European Art Of The Fifteenth Century

Author : Stefano Zuffi
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780892368310
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book European Art of the Fifteenth Century written by Stefano Zuffi and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2005 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Influenced by a revival of interest in Greco-Roman ideals and sponsored by a newly prosperous merchant class, fifteenth-century artists produced works of astonishingly innovative content and technique. The International Gothic style of painting, still popular at the beginning of the century, was giving way to the influence of Early Netherlandish Flemish masters such as Jan van Eyck, who emphasized narrative and the complex use of light for symbolic meaning. Patrons favored paintings in oil and on wooden panels for works ranging from large, hinged altarpieces to small, increasingly lifelike portraits. In the Italian city-states of Florence, Venice, and Mantua, artists and architects alike perfected existing techniques and developed new ones. The painter Masaccio mastered linear perspective; the sculptor Donatello produced anatomically correct but idealized figures such as his bronze nude of David; and the brilliant architect and engineer Brunelleschi integrated Gothic and Renaissance elements to build the self-supporting dome of the Florence Cathedral. This beautifully illustrated guide analyzes the most important people, places, and concepts of this early Renaissance period, whose explosion of creativity was to spread throughout Europe in the sixteenth century

Author : Stefano Zuffi
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780892368464
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book European Art of the Sixteenth Century written by Stefano Zuffi and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2006 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the sixteenth century, the humanist values and admiration for classical antiquity that marked the early Renaissance spread from Italy throughout the rest of the continent. Part of the "Art through the Centuries" series, this volume is divided into three sections that discuss the important people, concepts, and artistic centres of this period.

Author : Rosa Giorgi
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780892369348
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book European Art of the Seventeenth Century written by Rosa Giorgi and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2008 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents the most noteworthy concepts, artists, and cultural centers of the seventeenth century through a close examination of many of its greatest paintings, sculptures, and buildings. The Baroque, rooted in classicism but with a new emphasis on emotionalism and naturalism, was the leading style of the seventeenth century. The movement exhibited both stylistic complexity and great diversity in its subject matter, from large religious works and history paintings to portraits, landscapes, and scenes of everyday life. Masters of the era included Caravaggio, whose innovations in the dramatic uses of light and shadow influenced many of the century's artists, notably Rembrandt; the sculptor, painter, and architect Bernini, with his combination of technical brilliance and expressiveness; and other familiar names such as Rubens, Poussin, Velázquez, and Vermeer. This was the era of absolute monarchs, including Spain's Habsburgs and Louis XIII and XIV of France, whose artistic patronage helped furnish their opulent palaces. But a new era of commercialism, in which artists increasingly catered to affluent collectors of the professional and merchant classes, also flourished.

Author : Sandra Baragli
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780892368594
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book European Art of the Fourteenth Century written by Sandra Baragli and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2007 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteenth-century Europe was ravaged by famine, war, and, most devastatingly, the Black Plague. These widespread crises inspired a mystical religiosity, which emphasized both ecstatic joy and extreme suffering, producing emotionally charged and often graphic depictions of the Crucifixion and the martyrdoms of the saints. This third volume in the Art through the Centuries series highlights the most noteworthy concepts, geographic centers, and artists of this turbulent century. Important facts about the subjects under discussion are summarized in the margins of each entry, and salient features of the illustrated art works are identified and discussed.

Author : Peter W. Parshall
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300113390
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Origins of European Printmaking written by Peter W. Parshall and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive history of late medieval printmaking, which transformed image production and led to profound changes in Western culture

Author : Luís Urbano Afonso
Publisher : Harvey Miller
ISBN 13 : 9781909400597
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Sephardic Book Art of the 15th Century written by Luís Urbano Afonso and published by Harvey Miller. This book was released on 2020-06-25 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The current volume presents ten different studies dealing with the final stages of Hebrew book art production in medieval Iberia. Ranging from the Farhi Codex, copied and illuminated in the late 14th century, to the Philadelphia Bible, copied and illuminated in Lisbon in 1496, this volume discusses a wide scope of topics related with the production, consumption and circulation of medieval decorated Hebrew manuscripts. Among the issues discussed in this volume we highlight the role played by three distinct artistic languages (Mudejar, Late Gothic and Renaissance) in the shapping of 15th century Sephardic illumination, the codicological specificity of some solutions in terms of layout and the relation between the layout of these manuscripts and Hebrew incunabula, the use of geometric decoration in scientific diagrams, or the afterlife of these manuscripts in Europe and Asia following the expulsion of the Jews from Iberia.

Author : Michael Baxandall
Publisher : Oxford Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 9780192821447
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Painting and Experience in Fifteenth Century Italy written by Michael Baxandall and published by Oxford Paperbacks. This book was released on 1988 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to 15th century Italian painting and the social history behind it, arguing that the two are interlinked and that the conditions of the time helped fashion distinctive elements in the painter's style.

Author : Marcia B. Hall
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300237197
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Power of Color written by Marcia B. Hall and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beautifully illustrated volume explores the history of color across five centuries of European painting, unfolding layers of artistic, cultural, and political meaning through a deep understanding of technique.

Author : Frédéric Elsig
Publisher : 5Continents
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Painting in France in the 15th Century written by Frédéric Elsig and published by 5Continents. This book was released on 2004 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This examination of a distinctive period of French painting discusses the interrelated artistic cities and regions that formed essential links in Renaissance-era artistic exchanges. The interaction between the French courts and Paris during the International Gothic period, the diffusion of ars nova in France during the days of Charles VII and Louis XI, and the standardization of a French style based on Jean Fouquet's model are among the artistic geographies considered in this analysis. Reproductions of key works that illustrate cultural confluences accompany an updated introduction to the scholarship of these relationships.

Author : Adrian W. B. Randolph
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300092127
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Engaging Symbols written by Adrian W. B. Randolph and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Randolph shows how "engaging" political symbols were grounded in a revolutionary way in amorous discourses that drew on metaphors of affection, desire, courtship, betrothal, marriage, homo- and hetero-eroticism, and procreation."--BOOK JACKET.