Viewing Renaissance art

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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 F…

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

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Publication Date:2007.

Publication Statements

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

The Physical Object

Description:333 pages : : illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; : 29 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780300123432, 0300123434
oclc:ocm80180581
LC Classification:N6370
Dewey Decimal:709.02/4

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. Richardson -- Holbein and the reform of images / Kim W. Woods.