Renaissance Art: a Very Short Introduction

Name: Renaissance Art: a Very Short Introduction
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ISBN: 9780192803542

ISBN-10: 0192803549

ISBN-13: 9780192803542

Edition: 2005

Authors: Geraldine A. Johnson

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Artists like Botticelli, Holbein, Leonardo, D rer, and Michelangelo and works such as the Last Supper fresco and the monumental marble statue of David, are familiar symbols of the Renaissance. But who were these artists, why did they produce such memorable images, and how would their original beholders have viewed these objects? Was the Renaissance only about great masters and masterpieces, or were women artists and patrons also involved? And what about the "minor" pieces that Renaissance men and women would have encountered in homes, churches and civic spaces? This Very Short Introduction answers such questions by considering both famous and lesser-known artists, patrons, and works of art…

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List price: $12.99
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/28/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 4.37" wide x 6.85" long x 0.39" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English



Acknowledgements


List of illustrations



Introduction: whose Renaissance? whose art?



The art of the altarpiece



Story-telling in Renaissance art



The challenge of nature and the antique



Portraiture and the rise of 'Renaissance man'



Did women have a Renaissance?



Objects and images for the domestic sphere



The story of a square: art and urbanism in Florence



Michelangelo: the birth of the artist and of art history


References


Further reading


Glossary


Index