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Author: David Ekserdjian Publisher: ISBN: 9780300253641 Category : Languages : en Pages : 496
Book Description
The altarpiece is one of the most distinctive and remarkable art forms of the Renaissance period. It is difficult to imagine an artist of the time--whether painter or sculptor, major or minor--who did not produce at least one. Though many have been displaced or dismembered, a substantial proportion of these works still survive. Despite the volume of material available, no serious attempt has ever been made to examine the whole subject in depth until now. The Italian Renaissance Altarpiece is the first comprehensive study of the genre to examine its content and subject matter in real detail, from the origins of the altarpiece in the 13th century to the time of Caravaggio in the early 1600s. It discusses major developments in the history of these objects throughout Italy, covers the three key categories of Renaissance altarpiece--"immagini" (icons), "historie" (narratives), and "misteri" (mysteries)--and is illustrated with 250 beautiful reproductions of the artworks.
Author: David Ekserdjian Publisher: ISBN: 9780300253641 Category : Languages : en Pages : 496
Book Description
The altarpiece is one of the most distinctive and remarkable art forms of the Renaissance period. It is difficult to imagine an artist of the time--whether painter or sculptor, major or minor--who did not produce at least one. Though many have been displaced or dismembered, a substantial proportion of these works still survive. Despite the volume of material available, no serious attempt has ever been made to examine the whole subject in depth until now. The Italian Renaissance Altarpiece is the first comprehensive study of the genre to examine its content and subject matter in real detail, from the origins of the altarpiece in the 13th century to the time of Caravaggio in the early 1600s. It discusses major developments in the history of these objects throughout Italy, covers the three key categories of Renaissance altarpiece--"immagini" (icons), "historie" (narratives), and "misteri" (mysteries)--and is illustrated with 250 beautiful reproductions of the artworks.
Author: Jacob Burckhardt Publisher: ISBN: 9780714824772 Category : Altarpieces, Italian Languages : en Pages : 240
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An illustrated book on the religious altarpieces of the Italian Renaissance. Written in 1898, these essays reveal how the altarpieces were not only beautiful creations but were also the product of developments in painting.
Author: Sassetta Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 9780674035232 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 646
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Sassetta, the subtle genius from Siena, revolutionized Italian painting with an altarpiece for the small Tuscan town of Borgo San Sepolcro in 1437-1444. To produce this volume, experts in art and general history have joined forces across the boundaries of eight different nations to explore Sassetta's work.
Author: Eve Borsook Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 322
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Since the 1960s, the Italian altarpiece has attracted unprecedented scholarly attention, bringing artistic, liturgical, social and technical considerations to bear on the subject. The eight contributors to this book provide an impressive synopsis of the different approaches developed in order to enlarge and deepen our knowledge of paintings in terms of their historical functions. Patronage, morphology, religious meaning, pictorial composition, reception, and original setting are all discussed. In several cases, new light is shed on paintings that until a few years ago were dealt with only as elements within a history of style. In nearly all the contributions there is an overwhelming concern with reconstruction, and much new material is presented concerning the historical significance of a specific category of painting. This volume is the result of an international symposium held in June 1988 at the Harvard University for Italian Renaissance Studies at Villa I Tatti in Florence.
Author: Alison Wright Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 0300238843 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 354
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Frame Work explores how framing devices in the art of Renaissance Italy respond, and appeal, to viewers in their social, religious, and political context.
Author: Alexander Nagel Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 0226567729 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 372
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Sansovino successively dismantled and reconstituted the categories of art-making. Hardly capable of sustaining a program of reform, the experimental art of this period was succeeded by a new era of cultural codification in the second half of the sixteenth century. --
Author: Steven J. Cody Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004431934 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 312
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Andrea del Sarto (1486–1530) created altarpieces of startling beauty. Steven J. Cody analyzes those remarkable paintings as a means of illuminating the artist’s career-long engagement with Christian theology.
Author: Scott Nethersole Publisher: National Gallery London Publications ISBN: 9781857095258 Category : Altarpieces Languages : en Pages : 0
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Published on the occasion of an exhibition of works chiefly from the collection of the National Gallery, London, held there, July 6-Oct. 2, 2011.
Author: Stephen Miller Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing ISBN: 1443886750 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 158
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This book explores the areas of perspective, proportion, witness and theological threshold in the devotional art of the Italian Renaissance, with particular reference to the painted image of Christ. While the Incarnation, in a very real way, legitimised the idea of the portrayal of God in human form (as Jesus Christ), problems remained as to how this might be achieved and whether it should be restricted to the second person of the Holy Trinity. This book looks at the creation of pictorial space and the presentation of the image – paying special attention to schemes of perspective, as a way to better describe reality, as well as to considerations of proportion through such geometric methodology as the Golden Section and dynamic root-rectangles (based on certain ‘perfect’ or divine ratios) to balance and harmonise form. The Word Made Visible in the Painted Image also explores the theological theme of threshold and liminal space, describes how themes such as the Incarnation and Revelation were represented, and looks at the symbolism employed in so doing. It shows how such themes were captured, set in space and communicated in the painted image. This study is necessarily interdisciplinary, combining the subject areas of art history and theory, theology, biblical study, philosophy, aesthetics, physics, metaphysics, mathematics, geometry, optics, physiology, psychology, and sociology, in greater and lesser degrees. Few books take such an interdisciplinary stance on art, theology, science and related disciplines to this extent.
Author: David Ekserdjian
Author: David Ekserdjian
Author: Jacob Burckhardt
Author: Peter Humfrey
Author: Sassetta
Author: Eve Borsook
Author: Alison Wright
Author: Alexander Nagel
Author: Steven J. Cody
Author: Scott Nethersole
Author: Stephen Miller