The Hidden Life Of Renaissance Art

Author : Clare Gibson
Publisher : Gardners Books
ISBN 13 : 9781887354592
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hidden Life of Renaissance Art written by Clare Gibson and published by Gardners Books. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helps you learn how to decipher the hidden meanings beneath the surface of a Renaissance masterpiece, whether sacred, mythological, allegorical, or a portrait.

Author : Clare Gibson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780760793268
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hidden Life of Renaissance Art written by Clare Gibson and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to the symbolism in Renaissance art.

Author : Evelyn S. Welch
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780192842794
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Art in Renaissance Italy, 1350-1500 written by Evelyn S. Welch and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Focuses primarliy on the social and historical context in which art was made and used"--Bibliographic essay (p. 326).

Author : Richard Stemp
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781844833221
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secret Language of the Renaissance written by Richard Stemp and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magnificently illustrated throughout, and with a six-color gold-foil cover, this remarkable book provides an all-encompassing survey of the literature, painting, sculpture, architecture, and decorative arts of the Renaissance.

Author : Clare K. Gibson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780760783016
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hidden Life of Art written by Clare K. Gibson and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Marina Belozerskaya
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 0892367857
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Luxury Arts of the Renaissance written by Marina Belozerskaya and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2005-10-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today we associate the Renaissance with painting, sculpture, and architecture—the “major” arts. Yet contemporaries often held the “minor” arts—gem-studded goldwork, richly embellished armor, splendid tapestries and embroideries, music, and ephemeral multi-media spectacles—in much higher esteem. Isabella d’Este, Marchesa of Mantua, was typical of the Italian nobility: she bequeathed to her children precious stone vases mounted in gold, engraved gems, ivories, and antique bronzes and marbles; her favorite ladies-in-waiting, by contrast, received mere paintings. Renaissance patrons and observers extolled finely wrought luxury artifacts for their exquisite craftsmanship and the symbolic capital of their components; paintings and sculptures in modest materials, although discussed by some literati, were of lesser consequence. This book endeavors to return to the mainstream material long marginalized as a result of historical and ideological biases of the intervening centuries. The author analyzes how luxury arts went from being lofty markers of ascendancy and discernment in the Renaissance to being dismissed as “decorative” or “minor” arts—extravagant trinkets of the rich unworthy of the status of Art. Then, by re-examining the objects themselves and their uses in their day, she shows how sumptuous creations constructed the world and taste of Renaissance women and men.

Author : Peter Humfrey
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300067156
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Painting in Renaissance Venice written by Peter Humfrey and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Renaissance was a golden age in the long history of Venetian painting, and the art that came from Venice during that era includes some of the most visually exciting works in the whole of western art. This attractive book - a comprehensive account of painting in Venice from Bellini to Titian to Tintoretto - is an accessible introduction to the paintings of this period. Peter Humfrey surveys the development of a distinctly Venetian artistic tradition from the middle years of the fifteenth century to the end of the sixteenth century. He discusses the work of Jacopo and Giovanni Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, Veronese and Tintoretto as well as the paintings of those less well known - such as the three Vivarini, Cima, Carpaccio, Palma Vecchio, Lorenzo Lotto and Jacopo Bassano. Humfrey analyses these painters' works in terms of their pictorial style, technique, subject matter, patronage and function. He also sets the art against the background of the political, social and religious conditions of Renaissance Venice, as outlined in his Introduction. The book includes an appendix that provides brief biographies of thirty-six of the most important painters active in Renaissance Venice.

Author : Francis Ames-Lewis
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300092950
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Intellectual Life of the Early Renaissance Artist written by Francis Ames-Lewis and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the beginning of the fifteenth century, painters and sculptors were seldom regarded as more than artisans and craftsmen, but within little more than a hundred years they had risen to the status of "artist." This book explores how early Renaissance artists gained recognition for the intellectual foundations of their activities and achieved artistic autonomy from enlightened patrons. A leading authority on Renaissance art, Francis Ames-Lewis traces the ways in which the social and intellectual concerns of painters and sculptors brought about the acceptance of their work as a liberal art, alongside other arts like poetry. He charts the development of the idea of the artist as a creative genius with a distinct identity and individuality. Ames-Lewis examines the various ways that Renaissance artists like Mantegna, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, and Dürer, as well as many other less well known painters and sculptors, pressed for intellectual independence. By writing treatises, biographies, poetry, and other literary works, by seeking contacts with humanists and literary men, and by investigating the arts of the classical past, Renaissance artists honed their social graces and broadened their intellectual horizons. They also experienced a growing creative confidence and self-awareness that was expressed in novel self-portraits, works created solely to demonstrate pictorial skills, and monuments to commemorate themselves after death.

Author : Clare Gibson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781887354509
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hidden Life of Art written by Clare Gibson and published by . This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Will open your eyes to the messages that great artists conveyed to a select few initiates through symbolic methods. Examining fifty of the world's great masterpieces, including works by da Vinci, Caravaggio and Brueghel, it provides the key to unlocking those symbols.

Author : Jill Dunkerton
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300050828
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Giotto to Dürer written by Jill Dunkerton and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book provides a survey of European painting between 1260 and 1510, in both northern and southern Europe, based largely on the National Gallery collection ... some 70 of the finest and best known paintings in the Gallery are examined in detail"--Cover.