SQUARCIONE, FRANCESCO

fränchāˈskō skwärchōˈnā, 1397–1468, Italian painter; teacher of Mantegna. According to tradition he was a tailor and embroiderer who turned to painting c.1429 and established a school of painting in Padua. Only two signed works of his exist, Madonna with Child (Berlin) and an altarpiece in five sections (Padua).

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books on: Squarcione Francesco  - 40 results

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The Hutchinson Encyclopedia of the Renaissance
Book by David Rundle; Westview Press, 1999
Subjects: Renaissance--Encyclopedias
...Giambattista Primaticcio, Francesco Signorelli, Luca Naldini, Giovan...Liberatore Raimondi, Marcantonio Squarcione, Francesco Orcagna, Andrea Raphael Sanzio...Ugolino di Nerio Penni, Giovan Francesco Rosselli, Cosimo Vanni, Andrea...
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists
Book by Ian Chilvers; Oxford University Press, 1996
Subjects: Art--Dictionaries, Artists--Biography--Dictionaries
...was widely influential in the years around 1600. Squarcione, Francesco 1397-c. 1468 . Italian painter, active in Padua...It is impossible to assess any stylistic debt to Squarcione himself, however, as so little is known about...
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A Handbook of Italian Renaissance Painting
Book by Laurence Schmeckebier; G. P. Putnams Sons, 1938
Subjects: Painters--Italy, Painting, Italian--15th Century, Painting, Italian--16th Century, Painting, Renaissance--Italy
...Mino del, 50 Penni, Giovanni Francesco, 253 , 254 Perino del Vaga...Baldassare, 238 Pesellino, Francesco, 110 Piero di Cosimo, 148 Piero...Alberto, 51 Spinello Aretino, 38 Squarcione, Francesco, 196 Starnina, Gherardo, 37...
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The Art of the Renaissance
Book by Peter Murray, Linda Murray; Praeger, 1963
Subjects: Art, Renaissance
...Commentary on Dante, 185 Cossa, Francesco del, 142 -4 Costa, Lorenzo...Severus, Septimius, 14 Sforza, Francesco II of, 245 Sforza, Lodovico...239 Sixtus IV, 210 , 251 , 253 Squarcione, Francesco, 134 , 136 Strozzi, Palla...
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Treasures of Venice
Book by Michelangelo Muraro, André Grabar; Skira, created by A. Skira for Horizon magazine, 1963
Subjects: Architecture--Venice, Art, Venetian
...Morea Peloponnese 190 . MOROSINI Francesco, Doge 1688- 1694 190 . Mosaics...George 1804-1876 211 . SANSOVINO Francesco 23 , 90 , 97 , 145 , 161 , 162...Wedding of Venice with the Sea. SQUARCIONE Francesco c. 1397-1468 144 .
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journal articles on: Squarcione Francesco  - 3 results

 
 
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Donatello's Gattamelata and Its Humanist Audience *
Journal article by Mary Bergstein; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 55, 2002
Subjects: Classical antiquities, Donatello, Donato de'Bardi detto--Criticism and interpretation, Gattamelata (Sculpture)--Criticism and interpretation, Gattamelata (Sculpture)--History, Gattamelata (Sculpture)--Social aspects, Humanism--Criticism and interpretation, Humanism--Social aspects, Renaissance sculpture--Criticism and interpretation, Renaissance sculpture--History, Renaissance sculpture--Social aspects, Sculptors--Criticism and interpretation, Sculpture, Renaissance--Criticism and interpretation, Sculpture, Renaissance--History, Sculpture, Renaissance--Social aspects
...Bishop of Padua 1428-47), Francesco Barbara (1390-1454...the painter and impresario Francesco Squarcione (ca. 1397-1468). (82...Lipton, Deborah. 1974. "Francesco Squarcione." Ph.D. Diss. New York...
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Approaching the Altar: Donatello's Sculpture in the Santo
Journal article by Geraldine A. Johnson; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 52, 1999
Subjects: Chapels--Design and construction, Church architecture--Design and construction, Padua, Italy--Churches, mosques, synagogues, etc., Sculpture--Evaluation, Statues--Evaluation
...the Conventual Franciscan church of S. Francesco in Treviso serves as a useful example...Venetian state in 1449. In contrast, Francesco Capodilista, involved in the 1439 rebellion...31, on the statues heights. 96 S. Francesco in Treviso was a Conventual convent until...
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The Perspective Plan in the Sixteenth Century: the Invention of a Representational Language
Journal article by Lucia Nuti; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 76, 1994
Subjects: Art, Culture, Language, Politics, Renaissance period
...by Stefano Bonsignori and dedicated to Francesco de Medici: gazing at it, the author writes, Francesco will be able to see "in only one glance...1983, 71); for Padua: 1465, F. Squarcione, pen and watercolor on parchment, Padua...


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magazine articles on: Squarcione Francesco  - 1 result

 
 
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Andrea Mantegna
Magazine article by Arthur C. Danto; The Nation, Vol. 254, June 29, 1992
Subjects: Art exhibitions, Art--Exhibitions, Mantegna, Andrea--Exhibitions
...pressured Mantegnas patron, Francesco Gonzaga, to release the artist...work ever since. Its author was Francesco Squarcione, Mantegnas teacher and adoptive...of San Cristofano in Padua. Squarcione said, "They had nothing good...


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encyclopedia articles on: Squarcione Francesco  - 2 results

 
 
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Squarcione, Francesco
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SQUARCIONE, FRANCESCO francha sko skwarcho na, 1397 1468, Italian painter; teacher of Mantegna. According to tradition he was a tailor and embroiderer...
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Italian Art
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Orcagna in Florence and by Francesco Traini in Pisa. The pessimistic...Italy began to flourish. Squarcione was the teacher of many painters...paintings of Cosimo Tura, Francesco del Cossa, and Ercole de...Sassetta, Giovanni di Paolo, Francesco di Giorgio, and the sculptor...


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