Renaissance art reconsidered

by Lymberopoulou, Angeliki Richardson, Carol M. Woods, Kim

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Full title :Renaissance art reconsidered / [edited by Kim W. Woods, Carol M. Richardson and Angeliki Lymberopoulou].

Summary

V.1. This book explores key themes in the making of Renaissance painting, sculpture, architecture, and prints: the use of specific techniques and materials, theory and practice, change and continuity in artistic procedures, conventions and values. It also reconsiders the importance of mathematical perspective, the assimilation of the antique revival, and the illusion of life. Embracing the full significance of Renaissance art requires understanding how it was made. As manifestations of technical expertise and tradition as much as innovation, artworks of this period reveal highly complex creative processes--allowing us an inside view on the vexed issue of the notion of a renaissance.

V. 2. Renaissance art history is traditionally identified with Italian centers of production, and Florence in particular. Instead, this book explores the dynamic interchange between European artistic centers and artists and the trade in works of art. It also considers the impact of differing locations on art and artists and some of the economic, political, and cultural factors crucial to the emergence of an artistic center. During c.1420-1520, no city or court could succeed in isolation and so artists operated within a network of interests and local and international identities. The case studies presented in this book portray the Renaissance as an exciting international phenomenon, with cities and courts inextricably bound together in a web of economic and political interests.

V. 3. This book focuses on the values, priorities, and motives of patrons and the purposes and functions of art works produced north and south of the Alps and in post-Byzantine Crete. It begins by considering the social range and character of Renaissance patronage and ends with a study of Hans Holbein the Younger and the reform of religious images in Basle and England. Viewing Renaissance Art considers a wide range of audiences and patrons from the rulers of France to the poorest confraternities in Florence. The overriding premise is that art was not a neutral matter of stylistic taste but an aspect of material production in which values were invested--whether religious, cultural, social, or political.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2007.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):in association with the Open University, Yale University Press
Place of Publication:New Haven [Conn.]
Language:eng
Publication Date:2007.

The Physical Object

Description:3 volumes : : color illustrations, maps ; : 29 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:030012189X, 9780300121896, 0300121881, 9780300121889, 0300123434, 9780300123432
oclc:ocn144685130
LC Classification:N6370
Dewey Decimal:709.024

v. 1. Making Renaissance art. Drawing and workshop practices / Catherine King -- Constructing space in Renaissance painting / Carol M. Richardson -- The illusion of life in fifteenth-century sculpture / Kim W. Woods -- Architecture : theory and practice / Tim Benton -- Making Renaissance altarpieces / Diana Norman -- The printed picture in the Renaissance / Charles Harrison -- Making histories, publishing theories / Catherine King.

v. 2. Locating Renaissance art. The allure of Rome / Carol M. Richardson -- Netherlandish networks / Kim W. Woods --Tapestries as a transnational artistic commodity / Elizabeth Cleland --Siena and its Renaissance / Diana Norman -- The painter Angelos and post-Byzantine art / Angeliki Lymberopoulou -- Art in fifteenth-century Venice : 'an aesthetic of diversity' / Paul Wood -- Bramante and the sources of the Roman high Renaissance / Tim Benton.

v. 3. Viewing Renaissance art. Art, class and wealth / Rembrandt Duits -- Florentine art and the public good / Jill Burke -- Renaissance bibliomania / Alixe Bovey -- Monarchy and prestige in France / Thomas Tolley -- Audiences and markets for Cretan icons / Angeliki Lymberopoulou -- Art and death / Carol M. Rich…

Subjects

Art -- Technique Art and society Art and society -- Europe Art de la Renaissance Art de la Renaissance -- Sources Art et société -- Europe Art patronage Art patronage -- History. -- Europe Art, Renaissance Art, Renaissance -- Sources Commerce international -- Histoire Europe History international trade International trade -- History Kunst Mécénat -- Histoire. -- Europe Renaissance Sources