Background
Hall, Marcia Brown was born on July 13, 1939 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Daughter of Charles Edward Brown and Frances Peebles Ocheltree.
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Michelangelo's frescoes in the Sistine Chapel - the great glory of Vatican art and one of the most treasured masterpieces of Western painting - provide a visual feast for art lovers in this magnificent, affordable new book. Presenting a complete survey of the restored Sistine Chapel frescoes from Creation scenes to The Last Judgment, this book includes a new text by a prominent American art history scholar. The stunning photographs, previously published by Abrams in two separate volumes, show brilliant details as well as large, overall views. There is no other one-volume work on the Sistine Chapel offering such a clear, concise introduction to this perennially popular subject.
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After Raphael is the first overview of sixteenth-century Italian painting to be published in over thirty years. Reevaluating the paintings of Raphael, Michelangelo, Pontormo, Bronzino and their followers in the light of recent research, Marcia Hall offers a new interpretation for the stylistic shifts that occurred after 1520. By taking into account the social, cultural, political, theological, and patronage issues that affected taste and stylistic developments, she demonstrates how the revival of interest in antique Roman sculpture relief affected Mannerist painters. She also examines the repercussions of the Reformation, which changed forever the Church's view of the function of images.
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(Recent restoration campaigns, particularly to the Sistine...)
Recent restoration campaigns, particularly to the Sistine Chapel, have focused attention on the importance of colour in our experience of paintings, but until recently it has been neglected by art historians. The author believes that the work of art can only be fully appreciated when it is regarded as the product of both the artist's hand and mind. This study utilizes the traditional sources, such as contemporary theoretical writings and iconographical analysis, but in addition draws on the scientific findings of the conservation laboratories. This is a new body of data assembled in large part since World War II, which art historians are only beginning to exploit to fill out the history of technique. Rather than writing merely a history of technique, however, the author has integrated this material with traditional approaches to cultural history. She undertakes to examine twenty major paintings of the period from Giotto to Tintoretto to elucidate how colour and technique contribute to their meaning. She gives us then, the first modern consideration of Renaissance paintings both as physical objects and as monuments of cultural history.
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Hall, Marcia Brown was born on July 13, 1939 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Daughter of Charles Edward Brown and Frances Peebles Ocheltree.
Bachelor, Wellesley College, 1960. Master of Arts, Radcliffe College, 1962. Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1967.
Visiting lecturer Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1967-1971. Assistant professor, professor Temple University, Phila, since 1973. Director National Endowment of the Humanities summer seminar, Rome, 1992.
(Michelangelo's frescoes in the Sistine Chapel - the great...)
(Recent restoration campaigns, particularly to the Sistine...)
(Recent restoration campaigns, particularly to the Sistine...)
(After Raphael is the first overview of sixteenth-century ...)
Member College Art Association, 16th Century Studies, Renaissance Society of America.
Married Charles Arthur Mann Hall, June 9, 1961 (divorced May 1990). Children: Christopher Martin, Brian Starbuck. Married Gerald Richard Hoepfner, December 18, 1991.