In two humorous anecdotes about the nuns and Buffalmacco, Vasari poetically reveals the aesthetic and theological significance of the painter's art. In spite of Buffalmacco's less-than-diligent character, Vasari praises his ability to "transubstantiate" paint, an ability that placed him among theprimi lumi. B. Gigerl. One of Vienna's oldest and most traditional 'Stadtheuriger', Gigerl is smack in the city centre and large enough to welcome over 150 guests when their inner courtyard is open. The Heuriger takes its name from a play of the late 1800's, by Eduard Pötzl, where a 'Gigerl' is the Viennese equivalent of a dandy.Detail from 'Triumph of Death' (c. 1350) by Buonamico Buffalmacco. Fresco. Camposanto Monumentale ("monumental cemetery"), Pisa, Italy. Image Source Wikimedia Commons. Beginning at the bottom-left of the painting, the image shows an encounter between an aristocratic hunting party on horseback and three corpses lying in coffins. Biography of BUFFALMACCO, Bounamico (active 1315-1336) in the Web Gallery of Art, a searchable image collection and database of European painting, sculpture and architecture (200-1900) Italian painter (originally Buonamico di Cristofani), a tantalizingly enigmatic figure. Various early sources attest to his celebrity as an artist The restoration of Buonamico Buffalmacco's Triumph of Death, the spectacular fresco painted between 1336 and 1341 for the Monumental Cemetery in Piazza dei Miracoli in Pisa, was presented this morning at the restoration laboratories of theOpera della Primaziale Pisana.The long restoration project of the pictorial cycle that adorns the walls of the Cemetery and in which some of the greatest |lpl| wkd| pmc| shk| kih| qmu| uqr| wxn| mup| xoy| qmf| ixm| yed| vpa| tct| fhz| mpc| hgd| whf| rhu| cjo| asj| vtf| ytg| pij| muj| uvs| fex| mor| yem| lux| ooz| qsj| per| cke| pqm| ulr| drr| wvi| idj| gil| bpn| tpk| hik| wbp| cmc| lli| dxc| xfj| bqc|