Early Italian Painting
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Author | : Joseph Archer Crowe |
Publisher | : Parkstone International |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2023-12-28 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1783103922 |
Oscillating between the majesty of the Greco-Byzantine tradition and the modernity predicted by Giotto, Early Italian Painting addresses the first important aesthetic movement that would lead to the Renaissance, the Italian Primitives. Trying new mediums and techniques, these revolutionary artists no longer painted frescos on walls, but created the first mobile paintings on wooden panels. The faces of the figures were painted to shock the spectator in order to emphasise the divinity of the character being represented. The bright gold leafed backgrounds were used to highlight the godliness of the subject. The elegance of both line and colour were combined to reinforce specific symbolic choices. Ultimately the Early Italian artists wished to make the invisible visible. In this magnificent book, the authors emphasise the importance that the rivalry between the Sienese and Florentine schools played in the evolution of art history. The reader will discover how the sacred began to take a more human form through these forgotten masterworks, opening a discrete but definitive door through the use of anthropomorphism, a technique that would be cherished by the Renaissance.
Author | : Robert Brennan |
Publisher | : Harvey Miller |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Art, Modern |
ISBN | : 9781912554003 |
"Painting as a Modern Art in Early Renaissance Italy" reconstructs a historical concept of modern art on the basis of sources written between the 1390s and 1440s. The central point of reference in these sources was Giotto, the early fourteenth-century painter who, as one writer put it in 1442, "first modernized (modernizavit) ancient and mosaic figures." The word "modern" was used in a wide variety of ways throughout this period, some quite polemical, others rather prosaic. To call art (ars) modern, however, was to invoke a stable, well-defined concept whose roots ran deep in late-medieval intellectual life. According to this concept, to make an art modern was to set it on a new foundation in science (scientia) and rationalize it accordingly. As familiar as this formulation may sound in principle, each and every one of its key terms--art, modernity, science, rationality--meant something strikingly different in this period than it does in our time. The hallmark of modern art was not verisimilitude or expression or virtually any of the achievements that art historians associate with Giotto today, but rather the invention of techniques that aimed to imitate nature in its very manner of operation, aligning the concrete, step-by-step process of painting with the inner workings of nature itself. By reclaiming this concept and tracking its complex relation to early Renaissance concerns such as linear perspective and the canon of proportion, the book not only establishes a novel framework for the visual analysis of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Italian painting, but also unravels a fundamental master narrative of Western art history from within, clearing the way for renewed discussions of alternative modernities, including those that precede the story of modernism as we know it. --Publisher's website.
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Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Art, Early Renaissance |
ISBN | : 9780271048307 |
Even many Renaissance specialists believe that little secular painting survives before the late fifteenth century, and its appearance becomes a further argument for the secularizing of art. This book asks how history changes when a longer record of secular art is explored. It is the first study in any language of the decoration of Italian palaces and homes between 1300 and the mid-Quattrocento, and it argues that early secular painting was crucial to the development of modern ideas of art. Of the cycles discussed, some have been studied and published, but most are essentially unknown. A first aim is to enrich our understanding of the early Renaissance by introducing a whole corpus of secular painting that has been too long overlooked. Yet "Painted palaces" is not a study of iconography. In examining the prehistory of painted rooms like Mantegna's Camera Picta, the larger goal is to rethink the history of early Renaissance art.
Author | : Michael Baxandall |
Publisher | : Oxford Paperbacks |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780192821447 |
An introduction to 15th century Italian painting and the social history behind it, arguing that the two are interlinked and that the conditions of the time helped fashion distinctive elements in the painter's style.
Author | : Evelyn S. Welch |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780192842794 |
"Focuses primarliy on the social and historical context in which art was made and used"--Bibliographic essay (p. 326).
Author | : Paul Hills |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 1990-01-01 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780300046984 |
This book will appeal not only to all students of Italian Renaissance painting but also to everyone interested in representational painting in general, for it offers a new perspective on the appreciation of works of art.
Author | : Graham Hughes |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Art, Renaissance |
ISBN | : |
"This book introduces, for the first time in English, a fascinating yet strangely neglected aspect of Italian Renaissance art. During the quattrocento painting became more popular and probably more beautiful than at any time before or since. House interiors and furniture were painted with exotic stories and symbols, one of the most fashionable possessions in the grandest room in the palazzo being the painted cassone or marriage chest." /
Author | : Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
Published in conjunction with a 1994-95 exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Historical and technical introductions precede extensive discussion of two altarpieces of the early Renaissance and a catalogue of the Museum's collection. Elegantly designed and produced, with color and bandw reproductions. 9x12 Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : Edward B. Garrison |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
Edward Garrison's work on early Italian panels resulted in the publication in 1949 of the first comprehensive index of Romanesque Italian panel painting, which remains the standard work of reference on the subject. Subsequently, his four-volume Studies in the History of Medieval Italian Painting, published in Florence between 1953 and 1962, represents the most considerable body of research yet published on Italian miniature and panel painting from the eleventh to the thirteenth centuries. These two volumes collect together all the author's articles on Italian fresco and panel painting which have been published in art-historical journals since 1945. This provides both an indispensable supplement to the author's earlier Studies in the History of Medieval Italian Painting, and in including three successive Addenda to his Index of Italian Romanesque Panel Paintings, also serves the function of updating the earlier publications.
Author | : |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780271043661 |