The art of the Renaissance
"The Renaissance began in Italy, but it was not a purely Italian phenomenon. It grew out of European civilizatioin, with roots in antiquity, in Christian dogma, and in Byzantium. The authors follow this growth to the Florence of 1420 and the artistic ferment seething there, to the fascinating r...
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New York,
Praeger
[1963]
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Acquisition Notes: | Gift of Anne d'Harnoncourt and Joseph Rishel |
| Series: | Books that matter.
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Table of Contents:
- The Renaissance / Humanism / Classical antiquity / Changing conceptions of Renaissnace / Historical background / The arts of Florence 1400-1450 / the International Gothic Style / the Heroic Style of Masaccio / Donanello / Ghiberti / Brunelleschi / Alberti / The Netherlands and Bohemia / the Soft Style / the Eyckian Revolution / Campin / the mid-century in Italy: Florence / Mantegna / Piero della Francesca / Siena / The mid-century in the Netherlands: Rogier van der Weyden / Bouts and Memlinc / France / Germany (Cologne) / Spain and Portugal / Austria / Printing and early illustrated books / engraving / Durer / Late Gothic / Hugo van der Goes / Bosch / Grunewald / Botticelli / Filippino / Piero di Cosimo / Leonardo da Vinci and the Milanese Renaissance / Perugino and Early Classicism / Ghirlandaio / Antonello da Messina / Venice / Bellini / The beginnings of the High Renaissance.