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Video highlight: Alberto Crespi e la sua collezione di 41 fondi oro donata al Museo Diocesano
The video honors the extraordinary legacy of Alberto Crespi and his invaluable collection of early Italian gold-ground paintings generously donated to the Museo Diocesano in Milan.
Video recommendation: Megan Holmes on the Lives of Italian Renaissance Panel Paintings
National Gallery of Art Talks - This compelling lecture by Megan Holmes explores the fascinating afterlives of Italian Renaissance panel paintings, from their creation to collection and conservation.
Recommended publication: Portable Panel Paintings at the Angevin Court of Naples
This book explores the mobilities and materialities of panel painting at and beyond the Angevin court of Naples in the context of objects, materials, patrons, and painters on the move through the fourteenth-century world.
Medioevo a Pistoia - Crocevia di artisti fra Romanico e Gotico
Pistoia - The Tuscan city was placed among the most important European pilgrimage routes.
Video highlight: Frick Perspectives - The Glint of Gold: Early Italian Pictures by Nathaniel Silver
The Frick Collection - This lecture explores the museum's works by Early Italian Renaissance masters.
Masaccio and Fra Angelico. A dialogue on truth in painting
Museo delle Terre Nuove, Museo della Basilica di Santa Maria delle Grazie, San Giovanni Valdarno, Tuscany, Italy
GIOTTESQUE PAINTERS IN THE VALDELSA / Seguaci di Giotto in Valdelsa
Museo d’Arte Sacra a Montespertoli - The exhibition shed light on how Giotto’s style radiated beyond the Elsa Valley during the 14th century.
Video recommendation: Didattica - Dal fondo oro al paesaggio...e ritorno (in ITALIAN)
This educational video from the Galleria dell'Accademia di Firenze masterfully illustrates the evolution and revival of gold backgrounds in Tuscan panel paintings.