Viewing Renaissance Art
- ISBN-10
- 0300123434
- ISBN-13
- 9780300123432
- Category
- Art
- Pages
- 344
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007-01-01
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Authors
- The Open University, Open University Staff
Description
This book focuses on the values, priorities, and motives of patrons and the purposes and functions of art works produced north and south of the Alps and in post-Byzantine Crete. It begins by considering the social range and character of Renaissance patronage and ends with a study of Hans Holbein the Younger and the reform of religious images in Basle and England. Viewing Renaissance Art considers a wide range of audiences and patrons from the rulers of France to the poorest confraternities in Florence. The overriding premise is that art was not a neutral matter of stylistic taste but an aspect of material production in which values were invested--whether religious, cultural, social, or political.
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