Art

For courses in Renaissance Art.

Through close examination of Renaissance paintings, drawings, book illustrations, and other art works, Patricia Fortini Brown brings fourteenth and fifteenth century Venice alive. She explores the role of the guilds and the nobility, the unique island setting, the environment of the church and the private home, the political rivalries with other states, the taste for symbols and metaphors, the myriad qualities that made Venice distinct and its art unique. Carefully interweaving art-historical analysis of individual works (both famous and little-known) with rich contextual discussions, she reveals a culture of high beauty, artifice, and craftsmanship.

• A concise yet thorough visit to the vast and rich world of Venetian art.

  • Gives students a fresh view of the arts, architecture, and decorative traditions connected with Venice. Ex.___

• A marvelous picture—Not only of the art world in Venice but also of the city itself.

  • Offers fascinating profiles of the way people lived, the politics of the time, and topics such as the Venetian Jews during the Renaissance. Ex.___

• Works of art within their social, cultural, political, geographic, economic and religious contexts—Considers the life and times of Venice during its greatest age.

  • Shows students how the arts are influenced by other fields, and vice versa. Ex.___

• Accessible writing style.

  • Communicates at a level that is accessible to the common reader and the student. Ex.___

• A wealth of vivid images—Including Carpaccio's Two Venetian Ladies on a Terrace and Hunting in the Lagoon shown in its complete form for the first time in print! Splendid Titians, featuring Giorgiones, and others. Photos of a Renaissance palazzo at different times of day, showing how reflected light from the canals changes with sun and shadow and affects the way art is seen in Venice. Period maps.

  • Helps students to see, and better understand, the works being discussed. Ex.___

1. Venezianità: The Otherness of the Venetians.


2. The Making of a Visual World.


3. The Art of Public Life.


4. A Pious People.


5. Private Worlds.


6. Caste, Class, and Gender.


Timeline.


Bibliography.


Picture Credits.


Index.

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For courses in Renaissance Art.

Through close examination of Renaissance paintings, drawings, book illustrations, and other art works, Patricia Fortini Brown brings fourteenth and fifteenth century Venice alive. She explores the role of the guilds and the nobility, the unique island setting, the environment of the church and the private home, the political rivalries with other states, the taste for symbols and metaphors, the myriad qualities that made Venice distinct and its art unique. Carefully interweaving art-historical analysis of individual works (both famous and little-known) with rich contextual discussions, she reveals a culture of high beauty, artifice, and craftsmanship.

• Art and Life in Renaissance Venice, Perspectives Series
  Brown
  © 1998 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 176 pages | Out of Stock
  ISBN-10: 0136184553 | ISBN-13: 9780136184553
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For upper-level undergraduate courses in Italian Renaissance Art.

“Art mattered in the Renaissance... People expected painting, sculpture, architecture, and other forms of visual art to have a meaningful effect on their lives,” write the authors of this important new look at Italian Renaissance art.

A glance at the pages of Art in Renaissance Italy shows at once its freshness and breadth of approach, which includes thorough explanation into how and why works of art, buildings, prints, and other forms of visual production came to be. The authors also discuss how men and women of the Renaissance regarded art and artists, why works of Renaissance art look the way they do, and what this means to us. Unlike other books on the subject, this one covers not only Florence and Rome, but also Venice and the Veneto, Assisi, Siena, Milan, Pavia, Padua, Mantua, Verona, Ferrara, Urbino, and Naples–each governed in a distinctly different manner, every one with individual, political, and social structures that inevitably affected artistic styles. Spanning more than three centuries, the narrative brings to life the rich tapestry of Italian Renaissance society and the art that is its enduring legacy. Throughout, special features, including textual sources from the period and descriptions of social rituals, evoke and document the people and places of this dynamic age.

• Art in Renaissance Italy, Perspectives Series, 3/E
  Paoletti & Radke
  © 2006 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 544 pages | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0131935100 | ISBN-13: 9780131935105
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For introductory college-level courses in art history that include a survey of Italian Renaissance art. It may also appeal to the general reader interested in art history, especially the Renaissance.

This text combines a discussion of history and art as it focuses on the smaller courts of Mantua, Ferrara, Naples, and Urbino that produced an extraordinary amount of great art. The book presents the work created there as the culmination of the desire of princes and dukes wishing to show the world their magnificence as rulers and their virtue as leaders of culture.

• Art of Italian Renaissance Courts, The (Reissue), Perspectives Series
  Cole
  © 2006 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 192 pages | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0131343998 | ISBN-13: 9780131343993
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For undergraduate courses after the introductory survey. Suitable also as supplement to the introductory survey. Suitable also for junior-senior-level and specialized courses.

Part of Prentice Hall's Perspectives series of moderately priced, heavily illustrated, high-quality paperback books on specific subjects in art history, this book discusses the art of Rome in the Renaissance in the context of its patronage.

• Art of Renaissance Rome, The (Reissue), Perspectives Series
  Partridge
  © 2006 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 184 pages | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0131344005 | ISBN-13: 9780131344006
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For introductory college courses in Renaissance Art. It is also suitable as a supplement for history courses that survey the period.

In this series, accomplished authors accurately cover a range of subjects using up-to-date methodologies and impressive visual formats. Additionally, all titles are modestly priced. This is the first book to present a broad overview of the art of the Renaissance from Northern Europe within its historical context.

• Mirror of the Artist, The: Art of Northern Renaissance, Perspectives Series
  Harbison
  © 1996 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 176 pages | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0133685497 | ISBN-13: 9780133685497
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For courses in Renaissance Art.

This text offers an incisive and original account of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Florentine art in its social, cultural, political, geographic, economic and religious settings. Ranging in scope from monumental and public artworks to the intimacy of the domestic interior, it explores artistic patronage and the working conditions of artists in a way that is fully accessible to the inexperienced reader.

• Renaissance Florence (Reissue), Perspectives Series
  Turner
  © 2006 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 176 pages | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0131344013 | ISBN-13: 9780131344013
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For college art history survey courses that focus on the Romanesque period. It may also appeal to the general reader interested in the period.

Presents the Romanesque period, from 1050 to 1200 A.D., through an entirely new approach; including discussions of issues important to the period. Among these are society, the role of women, patronage, and the development of institutions such as the monastery and the university. This approach serves to enliven a period in art and culture that had been previously burdened by reference as “the Dark Ages.”

• Romanesque Art, Perspectives Series
  Petzold
  © 1996 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 176 pages | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0134335171 | ISBN-13: 9780134335179
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