Tag: Renaissance
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St. Francis in the Desert
Long before the drama and emotion of the Baroque, Giovanni Bellini’s St. Francis in the Desert laid the groundwork for a new way of seeing the sacred. Painted around 1480, Bellini fills the landscape with radiant light that seems to transform the entire natural world into a vehicle for divine revelation. St. Francis does not…
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Even St. Joseph has rough days
Merry Christmas from the Baroque Art Accessibility Consortium! In celebration, we will be sharing our favorite Holy Family scenes by French Baroque artists from our recent trip to the Louvre. Bonus: The Holy Family of Francis I (c.1518) by Raphael and Friends. Not Baroque and not French but I do love this depiction of the…