Art historians now generally agree on the need to exclude his works from the catalog of Paolo Veneziano, to whom they were almost unanimously attributed for some thirty years, beginning with Giuseppe Fiocco (19301931), and to whom the Gallery (1985), Francesca Zava Boccazzi (1993), and John Oliver Hand (2004) continued to attribute the Coronation in Washington. The Latin text there, adapted from the Song of Songs, reads: Tota pulchra es, amica mea, veni conoravi. shows the picture covered with dirt and darkened varnish. Crowned Virgins are also seen in Eastern Orthodox Christian icons, specifically in the Russian Orthodox church after the 18th century. The three-dimensional leaves are painted gold against the ocean-blue background. All three areas showed the same elements; therefore, this type of analysis could not be used to determine if the inscription is original. Following Muraros intervention, many art historians continued to maintain with varying degrees of conviction the attribution of the Washington Coronation to Paolo Veneziano, while others preferred to leave it in anonymity. Viktorija Markova, Italija: Sobranie ivopisi, vol. [23] [23]Although various scholars have expressed doubt, I think Rodolfo Pallucchini (1964) was right to see the hand of the young Paolo in the figures of the two tiny donors painted kneeling at the feet of the wooden relief of San Donato in the altarpiece at Murano, a work dated 1310 and hence the earliest testimony of the artists activity. Angels and cherubs float among billowing clouds. An old photograph, taken in the late nineteenth century [fig. Since the 1970s, an ever growing number of scholars have accepted Muraros proposal, and even in some cases his conjectural attribution to Marco Veneziano: Michelangelo Muraro, Maestro Marco e Maestro Paolo da Venezia, in Scritti di storia dellarte in onore di Antonio Morassi (Venice, 1971), 23, 3031; Giuseppe Marchini, Corpus vitrearum Medii Aevi, vol. (Washington, DC, 1979), 1:328, mentioned that Mario Modestini cradled, cleaned and restored the paintingin 1953. 1, Le vetrate dellUmbria (Rome, 1973), 136; Luciano Gargan, Cultura e arte nel Veneto al tempo del Petrarca (Padua, 1978), 58; Hans Belting, Introduzione, in Il medio oriente e loccidente nellarte del XIII secolo, Atti del XXIV congresso internazionale di storia dellarte, September 1018, 1979, ed. (Entry fig. Who was the Master of the Washington Coronation? Two Apostles and the Prophets Jeremiah and Ezekiel (?) The woman looks at us while holding both hands up to gesture toward Jesus. Carlo Bertelli, Il millennio ambrosiano (Milan, 1989), 67 n.68; Carla Travi, Su una recente storia della pittura del Veneto nel Trecento, Arte cristiana 82 (1994): 71. 144 and 183. Antonio del Zotto e gi Giuseppe Piccoli (Geri-Salvadori, Venice, 1-16 September 1919), does not cite the painting, which perhaps had already been sold. Rodolfo Pallucchini, ed., La pittura veneziana del Trecento (Venice, 1964), 2224, figs. Charles and his wife, Queen Consort Camilla, will be formally crowned on May 6 in a solemn religious . (Milan, 1992), 2:541542; Mauro Lucco, Paolo Veneziano, in La Pittura nel Veneto: Il Trecento, ed. A second Coronation of the Virgin, executed about 1445, displays a marked change in the style of Lippifrom the plastic values suggested by his study of Masaccio to the serene chromatics of Angelico. the two fragments of an altarpieceAltarpiece An image-bearing structure set on the rear part of the altar, abutting the back of the altarblock, or set behind the altar in such a way as to be visually joined with the altar when viewed from a distance. (Milan, 1992), 2:544; Mojmir Svatopluk Frinta, Punched Decoration on Late Medieval Panel and Miniature Painting (Prague, 1998), 127, 128; Fulvio Zuliani, in Da Giotto al tardogotico: Dipinti dei Musei Civici di Padova del Trecento e della prima met del Quattrocento, ed. Rodolfo Pallucchini, ed.. Cf. Cf. Jane Turner, 34 vols. Rodolfo Pallucchini, ed., La pittura veneziana del Trecento (Venice, 1964), figs. Tempera paintings were made by binding different pigments together with organic substances (the medium) on a wooden panel. Artwork 1 depicts the scene when Mary was crowned Queen of Heaven and Earth. These include one other dated painting: namely, the altar frontal of the Blessed Leone Bembo now at the treasury of the Church of Saint Blase in Vodnjan (Dignano dIstria) in Croatia, painted for the Venetian church of San Sebastiano in 1321. Alexander Nagel, Grove Art Oxford University Pressone with three, the other with four figures of saintsnow in the Pinacoteca Civica in Forl;[17] [17]The two fragments in Forl, left in anonymity by earlier art historians such as Edward B. Garrison (1949) and Giordano Viroli (1980), were attributed to the Master of Caorle by Giovanni Valagussa (1995). Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia) Italian. By the 15th century, more individual interpretations are found. East Building The Virgin, enclosed within an open arcade of soft grey stone, stands in front of an open door and draws her arm up across her breast in fear. Cf. In early versions the setting is a Heaven imagined as an earthly court, staffed by saints and angels; in later versions Heaven is more often seen as in the sky, with the figures seated on clouds. Rodolfo Pallucchini, ed., La pittura veneziana del Trecento (Venice, 1964), figs. Coronation of the Virgin, 1429-1447 Tempera on wood 78 3/4 113 in | 200 287 cm Galleria degli Uffizi Florence Get notifications for similar works Create Alert Want to sell a work by this artist? Cail's boyfriend, whose name was not released by police . As with diptychs and triptychs, the size and material can vary. In The Coronation of the Virgin (1635-36) the solemnity and dignity of the holy persons are set off by their voluminous colourful robes in a composition of exceptional splendour specially fitting for a painting of the Queen of Heaven made to adorn the oratory of the Read More Mikls Boskovits, Ada Labriola, and Martina Ingendaay Rodio, new ed. Note: Exhibition history, provenance, and bibliography are subject to change as new information becomes available. Instead, the look of his painting is the product of a pervasive, and enduring, Byzantine influence on all art of the Veneto, the region around Venice. 12. For a review of the fortuna critica, cf. 1] [fig. During the last recorded treatment, another discolored varnish was removed and the losses were inpaintedInpainting Application of restoration paint to areas of lost original paint to visually integrate an area of loss with the color and pattern of the original, without covering any original paint.. Click on any panel in the altarpiece reconstruction below to see an enlarged version of the image. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Francesca Flores dArcais and Giovanni Gentili (Cinisello Balsamo, Milan, 2002), 144; Grgo Gamulin, The Painted Crucifixes in Croatia (Zagreb, 1983), 120 and pl. Michelangelo Muraro (1969) accepted that proposal, although he did not exclude the alternative suggestion that the four figures originally belonged to una piccola iconostasi (a small iconostasis). The altarpiece was never officially prescribed by the Church, but it did perform a prescribed function alternatively carried out by a simple inscription on the altarblock: to declare to which saint or mystery the altar was dedicated. 4] [fig. A considerable number of small scattered losses appear in the central part of the gold ground as well as in the draperies (especially in the Virgins mantle), whereas along the bottom edge of the panel the paint is irregularly fractured, obliterating the riser of the dais. 24, as examples of a bizantinismo. Italian, active first third 14th century. [20] [20]The neo-Hellenistic tendency, attested in the field of monumental painting by the frescoes of Sopoani, is also exemplified by various icons in the collection of the monastery of Saint Catherine on Mount Sinai, or by the miniatures in the Prophet Book of the Biblioteca Vaticana (Vat. (Washington, DC, 1979), 1:326328; Pietro Scarpellini (intro. Mauro Lucco, 2 vols. [1] [1]The NGA scientific research department identified the wood (see report dated May 30, 1989, in NGA conservation files). 1923. Cf. and the fragment of a Crucifixion that surfaced at an auction sale in Rome in 1974, but which has since gone untraced. See also The Kress Collection Digital Archive, https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/2111. According to the U.S. Virgin Islands Police Department , Cail, 42, was found unresponsive . The flat gold halos around every person and angels heads are punched with clusters of three dots. [1] Dr. J. Carl [or Carlo?] See also Provenance note 1. and the frescoes on the triumphal arch and nave of the church of San Fermo at Verona),[15] [15]See Andrea De Marchi, La prima decorazione della chiesa francescana, in I santi Fermo e Rustico: Un culto e una chiesa, per il XVII centenario del loro martirio (3042004), ed. See Sergio Bettini, I mosaici dellatrio di San Marco e il loro seguito, Arte veneta 8 (1954): 724; Italo Furlan, in Il Trecento adriatico: Paolo Veneziano e la pittura tra Oriente e Occidente, ed. (fig. The Holy Ghost, appears above them in the form of a dove, occupying the upper vertex of a rhombus formed by the four figures. This work is based on a print by Albrecht Drer. Both pieces explore aspects of religion and spirituality. My interest in Enguerrand Quarton's Coronation of the Virgin goes back to the early 1980s when 1 chose it as topic for a memoire de licence ("Le Couronnement de la Vierge d'Enguerrand Quarton: Thologie et histoire des mentalits d'une iconographie. [5] [5]Cf. The subject seems to first appear in art, unusually, in England, where a tympanum over the door of the church at Quenington in Gloucestershire of perhaps 1140 may be the earliest surviving depiction, and there is another in Reading, Berkshire. 54 in the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris. Muraro himself then tried to reconstruct the production of the Master of the Washington Coronation, assigning him not only the panels in Padua and Belgrade but also the Madonna no. It measures nearly 70 x 52 inches and the original work is in Museo del Prado. 1, VIIIXVIvekov (Moscow, 2002), 4143. The life of the Virgin. Francesca Flores dArcais and Giovanni Gentili (Cinisello Balsamo, Milan, 2002), 142; Carla Travi, Il Maestro del trittico di Santa Chiara: Appunti per la pittura veneta di primo Trecento, Arte cristiana 80 (1992): 96 n.57; Carla Travi, Su una recente storia della pittura del Veneto nel Trecento, Arte cristiana 82 (1994): 71; Clara Santini, Unantologia pittorica del primo Trecento nella chiesa di San Francesco a Udine, Arte cristiana 82 (1994): 188; Clara Santini, Un episodio della pittura veneziana di primo Trecento: Il Maestro dellIncoronazione della Vergine di Washington, Il Santo 37 (1997): 123145; Italo Furlan, in Il Trecento adriatico: Paolo Veneziano e la pittura tra Oriente e Occidente, ed. Bittis elongated figures, elegant poses, and planar rendering of drapery reflect his Mannerist training. 2)(see also Reconstruction). 1604 in the Musei Civici in Padua and with the Madonna (no. 2] Archival photograph, pre-1953, Master of the Washington Coronation. Mario Modestini thinned and cradledCradling Attaching a woodent grid to the reverse of a panel to prevent the panel's warping. See Rodolfo Pallucchini, ed., La pittura veneziana del Trecento (Venice, 1964), 29, 250, fig. (Florence, 2001), 531539. This central group is surrounded by angels and the elect in heaven. Holiness appears to be overlooking a tremendous event occurring below. The Coronation of the Virgin is recounted not in the New Testament but in the apocryphal story of the Virgin's death. The panel in the National Gallery of Art is one of the earliest representations of the subject that has come down to us from the Veneto region. Coronation of the Virgin Depicts same location Saint Anne 'Metterza' Uses same medium Coronation of the Virgin From same collection Altarpiece of St Lucia de' Magnoli From related movement. . Carla Travi, Il Maestro del trittico di Santa Chiara: Appunti per la pittura veneta di primo Trecento, Arte cristiana 80 (1992): 96 n.57. Copies of the Knoedler bill and sale record are in NGA curatorial files. Important commissions followed, including the Coronation of the Virgin (1502) for the altar of the Oddi family chapel in the Church of San Francesco al Prato in Perugia. To this small group a number of other works can, in my view, be added. [3] The Agnew records (kindly confirmed by Venetia Constantine of Agnews, e-mail, 28 June 2010, in NGA curatorial files) give details about the joint purchase and indicate that Agnews share in the painting was sold to Heinemann on 16 June 1952, several months after the February date of the Knoedler bill of sale to the Kress Foundation (see note 4). Edward B. Garrison, Published as a work of the Veneto-Byzantine school of the 14th century by Ettore Merkel, Isole del nord della Laguna,, The neo-Hellenistic tendency, attested in the field of monumental painting by the frescoes of Sopoani, is also exemplified by various icons in the collection of the monastery of Saint Catherine on Mount Sinai, or by the miniatures in the. Sergio Bettini (1954) noted their kinship with the mosaic dated 1277 on the ciborium of the Basilica Eufrasiana in Parenzo (Istria), and Italo Furlan (2002) dated them even earlier, to c.1260. As the central panel of altarpieces became larger until it abandoned the predella and side-panels, the Coronation was one subject suited to a very tall composition, especially if it had Apostles or other saints of importance to the community depicted on the lower sections. and the busts of apostles from the iconostasis of Caorle Cathedral. According to Pallucchini, the panel in question is a work by Paolo Veneziano dating to c.1330 and must have originally formed part of the predella of a now disassembled polyptych. In addition, there are Canonical coronations authorized by the Pope which are given to specific Marian images venerated in a particular place. Cf. Cf. The artist, however, did not have a Byzantine model. In the picture there are a lot of objects, there are two musicians with a violin and a harp. See Rodolfo Pallucchini, ed.. Although in principle every object with two panels or more may be called a polyptych, the word is normally used as a general term for anything larger than a triptych. . The antependium in the monastery of the Benedictine sisters at Zadar (Zara) and the mosaics of the baptistery of San Marco in Venice are presumably the work of other, as yet unidentified Venetian artists of the period. [fig. In my view, Marchis dating to the third decade of the fourteenth century should be pushed back to the second decade. Her mantle and Jesuss robe are painted with gold lines to indicate folds. Constantine speculates that Agnew might have recorded the date when payment for their share was actually received from Heinemann, rather than the date when they made the decision to sell their share. In the years in which Paolo made his appearance on the scene, the activity of our anonymous master is attested to by works in which the forms tend to be more incisive and in which any cultivation of elegance in gesture, or gothicizing animation in calligraphic rhythm, is muted. 1, Le vetrate dellUmbria (Rome, 1973), 136; Lucio Grossato, ed., Da Giotto al Mantegna (Milan, 1974), no. Mauro Lucco, 2 vols. The record's lyrics, as well as the cover, were controversial at the time; both the British . The Coronation of the Virgin is a tempera painting, which requires aesthetic, as well as architectural, skill. The half moon has a shell design at the center and is painted with gold stars against a cobalt-blue background along the top, curving edge. I refer to such works as the Madonna and Child with Donors[fig. In works such as the panel now in Washington (dated 1324) he aspires to a figural style characterized by gothicizing elegance of movement and fluency in linear rhythms [fig. You can copy, modify and distribute this image, even for commercial purposes. Nonetheless, the catalogue of the sculptors estate sale, Collezione del fu Comm. at the end of the thirteenth century), the San Zan Degol frescoes were interpreted as an announcement of the art of Paolo Veneziano by Michelangelo Muraro, Antichi affreschi veneziani, in Le meraviglie del passato (Verona, 1954), 688. The Roman Catholic Church celebrates the feast every August 22, where it replaced the former octave of the Assumption of Mary in 1969, a move made by Pope Paul VI. Travi (1994) then categorically affirmed the common authorship of the frescoes and the group of paintings formerly combined with the Washington Coronation under the conventional name of the Master of Caorle. Although most Venetian polyptychs of the fourteenth century have come down to us either disassembled or incomplete, two altarpieces painted by Paolo Venezianoin the Bishops Palace of Krk and the (now dismembered) polyptych from the Collegiata of Pirano (on loan to the Museo di Palazzo Venezia in Rome)still retain a gable panel with the Crucifixion. 5. In part because of the ready availability of these pigments, the brilliant color we see here would continue to be a hallmark of Venetian painting into the Renaissance and beyond. It was released as the band's second single and was later included on their only studio album, Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols.The song was released during Queen Elizabeth II's Silver Jubilee in 1977.. Cf. See also M. Knoedler and Co. Records, accession number 2012.M.54, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles: Series II, Box 76 (Sales Book No. Iconology, which is based on the results of iconography, is the more wide-ranging and comprehensive. More likely, however, its painter belonged to the previousgenerationhe may even have been Paolos father, Martino da Venezia. 48, 162,74. These frescoes are variously attributed and dated,[19] [19]Discussed by Rodolfo Pallucchini, ed., La pittura veneziana del Trecento (Venice, 1964), 10, figs. Christies, Rome, May 20, 1974, lot. 2734. Picasso's sizable oeuvre grew to . In general the art of this period, often paid for by royalty and the nobility, increasingly regarded the heavenly court as a mirror of earthly ones. It is therefore probable that the elderly master shared a workshop around this time with the rising star of fourteenth-century Venetian painting. (above all in the greater solidity of the Paduan Madonna. Apart from the paintings cited in notes 35 above, I think that Paolos initial phase also should include some paintings significantly attributed in the past to the Master of the National Museum in Belgrade (inv. 4] Detail, Master of the Washington Coronation, The Coronation of the Virgin, 1324, tempera on poplar, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Samuel H. Kress Collection. The alternation of full-length prophets and half-figure apostles would seem to exclude the alleged provenance of the former Cini collection panel either from a predella or from an iconostasis. XlVe-XVe-XVIe siecles," unpublished thesis, University de Gen&ve, 1984). 1455 On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 956. Some of the earliest representations were carved above cathedral doorways in Franceand certain elements in the Gallery's paintingits elaborate halos, for exampleshare in the decorative elegance of Gothic art. Mauro Lucco, 2 vols. Among the many lovely aspects of the life of the Virgin, the loveliest is the story of her conception, born of a kiss between the aged Joachim and the long-barren Saint Ann, as they linger by the city gate. . For these works, see Rosa DAmico and Tatjana Bonjak, in Il Trecento adriatico: Paolo Veneziano e la pittura tra Oriente e Occidente, ed. 2] Archival photograph, pre-1953, Master of the Washington Coronation, The Coronation of the Virgin, 1324, tempera on poplar, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Samuel H. Kress Collection, made before the 1953 treatment, proves that in the meantime the painting was probably treated. In other words, he reveals a style akin to but more modernmore attuned to the GothicGothic Term used to denote, since the 15th century, the architecture and, from the 19th century onward, all the visual arts of Europe during a period extending by convention from about 1120 to c. 1400 in central Italy, and until the late 15th century and even well into the 16th century in northern Europe and the Iberian Peninsula. The work is difficult to date but presumably originated in years not far removed from the execution of the painting discussed here. Francesca Flores dArcais claimed to detecterroneously, in my viewdifferences between this panel and the Coronation in Washington, soprattutto nella maggiore corposit della Madonna padovana. [1] On the life and career of the sculptor Dal Zotto see Livia Alberton Vinco da Sesso, "Antonio dal Zotto," in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, 77 vols., Rome, 1960-: 32(1986): 285287. J.E.A. Kroesen and Victor Michael Schmidt (Turnhout, 2009), 63. Heinemann often worked in tandem with Knoedlers, for whom he was at one time managing partner, and may have done so in this instance. The subject also drew from the idea of the Virgin as the "throne of Solomon", that is the throne on which a Christ-child sits in a Madonna and Child. From his earliest works (those datable between the second and early third decade of the century, such as the scenes from the life of the Virgin in the Musei Civici at Pesaro[14] [14]Cf. the altarpieces of San Pantalon at Venice, that of the stories of Saint Lucy at Krk (Croatia), and polyptych no. Cf. English: Coronation of the Virgin Altarpiece by Guariento di Arpo, 1344, tempera and gold leaf on panel, Norton Simon Museum Let us know if you have suggestions to improve this article (requires login). (Milan, 1986), 2:648; Mauro Lucco, Maestro dellIncoronazione della Vergine di Washington, in La Pittura nel Veneto: Il Trecento, ed. Mary usually is represented seated on the same throne as her son and to his right as he crowns her with his right hand. The sale catalog linked this work with the circle of the painter of the Washington Coronation, and Carla Travi later inserted it in the catalog of the Master of Caorle (alternative name of the Master of the Washington Coronation). 4, The Local Schools of North Italy of the 14th Century (The Hague, 1924), 56; Evelyn Sandberg-Vaval, Maestro Paolo Veneziano, The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs 57 (1930): 165 n.5; Viktor Nikiti Lazarev, ber eine neue Gruppe byzantinisch-venezianischer Trecento-Bilder, Art Studies 8 (1931): 13 n.3. Now much damaged, it was rightly restored to the young. These works are preceded in date by the vigorous language of some other paintings in which the artist strives to create strong effects of plastic relief and to present his figures in illusionistically convincing architectural settings. According to Luciano Bellosi, on the other hand (1985), the architectural settings of these frescoes were troppo solide e concrete per non postulare un precedente assisiate (too concrete and solid not to postulate a precedent [for them] in Assisi), and this implied a dating to the early years of the fourteenth century. The arched area over the throne comes to a point, and is carved with leaves around the arch. Francesca Flores dArcais and Giovanni Gentili (Cinisello Balsamo, Milan, 2002), 146. Other objects include books, most likely Bibles, a cross, a crown, a huge cathedral like stage that Mary and Jesus sit upon, and possibly a sword. 3] [fig. ), framed: 115.3 x 86 x 8.9 cm (45 3/8 x 33 7/8 x 3 1/2 in. Enrico Castelnuovo, 2 vols. These paintings are still strongly indebted to the classicizing aspirations of the Palaeologan Renaissance. It was felt that the throne itself must be royal. Cf. Gamulin 1964). The Triptych with the Coronation of the Virgin (1325-50), a precious ivory carving with details in gold and paint, depicts angels adoring the Virgin Mary, crowned as the Queen of Heaven. The historic Coronation Chair on which Henry VIII and other monarchs of England and later Britain have been crowned for some 700 years is getting a makeover ahead of this year's ceremony for King Charles, London's Westminster Abbey said. In my view, the Vodnjan panel belongs to the catalog of the Master of the Washington Coronation. [1] The NGA scientific research department analyzed the gilding of the inscription, that of the background, and that of an area of restoration using x-ray fluorescence spectroscopy (see report dated February 9, 1999, in NGA conservation files). All the people and angels have pale skin with a greenish cast, though their cheeks are blush pink. alla fine del Duecento (Byzantinism which seems to decant itself into a Hellenistic classicism by means of an intensely plastic construction of forms. In Christian iconography, the crown develops religious meanings. [fig. 1923, and in more recent years Alessandro Marchi, in Il Trecento adriatico: Paolo Veneziano e la pittura tra Oriente e Occidente, ed. A late thirteenth-century date had already been postulated by Lazarev (1965), the first to compare the San Zan Degol cycle with the Madonna in the Pushkin Museum in Moscow and the Washington Coronation, followed by Boskovits (1989), who included in the masters oeuvre, in addition to the aforesaid works, the panels in Caorle (for which see also note 22 below). The painting was executed on a two-member, vertically grained poplar panel. 1] Reconstruction of a dispersed polyptych by the Master of the Washington Coronation: a. 1] [fig. However, the. The Coronation of the Blessed Virgin is also a subject of devotion throughout Christianity. They all have long, wavy, blond hair except for the woman, Mary, whose head is covered. Here, the Virgin holds the infant Jesus in a naturalistic manner. Davide Banzato and Franca Pellegrini (Rome, 1989), 7779. J0332 and identify the Broglio family member from whom it was purchased. Export from an artist page includes image if available, biography, notes, and bibliography. But the alternative proposal by Michelangelo Muraro (1965, 1969), who placed the Washington panel at the center of his reconstruction of the oeuvre of an artist he considered the stylistic precursor and perhaps even the elder brother of Paolo, has met with increasing consent since the latter decades of the twentieth century. See Rodolfo Pallucchini, ed.. The polyptych normally consists of a central panel with an even number of side-panels, which are sometimes hinged to fold. The NGA scientific research department identified the wood (see report dated May 30, 1989, in NGA conservation files). Edward B. Garrison, Italian Romanesque Panel Painting: An Illustrated Index (Florence, 1949), 237; Giordano Viroli, ed., La Pinacoteca Civica di Forl (Forl, 1980), 67; Giovanni Valagussa, Prima di Giotto, in Il Trecento riminese: Maestri e botteghe tra Romagna e Marche, ed. In many Coronation scenes painted by Paolo and other Venetian artists a. They are the Madonna and Child no. Perhaps the most influential artist of the 20th century, Pablo Picasso may be best known for pioneering Cubism and fracturing the two-dimensional picture plane in order to convey three-dimensional space. . In his view, this master was a follower of Paolo during the phase of his full maturity. 73. 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