Italian frescoes, High Renaissance and Mannerism, 1510-1600
By: Julian Kliemann, Michael Rohlmann.
Contributors: Rohlmann, Michael.
Publisher: Abbeville Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 496
Subjects: Mural painting and decoration, Italian -- 16th century; Mural painting and decoration, Renaissance -- Italy; Mannerism (Art) -- Italy
Description: "The frescoes known today are so varied in their imaginative power, function, and themes, and so masterfully executed, that this body of work has long been recognized as a culminating moment in the history of Western art." "Italian Frescoes: High Renaissance and Mannerism, 1510-1600 - illustrated with 460 reproduced full-color images and 60 black-and-white illustrations and plans - presents the full spectrum of this epochal achievement. Authors Julian Kliemann and Michael Rohlmann pay equal attention to religious frescoes, which in this period extended and enriched a venerable tradition, and secular imagery. During the cinquecento in Italy hardly a single opulent residence, villa, or palace belonging to a cardinal or aristocrat was not decorated in some fashion with mural painting, which developed in an unprecedented variety of forms."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.