Fra carnevale biography

Historical background .
Fra Carnevale is recorded from 1481 to 1484 as the parish priest of San Cassiano di Cavallino, near Urbino.
As a Dominican monk, Carnevale continued his artistic career.

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Perspective as Contradiction

John Haber
in New York City

Fra Carnevale: The Making of a Renaissance Master

Fra Carnevale traveled in the right company. Like Sandro Botticelli, he apprenticed under Fra Filippo Lippi, perhaps the most advanced painter in Florence. As a student of Masaccio, Lippi had assisted on the frescoes that gave birth to Italian Renaissance painting.

Sometime after 1450, Carnevale returned to his native Urbino, where another itinerant painter, Piero della Francesca, curried favor with one of the most powerful and ruthless men in Italy. Art like Piero's took many of its cues from architecture, sculpture, and mathematics, and Carnevale, too, turned to design and engineering. He worked on Urbino's first Renaissance church, which came to completion under Luca della Robbia, one of Florence's leading sculptors and a pioneer of terra cotta as a decorative building material.

As a Dominican monk, Carnevale continued his artistic career. However, contemporaries attest to only one major painting—an altarpiece that survives in fragments.

In other words, he

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Fra Carnevale

Italian painter (c. 1420/25–1484)

Fra CarnevaleOP (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] Most of these have even been contested as authentic to Carnevale at various points in history.

He is cited by a number of names including Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini, Bartolomeo Coradini, and Fra' Carnevale.

Historical background

He was born in Urbino, and entered the order of Dominicans in 1449 under the name of Fra’ Carnevale or Carnovale. He was a pupil of the Ferrarese painter Antonio Alberti. Farquhar claims he was the teacher of Giovanni Santi. Between 1445-1446, he worked in the studio of Filippo Lippi in Florence.^[1] Then, sometime before 1450, he returned to Urbino and joined San Dominico. Local scholars show evidence of his activities between 1456 and 1488. During this time, he apprenticed with Fra Jacopo Venet

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Fra Carnevale

Bartolomeo Corradini dit Fra Carnevale (Urbino, entre 1420 et 1425 - Urbino, 1484) est un peintre et un architecte italien du quattrocento qui a été actif de 1445 à sa mort. Il fut également ingénieur à la cour du duc d'UrbinoFrédéric III de Montefeltro à Urbino. Il est l’un des acteurs importants de ce que l’on appelle la Renaissance Urbinate et qui se caractérise par une attention toute particulière accordée à la Géométrie, la Perspective et l'Architecture

Biographie

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Urbino

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Avant 1445, il semble que Bartolomeo Corradini se soit formé auprès du peintre ferrarais Antonio Alberti alors installé depuis 1424 dans le nord des Marches.

Florence

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Mais sa maturation artistique correspond davantage au fait qu'entre 1445 et 1446, Bartolomeo Corradini est attesté à Florence auprès de l’important atelier de Fra Filippo Lippi. Il a peut-être été envoyé par Frédéric de Montefeltro pour absorber les nouveautés de la Renaissance florentine.

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