Renaissance Artists Who Inspired the World

Renaissance Artists Who Inspired the World

Author: Gregory Blanch

Publisher: Ballard & Tighe Pub

Published: 2003-07-01

Total Pages: 79

ISBN-13: 9781555015930

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Celebrates the spirit of the Renaissance and the work of important artists from Italy-Sandro Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Sofonisba Anguissola.


Historical Dictionary of Renaissance Art

Historical Dictionary of Renaissance Art

Author: Lilian H. Zirpolo

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2016-08-19

Total Pages: 633

ISBN-13: 1442264675

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The art of the Renaissance is usually the most familiar to non-specialists, and for good reason. This was the era that produced some of the icons of civilization, including Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa and Last Supper and Michelangelo’s Sistine Ceiling, Pietà, and David. Marked as one of the greatest moments in history, the outburst of creativity of the era resulted in the most influential artistic revolution ever to have taken place. The period produced a substantial number of notable masters, among them Donatello, Filippo Brunelleschi, Masaccio, Sandro Botticelli, Raphael, Titian, and Tintoretto. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Renaissance Art contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 700 cross-referenced entries on artists from Italy, Flanders, the Netherlands, Germany, Spain, and Portugal, historical figures and events that impacted the production of Renaissance art. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the Renaissance art.


Drawing in Early Renaissance Italy

Drawing in Early Renaissance Italy

Author: Francis Ames-Lewis

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2000-01-01

Total Pages: 14

ISBN-13: 9780300079814

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Through the works of the major fifteenth-century draughtsmen - Pisanello, Jacopo Bellini, Pollaiuolo, Ghirlandaio, Carpaccio and Leonardo da Vinci - Francis Ames-Lewis then explores new types of drawing evolved during the century: the free sketch contrasting with the frozen control of the model-book, the exploratory study of the nude, the preparatory compositional sketch and the cartoon.


Artists of the Renaissance

Artists of the Renaissance

Author: Irene Earls

Publisher: Greenwood

Published: 2004-04-30

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13:

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Earls provides biographical chapters for each of the 10 most famous artists from the European Renaissance.


Art in Renaissance Italy, 1350-1500

Art in Renaissance Italy, 1350-1500

Author: Evelyn S. Welch

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9780192842794

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"Focuses primarliy on the social and historical context in which art was made and used"--Bibliographic essay (p. 326).


The Traveling Artist in the Italian Renaissance

The Traveling Artist in the Italian Renaissance

Author: David Young Kim

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2014-12-23

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 0300198671

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This important and innovative book examines artists' mobility as a critical aspect of Italian Renaissance art. It is well known that many eminent artists such as Cimabue, Giotto, Donatello, Lotto, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Titian traveled. This book is the first to consider the sixteenth-century literary descriptions of their journeys in relation to the larger Renaissance discourse concerning mobility, geography, the act of creation, and selfhood. David Young Kim carefully explores relevant themes in Giorgio Vasari's monumental Lives of the Artists, in particular how style was understood to register an artist's encounter with place. Through new readings of critical ideas, long-standing regional prejudices, and entire biographies, The Traveling Artist in the Italian Renaissance provides a groundbreaking case for the significance of mobility in the interpretation of art and the wider discipline of art history.


Renaissance Artists & Antique Sculpture

Renaissance Artists & Antique Sculpture

Author: Phyllis Pray Bober

Publisher: Harvey Miller Pub

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 581

ISBN-13: 9781905375608

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This handbook documents the antique works of art known to Renaissance artists up to 1527. More than 500 illustrations show Greek and Roman statues, mythological, and historical reliefs together with Renaissance drawings, engravings, bronzes, and paintings to demonstrate where these classical monuments were discovered.


Renaissance Art

Renaissance Art

Author: Victoria Charles

Publisher: Parkstone International

Published: 2023-12-28

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 1783103809

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The Renaissance began at the end of the 14th century in Italy and had extended across the whole of Europe by the second half of the 16th century. The rediscovery of the splendour of ancient Greece and Rome marked the beginning of the rebirth of the arts following the break-down of the dogmatic certitude of the Middle Ages. A number of artists began to innovate in the domains of painting, sculpture, and architecture. Depicting the ideal and the actual, the sacred and the profane, the period provided a frame of reference which influenced European art over the next four centuries. Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Botticelli, Fra Angelico, Giorgione, Mantegna, Raphael, Dürer and Bruegel are among the artists who made considerable contributions to the art of the Renaissance.


Revaluing Renaissance Art

Revaluing Renaissance Art

Author: Gabriele Neher

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-11-22

Total Pages: 185

ISBN-13: 1351739727

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This title was first published in 2000: Michelangelo gave his painting of "Leda and the Swan" to an apprentice rather than hand it over to the emissary of the Duke of Ferrar, who had commissioned it. He was apparently disgusted by the failure of the emissary - who was probably more used to buying pigs than discussing art - to accord the picture and the artist the value they deserved. Any discussion of works of art and material culture implicitly assigns them a set of values. Whether these values be monetary, cultural or religious, they tend to constrict the ways in which such works can be discussed. The variety of potential forms of valuation becomes particularly apparent during the Italian Renaissance, when relations between the visual arts and humanistic studies were undergoing rapid changes against an equally fluid social, economic and political background. In this volume, 13 scholars explicitly examine some of the complex ways in which a variety of values might be associated with Italian Renaissance material culture. Papers range from a consideration of the basic values of the materials employed by artists, to the manifestation of cultural values in attitudes to dress and domestic devotion. By illuminating some of the ways in which values were constructed, they provide a broader context within which to evaluate Renaissance material culture.