Author: Eve BorsookPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Francesco Sassetti and Ghirlandaio at Santa Trinità, Florence
Author: Eve BorsookPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Francesco Sassetti and Ghirlandaio Ar Santa Trinita, Florence
Author: Eve BorsookFransesco Sassetti and Ghirlandaio at Santa Trinita, Florence
Author: Eve BorsookIlluminating Luke: The infancy narrative in Italian Renaissance painting
Author: Heidi J. HornikPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9781563384059
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Interdisciplinary study of how the infancy narrative in the Gospel of Luke is Portrayed in Italian Renaissance paintings.
Domenico Ghirlandaio
Author: Jeanne K. CadoganPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300087209
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Domenico Ghirlandaio was one of the most popular artists in fifteenth-century Florence. He worked in a variety of media, including panel paintings, wall murals, mosaic, and manuscript illumination, and his workshop - to which Michelangelo was apprenticed - was highly influential. This beautiful book offers a radically new interpretation of Ghirlandaio’s life and work, viewing him primarily as an artisan active within the craft traditions, guild structure, and workshop organizations of his day. Jean K. Cadogan argues that Ghirlandaio was a pivotal figure in the transformation of the artist from medieval artisan to Renaissance genius. She traces his gradual social elevation, which reflected the increasing respect with which he was treated by his patrons. And she notes that the changes in the way he and other artists were viewed created a milieu that encouraged innovation in technique, style, and content, qualities that were vividly displayed in Ghirlandaio’s work. Cadogan explains how his working method, his pragmatic, artisan approach to technique, the organization and functioning of his workshop, and his relations with his patrons affected the works of art Ghirlandaio produced. Her text is complemented by a catalogue raisonné of Ghirlandaio’s works in all media as well as an appendix of documents useful for scholars.
The Place of Narrative
Author: Marilyn Aronberg LavinPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226469607
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Looking at more than two hundred Italian medieval and Renaissance mural cycles, Lavin examines—with the aid of computer technology—the "rearranged" chronologies of familiar religious stories found therein. "Like many masterpieces, Lavin's book builds upon a simple idea . . . it is possible to do a computer analysis of . . . visual narratives. . . . This is the first computer-based study of the visual arts of which I am aware that illustrates how those technologies can utterly transform the study of old master art. An extremely important book, one likely to become the most influential recent study of art of this period, The Place of Narrative is also a beautiful artifact."—David Carrier, Leonardo "Covering over a millennium and dealing with the whole of Italy, Lavin makes pioneering use of new methodology employing a computer database . . . [and] novel terminology to describe the disposition of scenes of church and chapel walls. . . . We should recognize this as a book of high seriousness which reaches out into new areas and which will fruitfully stimulate much thought on a neglected subject of very considerable significance."—Julian Gardner, Burlington Magazine
The Church of Santa Trinita in Florence
Author: Howard SaalmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Florence (Italy)
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
"An earlier version of this report was accepted in ... 1960 by the faculty of the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of doctor of philosophy." Bibliographical footnotes.
A History of Florence, 1200 - 1575
Author: John M. NajemyPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1405178469
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
In this history of Florence, distinguished historian John Najemy discusses all the major developments in Florentine history from 1200 to 1575. Captures Florence's transformation from a medieval commune into an aristocratic republic, territorial state, and monarchy Weaves together intellectual, cultural, social, economic, religious, and political developments Academically rigorous yet accessible and appealing to the general reader Likely to become the standard work on Renaissance Florence for years to come
Art in Renaissance Italy
Author: John T. PaolettiPublisher: Laurence King Publishing
ISBN: 1856694399
Category : Art, Italian
Languages : en
Pages : 575
Book Description
'Art in Renaissance Italy' sets the art of that time in its context, exploring why it was created and in particular looking at who commissioned the palaces and cathedrals, the paintings and the sculptures.
Dressing Renaissance Florence
Author: Carole Collier FrickPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801882647
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
As portraits, private diaries, and estate inventories make clear, elite families of the Italian Renaissance were obsessed with fashion, investing as much as forty percent of their fortunes on clothing. In fact, the most elaborate outfits of the period could cost more than a good-sized farm out in the Mugello. Yet despite its prominence in both daily life and the economy, clothing has been largely overlooked in the rich historiography of Renaissance Italy. In Dressing Renaissance Florence, however, Carole Collier Frick provides the first in-depth study of the Renaissance fashion industry, focusing on Florence, a city founded on cloth, a city of wool manufacturers, finishers, and merchants, of silk dyers, brocade weavers, pearl dealers, and goldsmiths. From the artisans who designed and assembled the outfits to the families who amassed fabulous wardrobes, Frick's wide-ranging and innovative interdisciplinary history explores the social and political implications of clothing in Renaissance Italy's most style-conscious city. Frick begins with a detailed account of the industry itself -- its organization within the guild structure of the city, the specialized work done by male and female workers of differing social status, the materials used and their sources, and the garments and accessories produced. She then shows how the driving force behind the growth of the industry was the elite families of Florence, who, in order to maintain their social standing and family honor, made continuous purchases of clothing -- whether for everyday use or special occasions -- for their families and households. And she concludes with an analysis of the clothes themselves: what pieces made up an outfit; how outfits differed for men, women, and children; and what colors, fabrics, and design elements were popular. Further, and perhaps more basically, she asks how we know what we know about Renaissance fashion and looks to both Florence's sumptuary laws, which defined what could be worn on the streets, and the depiction of contemporary clothing in Florentine art for the answer. For Florence's elite, appearance and display were intimately bound up with self-identity. Dressing Renaissance Florence enables us to better understand the social and cultural milieu of Renaissance Italy.