which doesn't have quite the same strangely furtive, suspicious feel.
Addendum, December 2016
Returning to this post nearly 10 years later, I find plenty of information on Jacopo di Cione online and also some possibilities for the painting seen in 2007, which I can't remember exactly -
Detail from The Ascenscion (via) |
Detail from the San Pier Maggiore Altarpiece 1370-1371 (via) |
Nardo collaborated with another Cione brother, Orcagna, on the frescos in the Strozzi chapel of Santa Maria Novella in Florence, for instance on this Last Judgment -
This site looks a bit ropey ("online since 1996") but clicking on the thumbnails gives good details. Hell is particularly impressive - but without any of the covert glances seen elsewhere.
It's all a long way from 6th century Ethiopia!
3 comments:
Hi margaret, whereabouts are the coptic eyes? I love the british museum but haven;t seen this.
I'd love to do a quilt with eyes. Thinking about scanning family photos and clipping just the eyes. Would be interesting to compare the same set of eyes over the span of a lifetime, or intermingle my brothers' eyes to see if they were distinguishable one from another without other visual clues.
Love the Eyes, Margaret.
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