The book includes genealogies of influential families,listings of popes and doges, plans of cities, a time chart, a bibliography, a glossary, and an index.Innovative and scholarly, yet accessible and beautifully presented, this book is set to become a definitive work on the Italian Renaissance.
Art in Renaissance Italy, Third Edition, has a fresliness and breadth of approach that sets the art in its context.exploring why it was created and who commissioned the palaces, cathedrals, paintings, and sculptures. For. as the authors claim. Italian Renaissance artists were no more solitary gemuses than are most architects and commercial artists today.
This book covers not only the foremost artistic centres of Rome and Florence. Here too are Venice and the Veneto,Assisi, Siena, Milan, Pavia. Genoa, Padua. Mantua, Verona.Ferrara. Urbino. and Naples-each city revealing unique political and social structures that influenced its artistic styles.
The narrative brings to life the rich tapestry of Renaissance society from 1250 to 1600. "Contemporary Scene" boxes provide fascinating glimpses of daily life and "Contemporary Voice" boxes quote from painters and writers of the time. In this Third Edition chapters are grouped into four chronological parts, allowing for a sustained examination of individual cities in different periods. There are also sixtyfour more pages than before, including 100 extra pictures,mostly in colour; more detailed treatment of key artworks;greater coverage of complex topics such as Mannerism;further analysis of the responses to religious reform: and a discussion of art restoration versus art renovation.
A brilliant selection of familiar and unfamiliar artworks presents the visual arts as an integrated whole. Frescoes are shown in situ and close up, sculpturesare displayed in their architectural setting, and examples of other arts such as intarsia and prints are included.
The book includes genealogies of influential families,listings of popes and doges, plans of cities, a time chart, a bibliography, a glossary, and an index. Innovative and scholarly, yet accessible and beautifully presented, this book is set to become a definitive work on the Italian Renaissance.
Preface 10
Introduction: Art in Context 12
Contemporary Scene: Art and Offerings 15
Patronage 16
Artists’ Workshops 17
The Image of the Artist 17
Workshop Training 18
Contracts 21
Contemporary Voice: An Artist’s Life 21
Materials and Methods 22
The Painting Studio 23
Wall Painting 23
Contemporary Voice: Terms of Employment 24
Tempera and Oil Painting 26
Mosaic and Stained Glass 27
The Sculpture Workshop 28
Bronze Sculpture 31
Drawings 32
Architecture 33
Other Workshops 36
Print Media 36
Renovations and Restorations 37
Historiography and Methodology 42
Vasari’s ThreeAges 42
Contemporary Voice: Fashioning the Female Artist 43
Naming the Renaissance 44
The Late Thirteenth and the
Fourteenth Century 47
1 The Origins of the Renaissance 48
St. Francis and the Beginnings of Renaissance Art 48
Francis of Assisi 49
Contemporary Voice: Francis as Another Christ 50
The San Damiano Crucifix: Christus triumphans 50
Christus patiens 50
Defining St. Francis 52
St. Clare 53
Style and Meaning 53
Urban Contexts 55
Types of Cities 55
2 Rome: Artists, Popes, and Cardinals 56
Rome’s Revival under Nicholas III 57
The Sancta Sanctorum 59
Contemporary Scene: Art and Miracles 60
Nicholas IV at Santa Maria Maggiore 61
Patrons Dora the Papal Curia 62
Pope Boniface VIII and an imperial Language
of Power 64
Creating Images for an Absent Papacy 65
3 Assisi and Padua: Narrative Realism 67
Frescoes in San Francesco 69
Nave Frescoes 69
Contemporary Voice: St. Francis and the Christ Child 70
Padua: The Scrovegni Chapel 71
4 Florence: Traditions and Innovations 77
St. John the Baptist and the Baptistry 79
The Palazzo della Signoria and Urban Planning 80
Contemporary Scene: Art and Violence 82
Mendicant Churches 82
Santa Croce and Santa Maria Novella 82
Altarpieces Dedicated to the Virgin 84
Cimabue’s Altarpiece for Santa Trinitr 84
Duccio’s Altarpiece for the Confraternity
of the Laudesi 85
Giotto’s Ognissanti Madonna 86
Santa Croce Frescoes 86
The Bardi Chapel 87
The Peruzzi Chapel 88
The Baroncelli Chapel 90
Altarpieces for Santa Croce 92
The Santa Croce Refectory Frescoes 93
The Cathedral Complex 94
Andrea Pisano’s Baptistry Doors 96
5 Siena: City of the Virgin 99
The Cathedral 100
The Pulpit 101
The Facade 103
Duccio’s Maesta 104
Contemporary Voice: The Procession of the Maestri 104
Altarpieces in the Transept Chapels 107
Later Sienese Altar Painting 110
Tomb Sculpture 110
Arezzo: The Tarlati Tomb 112
The Palazzo Pubblico 112
Simone Martini’s Maesta for the Palazzo Pubblico 113
Lippo Memmi’s Maesta for San Gimignano 113
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