The Renaissance nude / edited by Thomas Kren with Jill Burke and Stephen J. Campbell ; assisted by Andrea Herrera and Thomas DePasquale.

By:

Kren, Thomas, 1950- [editor]

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Publication details: Los Angeles : J. Paul Getty Museum, 2018.Description: xiii, 417 pages : color illustrations ; 32 cmISBN:

9781606065846
160606584X
9781912520121

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Contents:

Introduction: the Renaissance nude, 1400-1530 / Thomas Kren, Jill Burke, and Stephen J. Campbell

Nudity and Christian art The nude and Christian art / Thomas Kren

The expansion of secular themes From Venus to witches: the female nude in Northern Europe / Diane Wolfthal

Painting Venus in the poetic tradition of the Early Renaissance / C. Jean Campbell

Naked truth: humanism, poetry, and the nude in Renaissance art, 1400-1530 / Stephen J. Campbell

Artistic theory and practice The body in artistic theory and practice / Jill Burke

The Renaissance nude and the study of the antique / Davide Gasparotto

The nude on the margins Beyond the ideal nude / Stephen J. Campbell

Personalizing the nude "Here's looking at you" : ambiguities of personalizing the nude / Ulrich Pfisterer

Epilogue 1: the nude in Northern Europe in 1530 / Thomas Kren

Epilogue 2: Michelangelo, the Sistine Ceiling, and the reception of the nude in Italy after 1530 / Thomas DePasquale

Summary: An examination of the development of the nude as an artistic motif in the visual culture of Renaissance Europe, 1400-1530.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Barcode
Book	CGLAS Library	Gold	704.9421 KRE (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	10043

Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, Los Angeles, 30 October 2018 - 27 January 2019; Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2 March - 2 June 2019.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 382-407) and index.