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This programme traces the development of the fresco in the 15th and 16th centuries.
This programme traces the development of the fresco in the 15th and 16th centuries.
| Module code and title: | A201, Renaissance and Reformation |
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| Item code: | A201; 07 |
| First transmission date: | 22-04-1972 |
| Published: | 1972 |
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| Duration: | 00:24:26 |
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| Producer: | Mary Hoskins |
| Contributors: | Robert Bruce-Gardner; Catherine King |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Florence; Frescoes; Painting |
| Footage description: | Catherine King in the Brancacci Chapel, Florence introduces the programme and describes briefly the frescoes painted by Masaccio, Masolino and Filippo Lippi. Catherine King describes the technique of fresco, Robert Bruce Gardner demonstrates. Catherine King amplifies her comments on fresco, describing the characteristic effects forced upon the painter by the difficulty of the medium. Greater attention is paid to sinopia (underdrawings). The following frescoes are studied; 1. Brancacci chapel, Masaccio 'Tribute money'. 2. Masaccio 'St Peter healing the lame' 3- Giotto (Peruzzi chapel in Santa Croce). 4. Andrea del Castagno 'Trinity with St. Jerome and two saints' Catherine King indicates the problems of 'day work' Details of 'St Peter raising the son of Teofilo'. Catherine King examines the Barai chapel frescoe: painted by Giotto. The presenter now describes the use of perspective in fresco, an aesthetic progress beyond the style of Giotto. Masaccio's 'Trinity' in Santa Maria Novella is examined. Catherine King describes later fresco development's in particular the transfer of design onto wet plaster. Castagno's 'Trinity' Uccello's drawing for Sir John Hawkwood memorial. Painting of latter. Pontormo 'Drawing of an angel' Filippino Lippi's Strozzi chapel frescoes. Catherine King outlines some of the possible reasons for fresco's decline in popularity. Giotto's frescoes at Assissi. Michelangelo 'last judgement'. |
| Master spool number: | 6LT/70679 |
| Production number: | 00521_2313 |
| Videofinder number: | 2497 |
| Available to public: | no |
