in 1474-75, when Antonello made his first documented journey to Venice, a landmark occasion; it was there that he was commissioned to paint the principal altarpiece, his masterpiece, for the church of San Cassiano. This innovative work would leave a lasting imprint on the art of Giovanni Bellini and other Venetian masters, while the portraits Antonello painted in that city represent a new stage in the evolution of the genre in Italy. No greater artists would emerge from Southern Italy in the fifteenth century. The introductory essay by Keith Christiansen illuminates the high points of Antonello's achievements in the context of his time and his culture; the essay by Gioacchino Barbera offers a comprehensive study of Antonello's life, family background, artistic training, travels, expertise as a portraitist, preoccupation with the theme of the Ecce Homo , late career, and artistic legacy. Entries on the exhibited works, by Gioacchino Barbera and Andrea Bayer, precede a capsule biography of the artist, information about the three lending museums in Sicily, a checklist of the supplementary exhibited works, and a selected bibliography. [This book was originally published in 2005 and has gone out of print. This edition is a print-on-demand version of the original book.] Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Distributed by Yale University Press
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