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Vasari, who claimed Signorelli as a relative, described him as kindly, and a family man, and said that he always lived more like a nobleman than a painter. Vasari included Signorelli's portrait, one of seven, in his study in Arezzo, along with Michelangelo and himself. The Torrigiani Gallery in Florence contains a grand life-sized portrait by Signorelli of a man in a red cap and vest, and corresponds with Vasari's observation. In the National Gallery, London, are the Circumcision of Christ and three other works. Legend holds that Signorelli depicted himself in the left foreground of his Orvietan mural The Preaching of the Antichrist. Fra Angelico, his predecessor in the Orvieto cycle, is thought to stand behind him in the piece. However, the figure thought to be Fra Angelico is not dressed as a Dominican friar, and Signorelli's supposed portrait does not match that in Vasari's study.
Major works
The Scourging of Christ (c. 1480) – Tempera on roundheaded panel, 84 × 57 cm, Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan
Testament and Death of Moses (1481–1482) – Fresco, 350 × 572 cm, Sistine Chapel, Vatican
Sant'Onofrio Altarpiece (1484) – Panel, 221 × 189 cm, Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Perugia
Madonna and Child (1484) – Panel, 170 × 117.5 cm, Uffizi, Florence
The Circumcision (c. 1490–91) – Oil on panel transferred to canvas, 259 × 180 cm, National Gallery, London
Madonna and Child with St. Joseph and Another Saint (1490–1492) – Panel, diameter: 99 cm, Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti, Florence
Portrait of a Man (c. 1492) – Tempera on panel, 50 × 32, Gemäldegalerie, Berlin
The Adoration of the Shepherds (1496) – Painted for the church of San Francesco, Città di Castello
Martyrdom of St Sebastian(1498) – Pinacoteca Comunale, Città di Castello
The Damned Cast into Hell (c. 1499) – San Brizio Chapel, Orvieto Cathedral, Orvieto, Italy
Allegory of Fertility and Abundance (c. 1500) – Tempera on panel, Uffizi, Florence
Lamentation over the Dead Christ (1502) – Wood, 270 × 240 cm, Museo Diocesano, Cortona
File:Vitellozzo Vitelli.jpg Portrait of Vitellozzo Vitelli (1500–1503) – Panel, Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Orvieto
Mary Magdalene (1504) – Panel, Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Orvieto
Calvary (1505)
The Coronation of the Virgin (1508) – painted for the Filippini Chapel in the church of San Francesco, Arcevia
The Trinity, the Virgin and Two Saints (1510) – Tempera on wood, 272 × 180 cm, Uffizi, Florence
Communion of the Apostles (1512) – Panel, 232 × 220 cm, Museo Diocesano, Cortona
Saint Catherine of Alexandria (c. 1512) – Tempera on panel, Museo Horne, Florence
Madonna with Child and Saints (1515) – Painted for church of San Francesco, Montone, now in the National Gallery, London
Madonna and Child with Saints (c. 1519–1523) – Tempera on panel, Museo di arte medievale e moderna, Arezzo
Immaculate Conception (c. 1523) – Panel, 217 × 210 cm, Museo Diocesano, Cortona
Madonna and Child with Saints (mid or late 1510s) – Panel, Museo Nazionale di Castel Sant'Angelo, Rome
Luca Signorelli's works
Frescos
See also
Signorelli parapraxis
Notes
References
Henry, Tom; Lawrence Kanter (2002). Luca Signorelli: The Complete Paintings. New York: Rizzoli.
Cruttwell, Maud, Signorelli. George Bell & Sons in London, 1899 (online)
Gilbert, Creighton (2002). How Fra Angelico and Signorelli Saw the End of the World. Penn State Press. ISBN 0-271-02140-3.
Henry, Tom, The Life and Art of Luca Signorelli. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2012 (Review)
Further reading
James, Sara Nair, Signorelli and Fra Angelico at Orvieto: Liturgy, Poetry, and a Vision of the Endtime. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing,2003. ISBN 0-7546-0813-1 [1]
James, Sara Nair, “Penance and Redemption: The Role of the Roman Liturgy in Luca Signorelli’s Frescoes at Orvieto” in Artibus et Historiae vol XXII, no. 44 Fall, 2001.
James, Sara Nair. "Vasari on Signorelli: The Origins of 'The Grand Manner of Painting,'" in Reading Vasari, edited by Anne B. Barriault, Andrew Ladis, Norman E. Land, and Jeryldene M. Wood. London and Athens, GA: Philip Wilson Publishers and the Georgia Museum of Art, 2005.
James, Sara Nair, “Apocalypse in the Visual Arts” for the Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, published by Verlag Walter de Gruyter in Berlin (Germany), Volume A, 2009.
Riess, Jonathan B. The Renaissance Antichrist: Luca Signorelli’s Orvieto Frescoes, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995.
Mauro Zanchi, Signorelli, Giunti, Firenze 2016. ISBN 9788809994201
External links
Art UK
Luca Signorelli by Maud Cruttwell
Cortona the Town where Luca Signorelli was born
Luca Signorelli at the National Gallery of Art
Lucas van Leyden (1494 – 8 August 1533), also named either Lucas Hugensz or Lucas Jacobsz, was a Dutch painter and printmaker in engraving and woodcut. Lucas van Leyden was among the first Dutch exponents of genre painting and was a very accomplished engraver.
Lucas was the son of the painter Huygh Jacobsz. He was born, died, and was mainly active in Leiden.
Carel van Mander characterizes Lucas as a tireless artist, who as a child annoyed his mother by working long hours after nightfall, which she forbade not only for the cost of candlelight, but also because she felt that too much study was bad for his sensibilities. According to Van Mander, as a boy he only consorted with other young artists, such as painters, glass-etchers and goldsmiths, and was paid by the Heer van Lochorst (Johan van Lockhorst of Leiden, who died in 1510) a golden florin for each of his years at age 12 for a watercolor of St. Hubert.
Paintings
He learned basic techniques from his father and from Cornelis Engelbrechtsz, but his precocious originality was paramount. Where he learnt engraving is unknown, but he took advantage of the works of Marcantonio Raimondi, whose motifs are reworked in Lucas' engravings and paintings, and became highly skilled in that art at a very early age: the earliest known print by him (Mohammed and the Murdered Monk) dates from 1508, when he was perhaps only 14, yet reveals no trace of immaturity in inspiration or technique.
Seventeen paintings surely by Lucas survive, and a further twenty-seven are known from descriptions by Carel van Mander, from contemporary copies or from drawings of them made by Jan de Bisschop in the later 17th century. Max Friedländer described no clear pattern of stylistic development, in large part because Lucas' oeuvre was swelled and obscured by attributions since found unsustainable.
Four broad stages in his artistic development are characterized by Elise Lawton Smith as his early half-length figures (c 1506–1512), the development of his landscapes (c 1512–1520), the influence of Antwerp paintings (c 1521–25) and the late works (ca 1525–1531), where multiple figures are deployed against wooded landscapes, as in the Healing of blind man of Jericho (illustration).
Raimondi's studies of nudes inspired van Leyden in his later work, particularly his altarpieces, in which he is an early Dutch adopter of the Italian-style nude figure. Two further artistic influences were Albrecht Dürer and Jan Gossaert. Indeed, he was friends with both, and Dürer drew van Leyden's portrait when they met in 1521. Dürer's mastery of engraving and Gossaert's Romanist style both heavily influenced van Leyden's work.
Lucas van Leyden's works -paintings