The magnificent frescoes in chapels and town halls across Italy together represent one of the greatest achievements of Renaissance art. Commissioned both by private patrons and by the Church, artists responded with images of matchless beauty. Leading scholars treat the works selected for this series in their artistic and historical contexts; each ...
An anthology of essays by critic-historian of Early Italian painting, Richard Offner. Its contents span 14th-century Florentine and thus compose a kind of portrait album of some of its most notable painters between the Gothic and Renaissance eras, from the Magdalen Master in the 13th century to Masaccio in the early 15th. The essays are ...
This title reconsiders a seminal art history text. Giorgio Vasari's "The Lives of the Artists" (1550, 1568) has been a key subject of study for students of the Italian Renaissance over the hundreds of years since its publication. It has maintained a powerful grip on the historical imagination and continues to influence the way scholars treat the ...
Andrew Ladis begins his book with Giorgio Vasari's famous story of "Giotto's O", in which the artist drew a perfect circle freehand, baffled Pope Benedict IX's foolish messenger, and demonstrated his artistic brilliance to those qualified to understand. The fundamental premise of Ladis' work is that the Arena Chapel, like Giotto's mythical O or ...
In this collection of nine essays, art historians in the United States consider the relationship between art and craft, between the creative idea and its realisation, in Renaissance and Baroque Italy. The essays, all previously unpublished, are devoted to the pictorial arts and are accompanied by nearly 150 illustrations. Examining works by such ...
Andrew Ladis is Franklin Professor of Art History at the University of Georgia. Over the course of the last twenty years he has written extensively on Italian art. In addition to books on Taddeo Gaddi and on the Brancacci Chapel, he has made notable contributions to the study of early Italian painting and sculpture with essays on such figures as ...
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