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- Fra Carnevale OP (c. 1420–25 – 1484) was an Italian painter of the Quattrocento, active mainly in Urbino. Widely regarded as one of the most enigmatic artists, there are only nine works that can be definitively attributed to Carnevale known of today. Most of these have even been contested as authentic to Carnevale at various points in history.
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Fra Carnevale. Fra Carnevale OP ( c. 1420–25 – 1484) was an Italian painter of the Quattrocento, active mainly in Urbino. Widely regarded as one of the most enigmatic artists, there are only nine works that can be definitively attributed to Carnevale known of today. [1]
Fra Carnevale, pseudonimo di Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini (Urbino, 1420/1425 circa – Urbino, 1484), è stato un pittore e religioso italiano
The Ideal City stored in Baltimore ( Walters Art Museum) is a 15th-century painting usually attributed to the architect and artist Fra Carnevale. The painting was most likely executed for the Ducal Palace, Urbino of Federico da Montefeltro, duke of Urbino.
- 77.4 cm × 220. cm (30.5 in × 86.6 in)
- Attributed to Fra Carnevale
- between c. 1480 and c. 1484
Fra Carnevale's few surviving works reveal very fine gifts as a painter as well as an interest in classical architecture, discernible as early as his paintings of the Florentine period and exemplified by the National Gallery's Annunciation. During his activity in Urbino he was in contact not only with artists, including Laurana and Piero della ...
The concluding chapter unites the surviving works by Fra Carnevale with a masterpiece by Piero della Francesca, whose shadow falls across Fra Carnevale's finest paintings and epitomizes the artistic culture of Urbino. The exhibition is made possible by Bracco.
The ideal city by Fra Carnevale, c. 1480–1484. Part of a series on. Utopias. Mythical and religious. Arcadia. City of the Caesars. Cloud cuckoo land. Cockaigne. Eden. Elysium. Fortunate Isles. Garden of the gods. Shangri-La. Golden Age. Satya Yuga. Great Unity. Ketumati. Kingdom of God. Opona. Libertatia. Mag Mell. Mahoroba. Merry England.
Fra Carnevale, a Dominican friar, was clearly inspired by ancient Roman architecture and sculpture as well as by the new science of linear perspective, which allowed an artist to create the illusion of deep space on a flat surface.
