Andrea del Castagno and the Limits of Painting

by A. Dunlop, Anne Dunlop, Andrea del Castagno

The Florentine painter Andrea del Castagno (c. 1419-1457) was a central figure of the Italian Renaissance, and his work appears in every major survey textbook on the period. Giorgio Vasari described him a master of drawing and a constant innovator. Vasari also however claimed that Andrea was a cold-blooded assassin, a man who left a self-portrait as Judas and who had murdered a fellow painter to obtain the secret of painting in oil. When Andrea del...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1909400181
• ISBN13: 9781909400184
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Harvey Miller
• Length: 187 Pages
• Weight: 2.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.9" x 11.2"