Renaissance art in Venice
Subtitle: from tradition to individualism
By: Tom Nichols
Publisher: Laurence King Publishing
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9781780678511
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Renaissance Art
Description: Art and architecture have always been central to Venice but in the Renaissance period, between c.1440 and 1600, they reached a kind of apotheosis when many of the city's new buildings, sculpture and paintings took on distinctive and original qualities. The spread of Renaissance values provided leading artists such as Gentile and Giovanni Bellini, Giorgione, Palladio, Titian and Tintoretto with a license for artistic invention. By adopting a chronological approach, with each chapter covering a successive twenty-five year period, and focusing attention on the artists, Tom Nichols presents a vivid, richly illustrated and easily navigable study of Venetian Renaissance art.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-219) and index.
Table of contents: title: The 'Most Serene Republic': Venice at the Outset of the Renaissance; title: Innovation as Tradition: 1440-75; title: A Perfected Image of Venice: 1476-1500; title: Individualism, Internationalism, Secularization: 1501-25; title: Romanism Rank, and Rivalry: 1526-50; title: The Victory of Art: 1551-75; title: Adversity, Creativity, Retrospectivity: 1576-1600.