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Art of Renaissance Florence - A City and Its Legacy by Scott Nethersole
Category: Art and Design | Series: Renaissance Art Ser.
In this vivid account Scott Nethersole examines the remarkable period of cultural, artistic and intellectual blossoming in Florence from ca. 1400 to 1520 - the period traditionally known as the Early and High Renaissance. He looks at the city and its art with fresh eyes, presenting the well-known within ...Show more
Art of Renaissance Rome: Artists and Patrons in the Eternal City by John Marciari
Category: Art and Design | Series: Renaissance Art Ser.
John Marciari tells the story of the monuments, artists, and patrons of Renaissance Rome in this compelling book. In no other city is the ancient world so palpably present, and nowhere else is the mission of the church so evident. At the same time as the humanists sought to preserve and recreate the anc ...Show more
Art of the Northern Renaissance: "Courts, Commerce and Devotion" by Porras Stephanie
Category: Art and Design | Series: Renaissance Art Ser.
In this lucid account, Stephanie Porras charts the fascinating story of art in northern Europe during the Renaissance period (ca. 1400-1570). She explains how artists and patrons from the regions north of the Alps - the Low Countries, France, England, Germany - responded to an era of rapid political, so ...Show more
Italian Renaissance Courts by Alison Cole
Category: Art and Design | Series: Renaissance Art
This fascinating study of Renaissance courtly art and culture in fifteenth and early sixteenth-century Italy encompasses the most recent scholarship on the courts, court art and noble values. Alison Cole not only considers the role of artists, but explores the distinctive uses to which art was put at th ...Show more
Locating Renaissance Art by Carol M. Richardson
Category: Art Books | Series: Renaissance Art Reconsidered Ser.
Renaissance art history is traditionally identified with Italian centers of production, and Florence in particular. Instead, this book explores the dynamic interchange between European artistic centers and artists and the trade in works of art. It also considers the impact of differing locations on art ...Show more
Renaissance Art in Venice: From Tradition to Individualism by Tom Nichols
Category: Art and Design | Series: Renaissance Art
Art and architecture have always been central to Venice but in the Renaissance period, between c.1440 and 1600, they reached a kind of apotheosis when many of the city's new buildings, sculpture and paintings took on distinctive and original qualities. The spread of Renaissance values provided leading a ...Show more
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