heaven in gold leaf, then a window
Altarpieces and household panels from Pisa, Siena, Florence and Venice, 1230 to 1500. Gold stands for a heaven with no depth, until Fra Angelico, Filippino Lippi and Botticelli’s workshop open the panel onto rooms, streets and hills.
14 digital works · source dimensions retained in pixels · no physical scale assigned
13 digital works · source dimensions retained in pixels · no physical scale assigned
14 digital works · source dimensions retained in pixels · no physical scale assigned
The collection brings together works from the Art Institute of Chicago and Cleveland Museum of Art Open Access collections and other openly licensed sources. Artist, title, date, medium, source and rights are printed under every plate. EPRIS Museum claims no rights in these images.