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The Lucchese School, also known as the School of Lucca and as the Pisan-Lucchese School, was a school of painting and sculpture that flourished in the 11th and 12th centuries in Pisa and
The Lucchese School, also known as the School of Lucca and as the Pisan-Lucchese School, was a school of painting and sculpture that flourished in the 11th and 12th centuries in Pisa and Lucca
Lucca ( , ) is a city and ''comune'' in Tuscany, Central Italy, on the Serchio River, in a fertile plain near the Ligurian Sea. The city has a population of about 89,000, while its province has a population of 383,957.
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with affinities to painters in Volterra
Volterra (; Latin: ''Volaterrae'') is a walled mountaintop town in the Tuscany region of Italy. Its history dates from before the 8th century BC and it has substantial structures from the Etruscan, Roman, and Medieval periods.
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. The art is mostly anonymous. Although not as elegant or delicate as the Florentine School, Lucchese works are remarkable for their monumentality.
See also
* Bolognese School * Florentine School * School of Ferrara * Sienese SchoolReferences
* Garrison, Edward B., ''Toward a New History of Early Lucchese Painting'', The Art Bulletin, Vol. 33, No. 1 (Mar., 1951), 11-31. * Lasareff, Victor, ''Two Newly-Discovered Pictures of the Lucca School'', The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs, Vol. 51, No. 293 (Aug., 1927), 56-67. * Sturgis, Russell, ''A dictionary of architecture and building, biographical, historical, and descriptive'', Vol. 2, New York, The Macmillan company, 1901, 565. {{authority control Italian art movements Painters from Tuscany Romanesque art