Pietro Cavallini ( Italian: Pietro Cavallini , circa 1240 - 1330 ) - Italian painter of the Proto-Renaissance , author of mosaics and frescoes .
| Pietro Cavallini | |
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| ital. Pietro Cavallini | |
| Birth name | Pietro Cavallini |
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| Place of Birth | Rome |
| Date of death | |
| Place of death | Rome |
Life and work
Very little is known about the artist’s life. His date of birth is approximately between 1240 and 1250. Only information about his Roman origin is undoubted, since he often signed his works “ pictor romanus ”. Cavallini lived and worked in Rome and, presumably, died there too.
The first famous work of Cavallini is considered to be frescoes in the church of São Paulo fuori le Mura , created on plots from the Old and New Testaments. The frescoes died in the fire of 1823; only copies were preserved.
Around 1291, the artist works on a mosaic cycle in the church of Santa Maria in Trastevere . They show features characteristic of Byzantine art, as well as elements of ancient Christian painting and some methods of building perspectives characteristic of late antique painting [3] .
The most famous work of Cavallini is considered to be the frescoes created by him around 1293 for the church of Santa Cecilia in Trastevere . Here he deviates in many respects from the Byzantine canons: instead of sharp color contrasts, soft black and white transitions appear, which make it possible to overcome the flat, abstract character inherent in Byzantine painting [3] .
Cavallini participated in the mosaic decoration of the so-called Navicella on the eve of the church of St. Peter. He is credited with both the mosaic and the ornament on the tomb of Edward the Confessor in Westminster Abbey . For his pious life he was considered a saint; according to legend, the crucifixion of his work in the basilica of São Paulo Fuori le Mura , near Rome in 1370, addressed a saint with a speech.
Cavallini’s creative heritage cannot be called numerous, but it occupies an important place in the history of Italian art. The artist again turns to ancient art, forgotten by his predecessors; his work is characterized by the desire to reflect real life, which will be decisive for the entire subsequent development of art [4] . In his monumental works, attention is drawn to the majesty of the figures in combination with the naturalness of proportions; the artist’s attempts to build a three-dimensional space create a feeling of depth [5] .
Cavallini's art influenced Giotto and other artists of the Italian Renaissance.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 118872583 // General regulatory control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ 1 2 RKDartists
- ↑ 1 2 Wipper, 1977 , p. 43.
- ↑ M.A. Gukovsky. Italian Renaissance. - L .: Publishing house of the Leningrad University, 1990. - S. 134.
- ↑ The most famous artists, 2013 , p. four.
Literature
- Whipper B.R. Italian Renaissance. - Moscow: Art, 1977. - T. 1. - S. 43-44.
- Mosin I.I. All about painting. The most famous artists. - Vilnius: UAB "Bestiary", 2013. - S. 4. - 112 p. - ISBN 978-609-456-066-8 .