Word: veneziano
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Santa Croce, where the depth of the water averaged 25 feet, the famous Cimabue Crucifix was submerged and almost completely destroyed, the Domenico Veneziano fresco of St. John the Baptist and St. Francis was streaked with heating oil, as were the Tadeo Gaddi Last Supper and other frescoes, including the important fragments by Orcagna. The Bacchus, the Brutus and Pitti Madonna of Michelangelo in the Bargello Museum were also badly streaked with...
...maneuvers and barefoot peasantry. Then they turned to the subject matter that early French impressionism grew fat upon: landscapes populated by rocks and sheep, woodsmen warming in a shack, wheat harvests, the faces of peasants-all done in the subdued tonalities of their dulcet quattrocento ancestors, Fra Angelico, Domenico Veneziano and Piero della Francesca. This week in Manhattan, a show of 92 works goes on view at the American Federation of Arts Gallery; to many viewers, it will be a pleasant new-found island (see color) in the apparently empty seas of Italian art between the baroque period...