Painting in Renaissance Florence, 1500-1550
Painting in Renaissance Florence, 1500-1550

Author: David Franklin

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2001-01-01

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 0300083998

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Franklin's unprecedented examination of Vasari's work as a painter in relation to his vastly better-known writings fully illuminates these dual strands in Florentine art and offers us a clearer understanding of sixteenth-century painting in Florence than ever before." "The volume focuses on twelve painters: Perugino, Leonardo de Vinci, Piero di Cosimo, Michelangelo, Fra Bartolomeo, Ridolfo Ghirlandaio, Andrea del Sarto, Franciabigio, Rosso Fiorentino, Jacopo da Pontormo, Francesco Salviati and Giorgio Vasari."--BOOK JACKET.

The Origins of Florentine Painting, 1100-1270
The Origins of Florentine Painting, 1100-1270

Author: Miklós Boskovits

Publisher: Giunti Editore

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 842

ISBN-13:

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Attempts to provide a comprehensive study of the paintings produced in Florence between circa 1100 and 1270 - the scope of the book ranges from early examples of medieval art to the generation of painters preceding Cimabue. All known works of the period are included accompanied by descriptions.

Painting and Illumination in Early Renaissance Florence, 1300-1450
Painting and Illumination in Early Renaissance Florence, 1300-1450

Author: Laurence B. Kanter

Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 406

ISBN-13: 0870997254

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. By way of introduction to the objects themselves are three essays. The first, by Laurence B. Kanter, presents an overview of Florentine illumination between 1300 and 1450 and thumbnail sketches of the artists featured in this volume. The second essay, by Barbara Drake Boehm, focuses on the types of books illuminators helped to create. As most of them were liturgical, her contribution limns for the modern reader the medieval religious ceremonies in which the manuscripts were utilized. Carl Brandon Strehlke here publishes important new material about Fra Angelico's early years and patrons - the result of the author's recent archival research in Florence.

Painting in Florence and Siena After the Black Death
Painting in Florence and Siena After the Black Death

Author: Millard Meiss

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 1978

Total Pages: 295

ISBN-13: 0691003122

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The first extended study of the painting of Florence and Siena in the later 14th century, this book presents a rich interweaving of considerations of connoisseurship, style, iconography, cultural and social background, and historical events.

Painting in Florence and Siena After the Black Death
Painting in Florence and Siena After the Black Death

Author: Millard Meiss

Publisher:

Published: 1973

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13:

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The first extended study of the painting of Florence and Siena in the later 14th century, this book presents a rich interweaving of considerations of connoisseurship, style, iconography, cultural and social background, and historical events. -- From product description.