About this title: A study of Renaissance art that employs modern methods of art interpretation. Since World War II, art historians have analyzed paintings and other art objects either independent of their history or as extensions of social and political situations of the time. Kemp's approach is, instead, to interpret works of art from the Italian Renaissance by ...
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Binding: Hardbound.
Publisher: Yale University Press, New Haven, Ct
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780300071955ISBN:0300071957
Description: VG/VG-dj has minor wear and tear at top of spine. The Roman author Pliny tells the story--well known in the Renaissance--of famed Grecian painter Apelles hiding behind one of his pictures to overhear comments of viewers. Martin Kemp provides an introductory text on Italian Renaissance art that brings the period alive through a wealth of visual and written evidence and extensive quotations from original sources. Blue cloth with light blue color illustrated dustjacket. x, 314 pp., 20 color, 101 ... read more
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