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Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy: A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Style
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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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Italian Painters of the Renaissance
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Bernard Berenson
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Da Vinci
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Mike Venezia (Illustrator)
This series meets National Curriculum Standards for: Social Studies: Culture
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Artistic Theory in Italy
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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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Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, and the Renaissance of Venetian Painting
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David Alan Brown, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien
The first three decades of the sixteenth century represent, visually and intellectually, the most exciting phase of the Renaissance in Venice - when Giorgione and the young Titian, together with Sebastiano del Piombo and Palma Vecchio, and others, were working alongside the older master Giovanni Bellini. This beautiful book presents an innovative ...
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Tiepolo and the Pictorial Intelligence
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Professor Svetlana Alpers, Professor Michael Baxandall
Tiepolo is an example of the specifically pictorial intelligence. This book is both a study of his art and an argument for fuller recognition of the peculiarities of the painters' representational medium. Svetlana Alpers and Michael Baxandall locate distinctive modes of Tiepolo's representation of the world and human action; follow his process of ...
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Looking at pictures with Bernard Berenson
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Bernard Berenson, Hanna Kiel
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First Impressions: Leonardo Da Vinci
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Richard McLabathan, Richard B McLanathan
Here, the life of one of the greatest, most versatile figures in the history of art is told in a fresh, anecdotal style. Beginning with Leonardo's boyhood, we are guided through ducal palaces, the papal court, and from his teacher's workshop to the world's leading museums. 56 illustrations, including 32 in full color.
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Painting of the High Renaissance in Rome and Florence
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S J Freedberg
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What Makes a Raphael a Raphael?
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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 Golden Century of Venetian Painting
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Terisio Pignatti
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The Enigma of Piero: Piero Della Francesca
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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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From Flanders to Florence: The Impact of Netherlandish Painting, 1400-1500
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Paula Nuttall
This innovative book presents a fresh view of fifteenth-century Netherlandish art and the significance of its contributions to contemporary Italian art, notably in such areas as oil painting, landscape and portraiture. Focusing on Florence, a prime centre of renaissance culture, the book explores for the first time the profound impact of ...
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Mannerism and Anti-Mannerism in Italian Painting
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Walter Friedlander
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Artemisia Gentileschi: The Image of the Female Hero in Italian Baroque Art
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Mary D Garrard
Artemisia Gentileschi, widely regarded as the most important woman artist before the modern period, was a major Italian Baroque painter of the seventeenth century and the only female follower of Caravaggio. This first full-length study of her life and work shows that her powerfully original treatments of mythic-heroic female subjects depart ...
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Michelangelo Buonarroti
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Ernest Raboff
Discusses the life and art of the Renaissance sculptor, poet, and painter. Includes color and black and white reproductions of many of his works.
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Botticelli
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Mike Venezia (Illustrator)
- paperback versions of the highly successful hardback series; - an entertaining and humorous introduction to famous artists; - excellent colour reproductions of the artists work.
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Leonardo Da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci
These volumes represent each author's best and most famous writings. This finely crafted and affordable series offers the works of these world-renowned authors to a wider audience.
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Italian Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Florentine School
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Federico Zeri, Metropolitan Museum Of Art, Elizabeth Gardner
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After Raphael
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Marcia Hall
After Raphael is the first overview of sixteenth-century Italian painting to be published in over thirty years. Reevaluating the paintings of Raphael, Michelangelo, Pontormo, Bronzino and their followers in the light of recent research, Marcia Hall offers a new interpretation for the stylistic shifts that occurred after 1520. By taking into ...
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Italian Paintings, Sienese and Central Italian Schools: A Catalogue of the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Federico Zeri, Elizabeth Gardner
The Museum's Sienese and Central Italian paintings are discussed in alphabetical order by artist, with a brief biography of each.
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Raphael
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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.
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Valerio Mariani
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Sienese Painting: From Its Origins to the Fifteenth Century
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Bruce Cole
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Venetian Painting
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John Steer
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