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Article: Renaissance gothic at the national gallery.
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- December 1, 2001
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READERS who missed the National Gallery's exhibition of the reassembled Pisa altarpiece by Masaccio, which ended on 11 November, need not be downhearted. The central panel of The Virgin and Child - appropriate at this time of year - is still there in the gallery's permanent collection, and a larger exhibition of works by his contemporary, Pisanello, will remain open until 13 January.
The beguiling old gossip Giorgio Vasari relates, in his biography of Masaccio, how Pisanello met Masaccio in Rome and admired his work in 1427, the last year of Masaccio's short life. One wishes Vasari's story was trustworthy, although probably it is not. A conversation between the ...