"THE
MOST SOVEREIGN MASTER THERE HAS EVER BEEN IN PAINTING "
We only have space to cite a few examples among
the cases of anticipations or of outright borrowing from the decorations
of the Scrovegni Chapel on the part of some great painters.
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The soldiers asleep
at the foot of the tomb of the risen Christ. These can be found
in the same scene painted by Pietro Lorenzetti in the lower
basilica of St. Francis as well as the one by Piero della Francesca
in the painting gallery of Sansepolcro. |
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The innocent victim
on the pile of impaled corpses, seen in foreshortening from
the viewpoint of the head, that was to inspire Mantegna's Dead
Christ in the Brera Museum. |
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The bitter and
disillusioned suitor who breaks the switch that did not flower
in the scene of the Holy Virgin's Wedding with Joseph. The scene
is reproduced as a mirror image in Raphael's The Holy Virgin's
Wedding with Joseph. |
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The damned person,
bent forwards, was certainly present in Michelangelo's mind
when painting the Last Judgement in the Sistine Chapel. |
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The play of space
of the lances, spears, halberds, torches, clubs, etc. has inspired,
among others, Diego Velazquez in the Siege of Breda ("Le
lance") |
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The cold and metallic colour
with which Giotto has depicted Lucifer in Hell, and which the
Mexican muralists certainly remembered, beginning with Siqueiros
and several 20th century artists (e.g. Sironi). |
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