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Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy: A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Style

Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy: A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Style more books like this

by Professor Michael Baxandall

An introduction to Italian painting in the 15th century, and the social history behind it. The book covers the structure of the picture trade and its economic basis through contracts, letters and accounts. The author also illustrates how art history can be used to give insights into social history, by showing how the visual skills and activities ...

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Michelangelo

Michelangelo more books like this

by Mike Venezia (Illustrator)

This book provides an entertaining and humor ous introduction to the famous artist, Michelangelo. It incl udes excellent colour reproductions of the artist''s work. '

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Caravaggio - 1571/1610

Caravaggio - 1571/1610 more books like this

by Gilles Lambert

Caravaggio - A genius beyond his time Notorious bad boy of Italian Baroque painting, Caravaggio (1571-1610) is finally getting the recognition he deserves. Though his name may be familiar to all of us, his work has been habitually detested and forced into obscurity. Not only was his theatrical realism unfashionable in his time, but his ...

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Leonardo Da Vinci: The Complete Paintings

Leonardo Da Vinci: The Complete Paintings more books like this

by Pietro C Marani

In this compact paperback, Pietro C. Marani re-examines the complete oeuvre of Leonardo, drawing on archival research that has uncovered important documents relating to the artist's work and career. All of Leonardo's paintings are featured here, together with related drawings and many enlarged details that reveal the painter's extraordinary sense ...

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Painting in Italy, 1500-1600: Third Edition

Painting in Italy, 1500-1600: Third Edition more books like this

by S J Freedberg

'Art', declared Vasari in Lives of the Artists, has been reborn and reached perfection in our time'. Indeed the roster of great names in painting of the Cinquecento, which only begins with those of Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael, appears to justify this grand claim. Professor Freedberg here discusses the individual painters and analyses the ...

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Italian Renaissance Painting

Italian Renaissance Painting more books like this

by James H Beck

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Merchants, Princes and Painters: Silk Fabrics in Italian and Northern Paintings, 1300-1550

Merchants, Princes and Painters: Silk Fabrics in Italian and Northern Paintings, 1300-1550 more books like this

by Ms. Lisa Monnas

Covering a period that witnessed the flowering of the Renaissance and the major expansion of the Italian silk industry, this volume examines the Italian silk fabrics depicted in paintings from Italy, England and the Netherlands over the course of 250 years. Through a close study of the workshop practice and techniques of the artists who ...

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Italian Painters of the Renaissance more books like this

by Bernard Berenson

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Raphael

Raphael more books like this

by Mike Venezia

Clever illustrations and story lines, together with full-color reproductions of actual paintings, give children a light yet realistic overview of each artist's life and style in these fun and educational books.

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Michelangelo, the painter. more books like this

by Valerio Mariani

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Carpaccio

Carpaccio more books like this

by Mr. Peter Humfrey

An illuminating study of the greatest early Renaissance narrative painter of the Venetian school

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Painting in Renaissance Venice

Painting in Renaissance Venice more books like this

by Peter Humfrey

This text presents a comprehensive account of painting in Venice, from Bellini and Titian to Tintoretto, from the middle of the 15th century to the end of the 16th century. The art is set against the background of religious, social and political conditions in Renaissance Italy.

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Painting in Eighteenth-Century Venice: Third Edition more books like this

by Michael Levey

From Canaletto to Tiepolo, 18th-century Venetian painters created brilliant works of art that are now considered to be the last flowering of the long Venetian tradition of painting. This book provides an introduction to 18th-century Venetian painting, discussing the various types of painting - portraiture, genre, landscape, history paintings, and ...

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The Enigma of Piero: Piero Della Francesca more books like this

by Professor Carlo Ginzburg, Sir Martin Ryle (Translator), Kate Soper (Translator)

Sifting the available evidence, Carlo Ginzburg builds up a vivid portrait of Piero della Francesca's patrons and convincingly explains the contemporary intrigues resonant in his paintings. This new edition includes additional material by Ginzburg dealing with the work of Roberto Longhi, the dating of the Arezzo Cycle and the rediscovery of della ...

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Bellini and the East more books like this

by Caroline Campbell, Dr. Alan Chong, Professor Deborah Howard (Contributions by)

An investigation into the overlapping cultures of East and West in Renaissance Venice through the work of the supremely talented Bellini family

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Italian Paintings of the Fifteenth Century more books like this

by Miklos Boskovits, David Alan Brown, Robert Echols

The National Gallery of Art collection of Italian fifteenth-century paintings, the finest in any American museum, has not been published in its entirety since the 1979 Catalogue of Italian Paintings by Fern Rusk Shapley. Among the altarpieces, devotional works, portraits, and allegorical scenes are many world-famous masterpieces. In addition to ...

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A concise history of Venetian painting. more books like this

by John Steer

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Artistic Theory in Italy more books like this

by Anthony Blunt

This book seeks to broaden the comprehension of the student of Italian Renaissance painting by concentrating not on the works of art themselves, but on the various artistic theories which influenced them or were expressed by them. Taking Alberti's treatises as his starting-point, Anthony Blunt traces the development of artistic theory from ...

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Pontormo\Rosso Fiorentino more books like this

by Library of Great Masters, Elisabetta M Letta, Anthony Brierly (Translator)

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What Makes a Leonardo a Leonardo?: 9 more books like this

by Richard Muhlberger, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Metropolitan Meseum of Art

The name on the painting isn't the artist's only signature. Recognizing an artist's work may seem a mystery at first, but it can be as easy as spotting a friend's handwriting. Containing full-color photos of 12 masterpieces by Leonardo da Vinci, this book gives clues to identifying his paintings through color, line, shape, composition, and more.

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What Makes a Raphael a Raphael? more books like this

by Richard Muhlberger

What makes a Rembrandt a Rembrandt? Or a van Gogh a van Gogh? This series explains what makes one artist's work different from any other's. Recognizing and appreciating the work of a particular artist can be as easy as spotting a friend's handwriting. This title covers the life and work of Raphael. The clues to identifying an individual artist's ...

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The Enigma of Piero: Piero Della Francesca: The Baptism, the Arezzo Cycle, the Flagellation more books like this

by Professor Carlo Ginzburg

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Light and Color in the Italian Renaissance Theory of Art Light and Color in the Italian Renaissance Theory of Art more books like this

by Moshe Barasch

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Paintings in the Vatican more books like this

by Carlo Pietrangeli

This illustrated volume brings together a collection of the paintings found in the Vatican City, one of the world's great artistic repositories. World-famous masterpieces by artists such as Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael and Caravaggio are shown alongside works from the private rooms of the Papal apartments. Presented in chronological ...

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Venetian Painting more books like this

by John Steer

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