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May - (O)F.
mai :- L.
Maius prop. pert. to
Māia, Italic goddess, daughter of Faunus and wife of Vulcan (later identified with Gr.
Maîa).
Hence
May-day XV.
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Masolino da Panicale.
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 12/22/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...painting and in part because Masolino was older, having been born...authorship and style. Each phase of Masolino's career is covered in an...reasonably, that Gentile da Fabriano's influence, and...Monaco's, was more lasting on Masolino than Masaccio's. As Roberts...
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John Otte: Whitespace.
Magazine article from: Artforum International; 4/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...fifteenth-century Italian painter Masolino da Panicale, who reveled in the ornamentation...for itself more directly than Masolino was able to do, but also presents...elegiac about this fragment from Masolino, and an elegiac impulse has become...
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John Otte
Magazine article from: Artforum; 4/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...fifteenth-century Italian painter Masolino da Panicale, who reveled in the ornamentation...for itself more directly than Masolino was able to do, but also presents...elegiac about this fragment from Masolino, and an elegiac impulse has become...
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Love: Annunciations: Mother of God, this art is holy hilarious
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman; 7/30/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...more elaborately equipped, with major draperies accessorised, as befits their profession, by haloes and wings. Masolino da Panicale puts Gabriel in a dress smothered in flowers that would do William Morris proud. Signorelli has the angel in a...
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VISITORS FROM ANOTHER PLANET; Experts have long puzzled over bizarre flying objects appearing in Old Masters. We've had cherubs and angels. Now, an academic says,we've got.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 12/4/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...says Volterri. The Independence Day-style 'alien invasion force' is a feature of The Miracle Of The Snow by Masolino da Panicale, painted in 1429. It shows a fleet of disc-like objects swarming over an idealised Rome. According to Volterri...
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Mystery photo contest: name that UFO!
Magazine article from: Current Science, a Weekly Reader publication; 12/3/2004; 700+ words
; ...object that is a common sight at night, particularly in November. What might it be? 2. The Italian painter Masolino da Panicale created this artwork, II Miracolo Della Neve, in 1428. UFOlogists contend that the objects in the sky are a...
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Hometown boy: Piero della Francesca in Arezzo: there are some impressive and illuminating loans to this courageous monographic exhibition on Piero della Francesca in the province of Arezzo, but there are also too many irrelevant works. Tom Henry asks how useful is it for an artist to be celebrated in his home town?(EXHIBITIONS)(Museo Statale d'Arte Medievale e Moderna)
Magazine article from: Apollo; 6/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Valdarno, Sodoma is coming to Vercelli and we await Masolino in Panicale, Michelangelo in Caprese and Titian in Cadore (or...theoretical writings and distant echoes (what have Vicino da Ferrara, Lorenzo Costa and the Maestro della Pala dei...
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Masolino da Panicale
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists
Masolino da Panicale ( Tommaso di Cristofano ) ( c. 1383...intriguing figure. He presumably came from Panicale in Umbria, and he worked in various...remains ill-defined (the nickname Masolino, meaning ‘Little Tom...
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Masaccio (1401–1428)
Book article from: The Renaissance
...He collaborated with Tommaso Masolino on a polyptych, or multipaneled...to Masaccio and his collaborator Masolino da Panicale. The paintings include depictions...Michelangelo Buonarroti, Leonardo da Vinci, Sandro Botticelli, Andrea...
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Masaccio
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...an early work in collaboration with the painter Masolino da Panicale ; and his masterpiece—a major monument in...Chapel of Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence, begun by Masolino and completed many years later by Filippino Lippi...
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Italian art
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...manifest in the works of Lorenzo Monaco, Gentile da Fabriano, Masolino da Panicale, and to a certain extent Pisanello. The Quattrocento...Brunelleschi. Other sculptors, such as Desiderio da Settignano, Antonio Rossellino, and Bertoldo di...
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