Italian Renaissance Art
by Stephen J. Campbell, Michael W. Cole
ISBN-10: 0500289433
ISBN-13: 9780500289433
$130.00
Book Specs
Binding
Trade Paper
Publisher
Thames & Hudson
Published on
Oct 19, 2011
Edition
1st Edition
Dimensions
8.90x1.20x10.90 Inches
Weight
4.60 Pounds
About the Book
Drawing on the most recent scholarship, this book is accessible to students and non-specialist readers, telling the story of art in the great centers of Rome, Florence, and Venice, while profiling a range of other cities and sites throughout Italy. While the book presents the classic canon of Renaissance painting and sculpture in full, it expands the scope of conventional surveys by offering a more through coverage of architecture, decorative and domestic art, and print media. Rather than emphasizing artists' biographies, this new account concentrates on the works, discussing means of production, the place for which images were made, concerns of patrons, and the expectation and responses of the works first viewers. Renaissance art is seen as decidedly new, a moment in the history of art whose concerns persist in the present.