Bibliograph

Art in Renaissance Italy, John T. Paoletti & Gary M. Radke

Type

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Art in Renaissance Italy, John T. Paoletti & Gary M. Radke

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 558-565) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Art in Renaissance Italy

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

750153998

Responsibility statement

John T. Paoletti & Gary M. Radke

Summary

"With a freshness and breadth of approach that sets the art in its context, this book explores why works were created and who commissioned the palaces, cathedrals, paintings and sculptures. It covers Rome and Florence, Venice and the Veneto, Assisi, Siena, Milan, Pavia, Genoa, Padua, Mantua, Verona, Ferrara, Urbino and Naples. Chapters are grouped into four chronological parts, allowing for a sustained examination of individual cities in different periods. 'Contemporary Scene' boxes provide fascinating glimpses of daily life and 'Contemporary Voice' boxes quote from painters and writers of the time. Innovative and scholarly, yet accessible and beautifully presented, this book is a definitive work on the Italian Renaissance. This revised edition contains around 200 new pictures and nearly all colour images ..."--Publisher description

Table Of Contents

pt. 1. The late thirteenth and the fourteenth century. The origins of the Renaissance -- Rome: artists, popes, and cardinals -- Assisi and Padua: narrative realism -- Florence: traditions and innovations -- Siena: city of the virgin -- Naples: art for a royal kingdom -- Venice: the most serene republic -- Pisa and Florence: social upheaval -- Visconti Milan and Carrara Padua -- pt. 2. The fifteenth century. Florence: commune and guild -- Florence: the Medici and political propaganda -- Rome: re-establishing papal power -- Venice: affirming the past and present -- Courtly art: the Gothic and Classic -- Sforza Milan: ducal splendor -- pt. 3. The first half of the sixteenth century. Florence: the renewed republic -- Rome: Julius II, Leo X, and Clement VII -- Florence: mannerism and the Medici -- Mantua, Parma, and Genoa: the arts of court -- Venice: vision and monumentality -- pt. 4. The later sixteenth century. The Rome of Paul III -- Northern Italy: reform and innovation -- Florence under Cosimo -- Rome: a European capital city

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