Background
Eisenberg, Marvin Julius was born on August 19, 1922 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Frank and Rosalie (Julius) Eisenberg.
( Marvin Eisenberg examines the art of Lorenzo Monaco, th...)
Marvin Eisenberg examines the art of Lorenzo Monaco, the Camaldolese monk who was the preeminent Florentine painter during the two decades before the advent of Masaccio and Fra Angelico. In Don Lorenzo's works, which are among the most expressively beautiful images in late medieval European art, traditional Christian themes and elegant Late Gothic forms were infused with a fervent monastic devotion. His earliest panels and miniatures, of the 1390s, reflect various stylistic trends in later fourteenth-century Florentine painting and sculpture; in his maturity he assimilated elements of the International Style into an essentially Tuscan idiom; the final works, from the early 1420s, convey a degree of recognition of the emergent Renaissance. This is the first comprehensive book on the art of Lorenzo Monaco since 1905, including an essay on his principal works, an extensive catalogue of the altarpieces, crucifixes, choir book miniatures, and frescoes by Don Lorenzo and his prolific shop, and a catalogue of other works ascribed to him. The book is lavishly illustrated, and numerous comparative illustrations provide the artist's work with a visual context.
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Eisenberg, Marvin Julius was born on August 19, 1922 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Frank and Rosalie (Julius) Eisenberg.
Bachelor, University Pennsylvania, 1943. Master of Fine Arts, Princeton, 1949. Doctor of Philosophy, Princeton, 1954.
Doctor of Literature (honorary), St Andrews, 2003.
Member faculty University Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1949-1989, professor art history, chairman department, 1960-1969, Collegiate professor, 1974-1975, professor emeritus, since 1989. Member Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, 1970. Visiting committee Freer Gallery Art, Washington, 1970-1996, department fine arts Harvard University, 1975-1981, Commission on Preservation and Access, Washington, 1991-1994, Georgia Museum Art, since 1997.
Visiting professor Stanford University, 1973, Mount Holyoke College, 1995. Distinguished Berg professor Colorado College, 1990, 93, 95, 97, 2000, 02. Hooker distinguished visiting professor McMaster University, 1993.
Robert Lehman lecturer Bowdoin College, 1985. Saunders lecturer St Andrews University, 1998. Lecturer University Dayton, 2002.
Advisory committee Center for Advanced Study in Visual Arts, National Gallery, Washington, 1981-1984.
( Marvin Eisenberg examines the art of Lorenzo Monaco, th...)
Served with Army of the United States, 1943-1946. Fellow Japan Society for Promotion of Science. Member College Art Association American (director 1965-1970, vice president 1966-1967, president 1968-1969), Royal Society Arts (Benjamin Franklin fellow 1969), Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Pi Gamma Museum.