| Contents |
1300-1400 : The Trecento inheritance -- 1400-1410 : The cathedral and the city -- 1410-1420 : Commissioning art : standardization, customization, emulation -- 1420-1430 : Perspective and its discontents -- 1430-1440 : Pictorial techniques and the uses of drawing -- 1440-1450 : Palace and church -- 1450-1460 : Rome and other Romes -- 1460-1470 : Courtly values -- 1470-1480 : What is naturalism? -- 1480-1490 : Migration and mobility -- 1490-1500 : From the margins to the center -- 1500-1510 : Human nature -- 1510-1520 : The workshop and the "school" -- 1520-1530 : The loss of the center -- 1530-1540 : Dynasty and myth -- 1540-1550 : Literate art -- 1550-1560 : Disegno/colore -- 1560-1570 : Decorum, order, and reform -- 1570-1580 : Art, the people, and the counter-Reformation Church -- 1580-1590 : A sense of place -- 1590-1600 : The persistence of art -- Chronology of rule 1400-1600 : key centers. |
| Abstract |
"Stephen Campbell & Michael Cole offer a new and invigorating approach to Italian Renaissance art that combines a straightforward chronological structure with new insights and approaches from contemporary scholarship. Drawing on the most recent scholarship, this book is accessible to students and non-specialist readers, telling the story of art in the great centers of Rome, Florence, and Venice, while profiling a range of other cities and sites throughout Italy. While the book presents the classic canon of Renaissance painting and sculpture in full, it expands the scope of conventional surveys by offering a more through coverage of architecture, decorative and domestic art, and print media. Rather than emphasizing artists' biographies, this new account concentrates on the works, discussing means of production, the place for which images were made, concerns of patrons, and the expectation and responses of the works first viewers. Renaissance art is seen as decidedly new, a moment in the history of art whose concerns persist in the present. 790 full-color illustrations."--Publisher's website. |
