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Witha freshness and breadth of approach that sets the art in its context, this book explores why works were created and who commissioned the palaces, cathedrals,...
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In 15th-century Florence, Brunelleschi's buildings and Alberti's treatise first established the principles of Italian Renaissance architecture in practice...
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How one of the most beautiful portraits in all of Western art made its adventurous passage through the centuries, from Renaissance Rome to the Mall in...
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In this treatise on the purpose of painting, written in the Counter-Reformation, Comanini addresses the most hotly debated issues of the time, drawing...
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This volume focuses on art in the time of the Medici grand dukes, who were at the height of their powers from 1537 to 1631. It shows how the Medici used...
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This text seeks to overturn assumptions about the way art evolved in Renaissance Florence. It challenges the usefulness of the terms "High Renaissance"...
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"Mira Calligraphiae Monumenta" is a flamboyant demonstration of two arts - calligraphy and miniature painting - which were produced in the court of Emperor...
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An exploration of the genesis and early development of the genre of self-portraiture in Italy in the 15th and 16th centuries. The author examines a series...
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Starting from Burckhardt's "The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy", this work seeks to explore its continuing relevance to an understanding of the...
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Argues that we can only learn how and why certain kinds of spatial representation prevailed over others by carefully considering how Renaissance artists...
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The Renaissance studiolo was a space devoted in theory to private reading. The most famous studiolo of all was that of Isabella d'Este, marchioness of...
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This analysis of Michelangelo's "Last Judgement" argues that he designed his work for an elite audience with an understanding of art. It describes how...
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This is a discussion of the structure and meaning of portraiture through Italian and Dutch examples. The book looks what happens when attention is shifted...
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Serving as a record of the University of Missouri's Kress collection, this text also recognizes the cultural significance of the American collector Samuel...
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Set against a consideration of the background of the economic life of the period, the study widens the focus on commissions undertaken in Central Italy...
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