The exhibition, Visions of Paradise: Botticini's Palmieri
Altarpiece, runs until Valentine's Day.
This autumn the National Gallery stages another exhibition focused on an
altarpiece from its permanent collection: 'Visions of Paradise: Botticini's Palmieri
Altarpiece'.
Believed to be a section of a large, multi-part
altarpiece, it has been redisplayed in the University of Birminghambased gallery after extensive treatment by Stratford-upon-Avon conservator Stewart Meese.
ACROWD-FUNDING campaign has seen The Bowes Museum raise PS21,000 in the nick to time to conserve a 15th Century
altarpiece.
Of the latter's Pucci
altarpiece (impressively restored for this exhibition) Vasari remarked: 'Jacopo [i.
However, this presentation, as is typical of the Frick, also displayed a solid scholarly reevaluation of the remains of the Saint Augustine
Altarpiece (1454-1469), both as a key work in Piero's career and as a hallmark of his early style.
A reconstruction of the
altarpiece to indicate most probably where these survivors were originally placed in the church of San Augustino, Borgo San Sepolcro, is an invaluable aid to imagine the masterpiece in all its glory.
His journey starts at the
altarpiece of Ghent Cathedral, created by the Van Eyck brothers.
He wondered whether they would be suitable as an
altarpiece for the new church in Akureyri, which was then under construction.
In 1483, not long after his arrival in Milan, Leonardo was commissioned in company with two local brothers to complete the painted decorations for a large architectural and sculpted
altarpiece for the Confraternity of the Immaculate Conception.
Published to celebrate the completion of the conservation of this
altarpiece, this small volume offers a detailed, technical account of the process of its conservation, written by David A.
The book is divided into five chapters--each a case study of an
altarpiece produced between 1595 and 1625.
altarpiece - a painted or carved screen placed above and behind an altar or communion table