(23 Mar 2024)
ITALY RENAISSANCE ART
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Milan - 19 March 2024
1. Close of San Michele Arcangelo
2. Tilt up of San Michele Arcangelo
3. Various of San Giovanni Evangelista
4. Various of Sant’Agostino
5. Various of Santa Monica
6. Various of La Crocifissione (Crucifixion)
7. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Alessandra Quarto, Poldi Pezzoli Museum Director: ++VIDEO AS INCOMING++
"Poldi Pezzoli has one of the panels which is dedicated to San Nicola da Tolentino and which is here, then from Lisbon, National heritage of Portugal, there is Sant'Agostino of the Museum of Ancient Art of Lisbon. And then there are the Saint Michael the Archangel from the National Gallery of London and the Saint John the Evangelist from the Frick Collection. The altar-step has three paintings from the Frick Collection, St. Leonard, The Crucifixion and St. Monica. And then there is another element of the altar-step, the Sant'Apollonia which is owned by the National Gallery of Art in Washington.”
8. Various of Santa Apollonia
9. Close of Machtelt Brüggen Israëls, exhibit’s co-curator
10. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Machtelt Brüggen Israëls, exhibit’s co-curator:
“It is magnificent for an exhibition to be able to bring together fragments and scattered pieces of what once was a whole. The monumentality, the solemnity of Piero della Francesca comes out. We wanted to understand how he had imagined this polyptych which includes these saints from the main register, and the smaller compartments of the altar-step, the pillars.”
11. Close of Sant’Agostino
12. Wide of the exhibit’s wall representing a drawing technique
13. Various of San Leonardo
14. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Machtelt Brüggen Israëls, exhibit’s co-curator: ++VIDEO AS INCOMING++
“In 1454 Piero della Francesca, the most illustrious son of Borgo San Sepolcro (a town), was commissioned (for the polyptych). He did not set to work immediately, he was busy working in Arezzo, Urbino and Perugia, and it was only in 1468 that he started painting, and a year later he installed his work on the main altar of Sant’Agostino (Borgo San Sepolcro, Tuscany)."
15. Various of San Nicola da Tolentino
16. Wide of Poldi Pezzoli Museum entrance
17. Close of poster
LEAD IN :
A new exhibition in Milan has reunited eight surviving panels of an altarpiece by an early Italian Renaissance master for the first time in over 450 years.
And there is hope that bringing the paintings by Piero della Francesca back together could lead to the discovery of other missing segments of the work.
STORYLINE:
St. Michael the arch angel, a renaissance masterpiece by early Italian Renaissance painter, Piero della Francesca.
On loan from the National Gallery in London, it is one of eight surviving panels from a 15th century altarpiece.
Augustinian hermits in della Francesca’s native Borgo San Sepolcro commissioned an altarpiece in 1454, and it hung in its original church for fewer than 100 years.
It was disassembled sometime after being moved to another church, as such depictions fell out of favor.
A panel showed up in a private collection in San Sepolcro as early as 1620.
Originally, the work was a 30-piece polyptych.
Museums have tried and failed in the past to assemble the remaining eight panels, spread among five museums in Europe and the United States.
The Frick Collection in New York, owner of four panels, came closest a decade ago, gathering six.
The piece has been missing for centuries and no sketches or records of its subject exist.
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