A Discerning Eye: Essays on Early Italian Painting by Richard Offner.Offner, Richard. A Discerning Eye: Essays on Early Italian Painting by Richard Offner. Ed. Andrew Ladis. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Pennsylvania State University, main campus at University Park, State College; land-grant and state supported; coeducational; chartered 1855, opened 1859 as Farmers' High School. Press, 1998. x + 310 pp. bibl, index. $60. ISBN: 0-271-01747-3. Comprised of selected essays by and about Richard Offner, critic-historian of Early Italian painting, this volume emphasizes "Offner's abiding virtues as a historian and as a writer whose creative ambitions and scholarly responsibilities were ineluctably bound up with his connoisseurship." Andrew Laddis, Hayden B. J. Maginnis, and Craig Hugh Smith have contributed essays, and selections by Offner cover subjects ranging from the Magdelen Master in the thirteenth century to Masaccio in the early fifteenth. The volume includes a bibliography of Offner's published writings. Essays about Offner include: Andrew Ladis, "Richard Offner: The Unmaking of a Connoisseur"; Hayden B.J. Maginnis, "Richard Offner and the Ineffable: A Problem in Connoisseurship"; Craig Hugh Smyth, "Glimpses of Richard Offner." Essays by Offner include: "An Early Florentine Dossal dos·sal also dos·sel n. An ornamental hanging of rich fabric, as behind an altar. [Medieval Latin doss "; "Giotto, non-Giotto"; "The Shop of Pacino di Bonaguida"; "Jacopo del Casentino Jacopo del Casentino (c. 1330 – 1380) was an Italian painter called Jacopo Landino or da Prato Vecchio', active mainly in Tuscany. At Arezzo, he became a pupil of Taddeo Gaddi and followed his master to Florence, where they founded in 1349 the Company of "; "The Master of the Fogg Pieta"; "An Archangel by Bernardo Daddi"; "Four Panels, a Fresco, and a Problem"; "Nardo di Cione Nardo di Cione, (active 1343 – 1466), was an Italian painter, sculptor and architect from Florence. He was the brother of the more accomplished Andrea di Cione, called Orcagna, as well as Jacopo di Cione; they were important members of the Painter’s Guild of Florence. "; "Niccolo di Tommaso and the Rinuccini Master"; "The Panels of Antonio Veneziano"; "A Saint Jerome by Masolino"; "Light on Masaccio's Classicism"; "The Unique Portrait by Andrea del Castagno Andrea del Castagno (c. 1421 – 1457) was an Italian painter from Florence, influenced chiefly by Tommaso Masaccio and Giotto di Bondone. His works include frescoes in Sant'Apollonia in Florence and the painted equestrian monument of Niccolò da Tolentino (1456) in the "; "Italian Pictures at the New-York Historical Society New-York Historical Society, New York City. Founded in 1804, the society is a repository of art, artifacts, and literature relating to American, especially New York, history. and Elsewhere." |
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