Title: Art in Renaissance Italy /
Authors: Paoletti, John T.; Radke, Gary M.
Publisher: L. King,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Art, Italian; Art, Renaissance Italy; Italy Civilization
Abstract: With a 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, paintings, and sculptures.
Contents: pt. 1. The late thirteenth and the fourteenth century. The origins of the Renaissance -- Rome: artists, popes, and cardinals -- Assisi and Padua: narrative realism -- Florence: traditions and innovations -- Siena: city of the virgin -- Naples: art for a royal kingdom -- Venice: the most serene republic -- Pisa and Florence: social upheaval -- Visconti Milan and Carrara Padua -- pt. 2. The fifteenth century. Florence: commune and guild -- Florence: the Medici and political propaganda -- Rome: re-establishing papal power -- Venice: affirming the past and present -- Courtly art: the Gothic and Classic -- Sforza Milan: ducal splendor -- pt. 3. The first half of the sixteenth century. Florence: the renewed republic -- Rome: Julius II, Leo X, and Clement VII -- Florence: mannerism and the Medici -- Mantua, Parma, and Genoa: the arts of court -- Venice: vision and monumentality -- pt. 4. The later sixteenth century. The Rome of Paul III -- Northern Italy: reform and innovation -- Florence under Cosimo -- Rome: a European capital city.