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How to Read Italian Renaissance Painting
Filled with great masterpieces by such artists as Botticelli, Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, Masaccio, Piero della Francesca, Mantegna, and Titian, How to Read Italian Renaissance Painting takes the reader into their world. As in the internationally successful and innovative How to Read a Painting, each spread uses an important painting as a way to explain a key concept, with numerous large details. Here, 180 works illuminate key ideas in Renaissance painting, from "perpective" and "the golden section" to "grace" and "symbolism." In addition, there are brief biographies of the major artists. The result is an original, accessible, and affordable volume that offers an introduction into the art and culture of the Italian Renaissance.
Leonardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo, and the Renaissance in Florence
The book outlines the historical context of the Florentine High Renaissance and then discusses drawings, paintings, and sculpture in turn. Focusing on major artists and their contemporaries and allies, the authors demonstrate the great importance of drawing during this period and show that there was a consistency in the brand of creativity found in such artists as Michelangelo, Fiorentino, Cellini, and Bronzino. The authors question the relevance of terms like High Renaissance and Mannerism, and they contend that, contrary to commonly held assumptions, there was no strong stylistic division between art produced in Florence before and after the death of Raphael in 1520.
The Mirror of the Gods : How the Renaissance Artists Rediscovered the Pagan Gods
Tells the revolutionary story of how the great artists of Western Europe--from Botticelli and Leonardo to Titian and Rubens--revived the gods of ancient Greece and Rome. Each chapter focuses on a different deity and sheds dazzling new light on such familiar figures as Venus, Hercules, and Bacchus. Bull draws on hundreds of illustrations to illuminate the ancient myths through the eyes of Renaissance and Baroque artists, not as they appear in classical literature. When the wealthy and powerful princes of Christian Europe began to identify with the pagan gods, myth became the artist's medium for telling the story of his own time. The Mirror of the Gods is the fascinating and extraordinary story of how Renaissance artists combined mythological imagery and artistic virtuosity to change the course of western art.
Sensory World of Italian Renaissance Art by 
Leonardo, Michelangelo, and the Art of the Figure by 
The Painted Book in Renaissance Italy - 1450-1600 by 
The Patron's Payoff : Conspicuous Commissions in Italian Renaissance Art
Building on three economic concepts--signaling, signposting, and stretching--the book develops the first systematic methodology for assessing the meaning of art patronage and provides a broad and useful framework for understanding how works of art functioned in Renaissance Italy.
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Painters — Italy
Art, Renaissance
Art, Renaissance — Italy
Art, Early Renaissance — Italy
Arts, Renaissance
Artists -- Italy
Art -- Technique
Artists' materials
Humanism -- Italy
Medici, House Of
Fine Arts books are located on the Upper Level, and in the Oversized section on the Lower Level of the library, in the following call number sections. See the Geisel Library floor plan for the locations of these sections.
BR Christianity (located on the Main Level of the library)
DG445 Italy during the Renaissance
NA Architecture
NB Sculpture
NC Drawing and Design
ND Painting
NK Decorative Arts; Ceramics
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