Public Painting and Visual Culture in Early Republican Florence

Public Painting and Visual Culture in Early Republican Florence
Author: George Bent
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2017-01-16
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1316810720

Street corners, guild halls, government offices, and confraternity centers contained paintings that made the city of Florence a visual jewel at precisely the time of its emergence as an international cultural leader. This book considers the paintings that were made specifically for consideration by lay viewers, as well as the way they could have been interpreted by audiences who approached them with specific perspectives. Their belief in the power of images, their understanding of the persuasiveness of pictures, and their acceptance of the utterly vital role that art could play as a propagator of civic, corporate, and individual identity made lay viewers keenly aware of the paintings in their midst. Those pictures affirmed the piety of the people for whom they were made in an age of social and political upheaval, as the city experimented with an imperfect form of republicanism that often failed to adhere to its declared aspirations.

Art and Love in Renaissance Italy

Art and Love in Renaissance Italy
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Total Pages: 394
Release: 2008
Genre: Art del Renaixement
ISBN: 1588393003

"Many famous artworks of the Italian Renaissance were made to celebrate love, marriage, and family. They were the pinnacles of a tradition, dating from early in the era, of commemorating betrothals, marriages, and the birth of children by commissioning extraordinary objects - maiolica, glassware, jewels, textiles, paintings - that were often also exchanged as gifts. This volume is the first comprehensive survey of artworks arising from Renaissance rituals of love and marriage and makes a major contribution to our understanding of Renaissance art in its broader cultural context. The impressive range of works gathered in these pages extends from birth trays painted in the early fifteenth century to large canvases on mythological themes that Titian painted in the mid-1500s. Each work of art would have been recognized by contemporary viewers for its prescribed function within the private, domestic domain."--BOOK JACKET.

The Panorama of the Renaissance

The Panorama of the Renaissance
Author: Margaret Aston
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2000-03-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780810981881

The great turning point of Western civilization that we call the Renaissance marked the emergence of the modern world from the Dark Ages. This ingenious, profusely illustrated book presents the entire epoch of the Renaissance through a spectacular array of images and invites readers to follow the great lives, explore the themes, and witness the major events of this exciting era.

The Traveling Artist in the Italian Renaissance

The Traveling Artist in the Italian Renaissance
Author: David Young Kim
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2014-12-23
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0300198671

This important and innovative book examines artists' mobility as a critical aspect of Italian Renaissance art. It is well known that many eminent artists such as Cimabue, Giotto, Donatello, Lotto, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Titian traveled. This book is the first to consider the sixteenth-century literary descriptions of their journeys in relation to the larger Renaissance discourse concerning mobility, geography, the act of creation, and selfhood. David Young Kim carefully explores relevant themes in Giorgio Vasari's monumental Lives of the Artists, in particular how style was understood to register an artist's encounter with place. Through new readings of critical ideas, long-standing regional prejudices, and entire biographies, The Traveling Artist in the Italian Renaissance provides a groundbreaking case for the significance of mobility in the interpretation of art and the wider discipline of art history.

How to Read Italian Renaissance Painting

How to Read Italian Renaissance Painting
Author: Stefano Zuffi
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010-03-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780810989405

Zuffi reveals the world of the Renaissance masters in a new and rich light. Each spread uses an important painting as a way to explain a key concept. Includes brief biographies of the major artists, provided an accessible introduction to the art and culture of the Italian Renaissance.

Italian Renaissance Painting

Italian Renaissance Painting
Author: James H. Beck
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Total Pages: 502
Release: 1981
Genre: Art
ISBN:

"This knowledgeable, useful and up-to-date survey of one of the greatest periods in Western painting, from Masaccio through Titian, covers some fifty artists and their work and includes nearly 400 illustrations integrated with the text. James Beck of Columbia University gives biographical information on each artist and discusses and analyzes his artistic style, achievement and most significant works." /

Music in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

Music in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Author: Harold Gleason
Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing
Total Pages: 226
Release: 1981
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780882843797

This is a complete revision of the second edition, designed as a guide and resource in the study of music from the earliest times through the Renaissance period. The authors have completely revised and updated the bibliographies; in general they are limited to English language sources. In order to facilitate study of this period and to use materials efficiently, references to facsimiles, monumental editions, complete composers' works and specialized anthologies are given. The authors present this systematic organization in this volume in the hope that students, teachers, and performers may find in it a ready tool for developing a comprehensive understanding of the music of this period.

Art in Renaissance Italy, 1350-1500

Art in Renaissance Italy, 1350-1500
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).

Italian Renaissance Art

Italian Renaissance Art
Author: Christiane L. Joost-Gaugier
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2013-03-04
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1118306112

Richly illustrated, and featuring detailed descriptions of works by pivotal figures in the Italian Renaissance, this enlightening volume traces the development of art and architecture throughout the Italian peninsula in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. A smart, elegant, and jargon-free analysis of the Italian Renaissance – what it was, what it means, and why we should study it Provides a sustained discussion of many great works of Renaissance art that will significantly enhance readers’ understanding of the period Focuses on Renaissance art and architecture as it developed throughout the Italian peninsula, from Venice to Sicily Situates the Italian Renaissance in the wider context of the history of art Includes detailed interpretation of works by a host of pivotal Renaissance artists, both well and lesser known

Music and Visual Culture in Renaissance Italy

Music and Visual Culture in Renaissance Italy
Author: Chriscinda Henry
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 411
Release: 2023-05-24
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1000875334

The chapters in this volume explore the relationship between music and art in Italy across the long sixteenth century, considering an era when music-making was both a subject of Italian painting and a central metaphor in treatises on the arts. Beginning in the fifteenth century, transformations emerge in the depiction of music within visual arts, the conceptualization of music in ethics and poetics, and in the practice of musical harmony. This book brings together contributors from across musicology and art history to consider the trajectories of these changes and the connections between them, both in theory and in the practices of everyday life. In sixteen chapters, the contributors blend iconographic analysis with a wider range of approaches, investigate the discourse surrounding the arts, and draw on both social art history and the material turn in Renaissance studies. They address not only paintings and sculpture, but also a wide range of visual media and domestic objects, from instruments to tableware, to reveal a rich, varied, and sometimes tumultuous exchange among musical and visual arts and ideas. Enriching our understanding of the subtle intersections between visual, material, and musical arts across the long Renaissance, this book offers new insights for scholars of music, art, and cultural history. Chapter 15 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.