Shows the background of paintings by Sienese artists
This generously illustrated book provides a survey of Sienese painting from 1260 to 1555, an era of extraordinary artistic creativity in the Tuscan city.
... hospital paintings by , 148 ; Saint Peter cycle by , 103 , 113n.73 foresteria ( guest chamber ) , paintings for , 125-26 ... 162 genre ( Gattung ) : in Burckhardt's account of Italian Renaissance painting , 9 ; form and function in ...
The eminent art historian Andr? Chastel offers a fresh new introducion to the painting of the Italian Renaissance. All of the great masters of the period are treated here--Giotto, Duccio,...
Humfrey analyses these painters' works in terms of their pictorial style, technique, subject matter, patronage and function.
This book gives the necessary background for the study and appreciation of Italian painting and sculpture from about 1250 to 1550.
Renaissance Painting
A Handbook of Italian Renaissance Painting
Rembrandt Duits completed his PhD at the University of Utrecht , and works at the Photographic Collection of the Warburg Institute, where he also teaches Renaissance material culture.
His realistic, downtoearth mind dominated both his numerous copper engravings aswell as hisrelatively fewpaintings, among which Chess Players (around1508) or theHealing of theBlind Manof Jericho (1532) andsome portraits stand out ...
"The book is about a new development in Italian Renaissance art; its aim is to show how artists and humanists came together to effect this revolution, it is important because this is a long-ignored but crucial aspect of the Italian ...