Renaissance art
By: Geraldine A. Johnson
Edition: Illustrated ed.
Series: A brief insight; Brief insight
Publisher: Sterling Pub.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9781402775406
Copyright date: 2005
Subjects: Renaissance Art
Description: Botticelli, Holbein, Lenardo, Durer, Michaelangelo, who were these artists, why did they produce such memorable works, and how did the original beholders of Renaissance art view them? using vivid examples, this book focusses on canonical and lesser-known artists and works from the Northern and Southern Renaissance.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-170) and index.
Table of contents: title: Whose Renaissance? whose art?; title: The art of the altarpiece; title: Story-telling in Renaissance art; title: The challenge of nature and the antique; title: Portraiture and the rise of "Renaissance man"; title: Did women have a Renaissance?; title: Objects and images for the domestic sphere; title: The story of a square : art and ubranism in Florence; title: Michelangelo : the birth of the artist and of art history.