Italian Renaissance art : understanding its meaning / Christiane L. Joost-Gaugier.
"Richly illustrated, and featuring detailed descriptions of works by pivotal figures in the Italian Renaissance, this enlightening volume traces the development of art and architecture throughout the Italian peninsula in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. A smart, elegant, and jargon-free analys...
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| Language: | English |
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Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Malden, MA :
Wiley-Blackwell,
[2013], ©2013.
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| Physical Description: | xii, 271 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Frontispiece: Map Showing Places Mentioned Preface Introduction: The Italian Renaissance - An Idea Rather than a Period Chapter 1: What a Difference a Hundred Years Makes Chapter 2: How it All Started - Florence and Umbria Chapter 3: What Happened Next in Florence Chapter 4: Searching for the Renaissance in Siena and Southward to Sicily Chapter 5: Searching the Renaissance from Northern Italy Back to Umbria Chapter 6: The Triumph of the Intellectual Avant-Garde - The High Renaissance Chapter 7: Some Other Artists of the High Renaissance Chapter 8: The Swan Song of Renaissance Art Chapter 9: The Break and the New Avant-Garde - Early Mannerism Chapter 10: What Was the Italian Renaissance? Conclusions in the Bigger Picture.