Italian Renaissance Art

by Laurie Schneider Adams

Overview

"The chronology of the Italian Renaissance, its character, and context have long been a topic of discussion among scholars. Some date its beginnings to the fourteenthcentury work of Giotto, others to the generation of Masaccio, Brunelleschi, and Donatello that fl ourished from around 1400. The close of the Renaissance has also proved elusive. Mannerism, for example, is variously considered to be an independent (but subsidiary) late aspect of Renaissance style or a distinct style in its own right."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367319335
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/12/2019
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	448
Product dimensions:	8.25(w) x 11.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

PART ONE — PRECURSORS OF THE RENAISSANCE — CHAPTER ONE — The Thirteenth Century — CHAPTER TWO — Trecento Precursors — PART TWO — THE QUATTROCENTO — CHAPTER THREE — Architecture and Sculpture in Florence: 1400–1430 — CHAPTER FOUR — Painting in Florence: 1400–1430 — CHAPTER FIVE — Painting in Florence: 1430–1460 — CHAPTER SIX — Painting in Florence, II: 1430–1460 — CHAPTER SEVEN — Sculpture and Architecture in Florence: 1430s–1460s — CHAPTER EIGHT — Developments in Siena, Rimini, and Pienza: 1400–1460 — CHAPTER NINE — Developments in Umbria, the Marches, and Naples: 1400s–1460s — CHAPTER TEN — Sculpture and Architecture in Florence after 1450 — CHAPTER ELEVEN — Painting in Florence after 1450 — CHAPTER TWELVE — Fifteenth-Century Developments in Verona, Ferrara, and Mantua — CHAPTER THIRTEEN — Developments in Late Fifteenth- and Early Sixteenth-Century Venice — PART THREE — THE CINQUECENTO — CHAPTER FOURTEEN — Leonardo and Bramante: Late Fifteenth- and Early Sixteenth-Century Developments in Florence and Milan — CHAPTER FIFTEEN — Michelangelo and Raphael: The Late Fifteenth Century to 1505 — CHAPTER SIXTEEN — Bramante, Michelangelo, Raphael: Developments in Rome to 1520 — CHAPTER SEVENTEEN — Venice in the Sixteenth Century — CHAPTER EIGHTEEN — Michelangelo after 1520 and the Transition to Mannerism — Timeline — Glossary of Art-Historical and Stylistic Terms — Select Bibliography — Notes — Picture Credits — Index.

Editorial Reviews

Adams (art history, John Jay College, City U. of New York) has produced an undergraduate textbook which contains a manageable history of the Italian Renaissance; it's about half the size of the well known text by Frederick Hartt. Adams begins with the early precursors Cimabue and Nicola Pisano before turning to Duccio and Giotto, who are covered in depth. The book concludes with the beginning of Mannerism, which is not covered. Numerous inset boxes provide short political histories, biographies of important thinkers and writers, and describe painting techniques. The frequent, good quality illustrations are mostly in color. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Booknews

"A clearly written, straightforward account of the story of Italian Renaissance art from its origins to Mannerism. The bulk of the material centers around central Italian painting, as it should, but other important, smaller centers are also included. The discussion of the various art forms is nicely balanced…. I especially liked the sidebars which add necessary material—historical, literary, technical and so forth—to the text without encumbering it…. This is a very good book which should furnish us with the new and useable text we have been waiting for. I would certainly use it in my classroom."
—Bruce Cole, Distinguished Professor, Chairman, department of the history of art, Indiana University

”This sensibly selective and well-written introduction to Italian Renaissance art covers the main centers throughout Italy and describes the major artists and their works from different critical and methodological points of view. The large-format illustrations make this text particularly useful.”
—The late James Beck, Professor of Art History, Columbia University

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