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Renaissance art reconsidered : an anthology of primary sources / edited by Carol M. Richardson, Kim W. Woods and Michael W. Franklin.

Contributor(s): Publication details: Milton Keynes : Blackwell, 2007.Description: xvi, 449 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9781405146401
  • 9781405146418
  • 1405146419
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Contents:
Drawing and workshop practice -- Linear perspective -- Sculpture -- Architecture -- Panel painting -- Prints and printmaking -- Treatises, histories, artists and education -- Florence and Rome -- Netherlandish networks -- Tapestries -- Siena -- The post-Byzantine Renaissance -- Venice -- Architectural treatises -- Art, class and wealth -- Views on art in Florence -- Illuminated manuscripts -- Art and monarchy in France -- The market in icons -- Art and death -- The reform of images.
Summary: Renaissance Art Reconsidered: An Anthology of Primary Sources offers an intimate glimpse into the reality of making art, and the geographical, material and theoretical factors that shaped artistic production between 1400 and 1530. This book widens the traditional Italian focus of Renaissance art history, considering texts from northern Europe and the Mediterranean alongside texts relating to Italian art. Unprecedented in its range, this collection brings together a wide variety of contracts, extracts from treatises, letters, diaries, wills and other important documents, many of which are translated into English for the first time, to provide crucial insight into the art and the context in which it was produced.
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Book Book CGLAS Library Yellow 709.024 RIC (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 07669

Published in association with The Open University.

Drawing and workshop practice -- Linear perspective -- Sculpture -- Architecture -- Panel painting -- Prints and printmaking -- Treatises, histories, artists and education -- Florence and Rome -- Netherlandish networks -- Tapestries -- Siena -- The post-Byzantine Renaissance -- Venice -- Architectural treatises -- Art, class and wealth -- Views on art in Florence -- Illuminated manuscripts -- Art and monarchy in France -- The market in icons -- Art and death -- The reform of images.

Renaissance Art Reconsidered: An Anthology of Primary Sources offers an intimate glimpse into the reality of making art, and the geographical, material and theoretical factors that shaped artistic production between 1400 and 1530. This book widens the traditional Italian focus of Renaissance art history, considering texts from northern Europe and the Mediterranean alongside texts relating to Italian art. Unprecedented in its range, this collection brings together a wide variety of contracts, extracts from treatises, letters, diaries, wills and other important documents, many of which are translated into English for the first time, to provide crucial insight into the art and the context in which it was produced.