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"Now in its second edition, [this book] presents an updated and even more accessible history. The book has been split into two volumes: the first covering the period 1300 to 1510; the second, 1490 to 1600. The volumes retain the same ... decade-by-decade structure as the first e…
"Now in its second edition, [this book] presents an updated and even more accessible history. The book has been split into two volumes: the first covering the period 1300 to 1510; the second, 1490 to 1600. The volumes retain the same ... decade-by-decade structure as the first e…
"Art historian Laurie Schneider Adams opens the text with the late Byzantine work of Cimabue and concludes with the transition to Mannerism. The author presents the most important and innovative artists and their principal works, with a clear emphasis on selectivity and understa…
"Between Renaissance and Baroque is a stunning achievement - the first book to be written about the original painting commissions of the Jesuits in Rome. Offering a uniquely comprehensive and comparative analysis of the paintings and stuccoes which adorned all of the Jesuit foun…
"Between Renaisance and Baroque is a stunning achievement - the first book to be written about the original painting commissions of the Jesuits in Rome. Offering a uniquely comprehensive and comparative analysis of the paintings and stuccoes which adorned all of the Jesuit found…
"To whom should we ascribe the great flowering of the arts in Renaissance Italy? Artists like Botticelli and Michelangelo? Or wealthy, discerning patrons like Cosimo de' Medici? In recent years, scholars have attributed great importance to the role played by patrons, arguing tha…
Between the "Black Death" in the mid-14th century and the French invasions at the end of the mid-15th century artists such as Masaccio, Donatello, Fra Angelico, and Leonardo, working in the kingdoms, princedoms, and republics of the Italian peninsula, created some of the most in…