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.

Italian Renaissance Art

Italian Renaissance Art
Author: Stephen J. Campbell
Publisher:
Total Pages: 722
Release: 2017
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780500293348

A new edition--now in two volumes--of the largest and most comprehensive textbook about Italian Renaissance art. Now in its second edition, Italian Renaissance Art presents an updated and even more accessible history. The book has been split into two volumes: the first, covering the period 1300 to 1510; the second, 1490 to 1600. The volumes retain the same innovative decade-by-decade structure as the first edition, and a number of chapters have been revised by the authors to reflect the latest scholarship. The coverage of the Trecento has been expanded, and a new appendix section explains all the key Renaissance art-making techniques, with illustrations and step-by-steps for such processes as lost-wax casting. This book tells the story of art in the great cities of Rome, Florence, and Venice while profiling a range of other centers throughout Italy--including in this edition art from Naples, Padua, and Palermo.

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

Italian Renaissance Art

Italian Renaissance Art
Author: Laurie Schneider Adams
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 988
Release: 2018-05-04
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0429974744

"The chronology of the Italian Renaissance, its character, and context have long been a topic of discussion among scholars. Some date its beginnings to the fourteenthcentury work of Giotto, others to the generation of Masaccio, Brunelleschi, and Donatello that fl ourished from around 1400. The close of the Renaissance has also proved elusive. Mannerism, for example, is variously considered to be an independent (but subsidiary) late aspect of Renaissance style or a distinct style in its own right."

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 Art 1250-1550

Italian Art 1250-1550
Author: Bruce Cole
Publisher: Westview Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1987-05-19
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780064301626

This survey of Italian Renaissance art, from a new and different perspective, shows how art was a vital part of society and how all types of art and artists reflected the needs and aspirations of the culture from which they arose. Most books on Renaissance art are based on a chronological study of the major artists and their works. In this book, Bruce Cole covers the major types of art from c. 1250 to c. 1550, discusses their origins and development, documents their use and function, and describes their form and how and why the artists shaped them that way. Art is thus firmly connected with the life and society of the Renaissance rather than viewed as a separate entity: painting and sculpture are seen in their proper context. After a wide-ranging introduction, there are chapters on Italian Renaissance art in relation to domestic life, worship, civic life, death and afterlife, and Renaissance images and ideals.

Music in the Art of Renaissance Italy, 1420-1540

Music in the Art of Renaissance Italy, 1420-1540
Author: Tim Shephard
Publisher: Harvey Miller
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020
Genre: Art, Italian
ISBN: 9781912554027

The first detailed survey of the representation of music in the art of Renaissance Italy, opening up new vistas within the social and culture history of Italian music and art in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries.

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.