The Renaissance portrait
Subtitle: from Donatello to Bellini
By: edited by Keith Christiansen and Stefan Weppelmann ; essays by Patricia Rubin ... [et al.].
Contributors: Bode-Museum; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art; Distributed by Yale University Press; Metropolitan Museum of Art;
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York; New Haven [Conn.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9781588394255; 9781588394262; 9780300175912
Subjects: Italian Art; Exhibitions; Renaissance Portraits
Other titles: From Donatello to Bellini
Description: "'The Renaissance Portrait,' which accompanies a landmark exhibition at the Bode-Museum, Berlin, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, provides new research and insight into the early history of portraiture in Italy, examining in detail how its major art centers--Florence, the priestly courts, and Venice--saw the rapid development of portraiture as closely linked to Renaissance society and politics, ideas of the individual, and concepts of beauty. Essays by leading scholars provide a thorough introduction to Renaissance portraiture, while individual catalogue entries illustrate and extensively discuss more than 160 magnificent examples of painting, drawing, manuscript illumination, sculpture, and medallic portraiture by such artists as Donatello, Filippo Lippi, Botticelli, Verrocchio, Ghirlandaio, Pisanello, Mantegna, Antonello da Messina, and Giovanni Bellini."--Inside cover.
Notes: Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Bode-Museum, Berlin, Aug. 25-Nov. 20, 2011, and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Dec. 21, 2011-Mar. 18, 2012.

Includes bibliographical references and index.