5-480: According to the theory of the art historian Marcia B. Hall , which has gained considerable acceptance, unione ( Italian: [uˈnjoːne] ) is one of the canonical painting modes of the Renaissance ; that is, one of four modes of painting colours available to Italian High Renaissance painters, along with sfumato , chiaroscuro and cangiante . Unione was developed by Raphael , who exemplified it in
10-614: A Fulbright Fellowship in 1963 to research her dissertation on the renovations in the late 16th century to Santa Maria Novella and Santa Croce , supervised by Sydney Joseph Freedberg at Harvard University . She is also the first scholar to discover the rood screen in both churches once removed by Giorgio Vasari during the Counter-Reformation . She earned her PhD from Harvard in 1967. She has been teaching art history class relates to Italian Renaissance at Temple University since 1973. Her visiting fellowships include
15-468: The Stanza della Segnatura . Unione is similar to sfumato, but is more useful for the edges of chiaroscuro, where vibrant colors are involved. As with chiaroscuro, unione conveys the contrasts, and as sfumato it strives for harmony and unity, but also for coloristic richness. Unione is softer than chiaroscuro in the search for the right tonal key. There should be the harmony between light and dark, without
20-682: The excesses and accentuation of a chiaroscuro mode. This article related to art techniques is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Marcia B. Hall Marcia Hall (born 1939), who usually publishes as Marcia B. Hall , is an American art historian, who is the Laura H. Carnell Professor of Renaissance Art at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture of Temple University in Philadelphia . Hall's scholarship has concentrated on Italian Renaissance painting , mostly of
25-553: The sixteenth century, and especially Raphael and Michelangelo . Marcia Brown was born in Washington, D.C. in 1939 to Charles Edward Brown (1894–1949), a business executive, and Frances Peebles (later Ocheltree) (1901–1991). She attended Wellesley College , graduating in 1960. In 1961 she married Charles Arthur Mann Hall (1924–1990), then the Dean of Wellesley's Chapel. She earned an MA from Radcliffe College in 1962 and won
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