How to read Italian Renaissance painting
Publisher: Abrams
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York, United States
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 399
ISBN-13: 9780810989405
Table of contents: title: INDEX OF THEMES, TOPICS and TECHNIQUES: Academy -- Allegory -- Allusion -- Altarpiece -- Ambiguity -- Anatomy -- Animals -- Antiquarian -- Apotheosis -- Apprehension -- Archaeology -- Architecture -- Astronomy -- Atmosphere -- Awe -- Balance -- Battle -- Bizarrerie -- Caricature -- Cassone -- Ceiling -- Cenacolo -- Central axis -- Central plan -- Ceremony -- Chiaroscuro -- Classicism -- Collecting -- Colorito -- Colour -- Composition -- Contrapposto -- Council of Trent -- Counter-reformation -- Court -- Crisis -- Culture -- Cupid -- Delicacy -- Detail -- Diagonal -- Dispersal of artists -- Divine Proportions -- Dome -- Donors -- Double portrait -- Drama -- Dynamism -- Dynasty -- The East -- Ekphrasis -- Eloquence -- Equestrian portrait -- Eroticism -- Expressionism -- Family -- Fashion -- Female nude -- Flemish artists -- Foreshortening -- Fresco -- Friendship -- Gallery -- Genre painting -- Gentleman -- Geometry -- Gesture -- Gold ground -- The golden section -- Grace -- Half-length figure -- Harmony -- Hierarchy of the arts -- Historicized portrait -- Humanism -- Iconographic programme -- Idea -- Ideal city -- Idyll -- Illusion -- Illustrious men -- Intellectuals -- International Gothic -- Internationalism -- Kiss -- Landscape -- Leonardesque -- Library -- Line -- Literature -- Luxury -- Maestà -- Male nude -- Mankind -- Mannerism -- Medals -- Melancholy -- Michelangelesque -- Mirror -- Monochrome -- Movement -- Movements of the soul -- Myth -- Narrative -- Naturalism -- Nature -- Neo-Platonism -- Nepotism -- Night scene -- Non finito -- Northern Europe -- Obsession -- Ovid’s Metamorphoses -- Palladianism -- Papacy -- Pastorale -- Patron -- Perfection -- Perspective -- Politics -- Polyptych -- Popularism -- Portico -- Portrait -- Power -- Preparatory cartoon -- Private devotion -- Procession -- Profile -- Provincial -- Psychological indeterminacy -- Realism -- Reclining nude -- Relationship among figures -- Replicas -- Rhetoric -- Rhythm -- Rivalry -- Romanists -- Sacra conversazione -- Sacra rappresentazione -- Scream -- Self-portrait -- Semicircle -- Sensuality -- Sfumato -- Shadow -- Sinuosity -- Smile -- Sobriety -- Spatial depth -- Square panel -- Stage scenery -- Still life -- Stories -- Studiolo -- Students of Squarcione -- Style -- Sunset -- Symbolism -- Symmetry -- Telero -- Theatre -- The three ages of man -- Tondo -- Torsion -- Treatises -- Triumph of death -- Triptych -- Trompe I’oeiI -- Ugliness -- Ut pictura poesis -- Vanishing point -- Veduta -- Venus -- Vitruvius -- Volume -- Women artists -- Workshop.