Art of Renaissance Venice Architecture, Sculpture, and Painting, 1460-1590

Name: Art of Renaissance Venice Architecture, Sculpture, and Painting, 1460-1590
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ISBN: 9780226361093

ISBN-10: 0226361098

ISBN-13: 9780226361093

Edition: 2nd 1990

Authors: Norbert Huse, Wolfgang Wolters, Edmund Jephcott

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In the first contemporary single-volume survey of the three arts of Venice--painting, sculpture, and architecture--Norbert Huse and Wolfgang Wolters offer an important counterbalance to the traditional orientation toward painting as the city's preeminent art by focusing on architecture as the essential Venetian art. They begin their study in 1460, when Venice was one of the key powers of Italy, and end with the death of Tintoretto in 1594, a period of waning international power. In the process, they define the distinctly Venetian terms by which the city and its culture should be understood. With over three hundred illustrations and an exhaustive bibliography, this volume makes an impressive…

Book details

List price: $55.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1990
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 10/30/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 390
Size: 8.27" wide x 10.55" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 3.168
Language: English



Architecture & Sculpture Wolfgang Wolters



Forma Urbis



The Beginnings



Civic Architecture


House and Palace


Mauro Codussi


Buildings of the First Half of the Sixteenth Century


Public Buildings


Jacopo Sansovinoï¿½Michele Sanmicheliï¿½Andrea Palladio


Buildings of the Second Half of the Sixteenth Century



Sacred Buildings


Churches and Monasteries (1460-1530)


Jacopo Sansovino and His Contemporaries


Andrea Palladio



Scuole



Villas for Venetians



Sculpture


The Sculptor's Workshop


Antonio Rizzo


The Lombardo Family and Their Contemporaries


Jacopo Sansovino


Alessandro Vittoria


Plates


Painting


Norbert Huse



Between 1460 and 1505


Artisans or Artists?


Altar Panels


Christ and the Virgin "in Forma Pietatis"


Histories and Legends


Faces and Landscapes



Between 1505 and 1550


Autonomy and Competition


Altarpieces and Devotional Paintings


Portraits


Mythology or Genre?


History Painting



Between 1550 and 1590


Pictures and Their Audience


Altarpieces


Portrait Painting


History in Pictures


Ceiling Paintings


Gods and Landscapes


About 1590


Notes


Bibliography


Photo Credits


Index