Architecture in Italy, 1400-1500

Architecture in Italy, 1400-1500
Author: Karl Heinrich Heydenreich
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 198
Release: 1996-01-01
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0300064675

Brunelleschi - Ghiberti and Donatello - Alberti - Florence 1450-1480 - Urbino - Venice - Lombardy - Leonardo da Vinci.

Architecture in Italy, 1400 to 1600

Architecture in Italy, 1400 to 1600
Author: Ludwig Heinrich Heydenreich
Publisher: [Harmondsworth, Eng. ; Baltimore] : Penguin Books
Total Pages: 698
Release: 1974
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

In 15th-century Florence, Brunelleschi's buildings and Alberti's treatise first established the principles of Italian Renaissance architecture in practice and theory. This survey ranges from Brunelleschi's dome for the Florence Cathedral to the works of Bramante and Leonardo in the Quattrocento.

Architecture in Italy, 1500-1600

Architecture in Italy, 1500-1600
Author: Wolfgang Lotz
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 222
Release: 1995-01-01
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0300064691

This classic work presents a stimulating survey of the most exciting and innovative period in the history of architecture. Lotz also goes beyond the more familiar locations, architects and buildings to conquer less well-known territories, exploring Piedmont and Vitozzi and ending with a study of bizzarrie.

Italian Art, 1500-1600

Italian Art, 1500-1600
Author: Robert Klein
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Total Pages: 220
Release: 1989
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780810108523

Art and the cultured public - Documents on art and artists - Mid-century Venetian art criticism - Vasari - Art theory in the second half of the century - The Counter-Reformation - Artists, amateurs and collectors - On beauty.

Italian Art, 1400-1500

Italian Art, 1400-1500
Author: Creighton Gilbert
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1992
Genre: Art, Early Renaissance
ISBN: 9780810110342

Creighton E. Gilbert captures the spirit of the early Renaissance in this remarkable collection of primary texts by and about artists of the fifteenth century. Italian Art makes a valuable contribution not only to the field of art history, but also to social and intellectual history. Almost all aspects of the life of the period--war, fashion, travel, communication--are documented. Revealing significant aspects of the practice of art, the process of patronage, and the way of life and social position of early Renaissance artists, Italian Art brings this fascinating period to life for students and scholars.

The Cambridge History of Fifteenth-Century Music

The Cambridge History of Fifteenth-Century Music
Author: Anna Maria Busse Berger
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 1058
Release: 2015-07-16
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1316298299

Through forty-five creative and concise essays by an international team of authors, this Cambridge History brings the fifteenth century to life for both specialists and general readers. Combining the best qualities of survey texts and scholarly literature, the book offers authoritative overviews of central composers, genres, and musical institutions as well as new and provocative reassessments of the work concept, the boundaries between improvisation and composition, the practice of listening, humanism, musical borrowing, and other topics. Multidisciplinary studies of music and architecture, feasting, poetry, politics, liturgy, and religious devotion rub shoulders with studies of compositional techniques, musical notation, music manuscripts, and reception history. Generously illustrated with figures and examples, this volume paints a vibrant picture of musical life in a period characterized by extraordinary innovation and artistic achievement.

Romanesque Renaissance

Romanesque Renaissance
Author: Konrad Adriaan Ottenheym
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 456
Release: 2021-01-11
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9004446621

In the renaissance also architecture from c. 800–1200 was regarded as a useful source of inspiration for contemporary building, sometimes by misinterpreting these medieval architecture as roman structures, sometimes because that era was also regarded as a glorious ‘ancient’ past.