Research Catalog

Title

History of Italian Renaissance art : painting, sculpture, architecture / Frederick Hartt.

Author

Hartt, Frederick.

Publication

[New York] : H.N. Abrams, 1994.

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Details

Additional Authors

Wilkins, David G.

Description

696 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color); 30 cm

Summary

This volume is a journey through four centuries of Italian Renaissance painting, sculpture, and architecture. Its color illustrations, fine writing, and in-depth scholarship bring into focus all the elements of this extraordinarily creative period and the remarkable personalities who gave it life. Highlights of this fifth edition include a new design with more than half the artworks illustrated in full color, new views of frescoes and sculptures photographed in their original locations that offer insight into the way the art was originally experienced, fresh views of great works of art that have been restored since the last edition, and extended captions that identify Renaissance patrons and provide details about historical context, emphasizing how the art was created and why. Building on the book's more than 30-year tradition, revising author David G. Wilkins blends new scholarly discoveries with the enthusiasm that Hartt conveyed to generations of students and admirers of Italian Renaissance art.

Subject

• Art, Italian
• Art, Renaissance > Italy
• 20.70 European art
• Art, Renaissance
• Schilderkunst
• Plastische kunst
• Bouwkunst
• Italy

Note

• Fold-out map of Rome, Florence, and Venice on endpapers.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 669-677) and index.

Contents

A Portfolio of the Italian Renaissance -- pt. 1. The Late Middle Ages. 1. Italy and Italian Art. 2. Duecento Art in Tuscany and Rome. 3. Florentine Art of the Early Trecento. 4. Sienese Art of the Early Trecento. 5. Later Gothic Art in Tuscany and Northern Italy -- pt. 2. The Quattrocento. 6. The Beginnings of Renaissance Architecture. 7. Gothic and Renaissance in Tuscan Sculpture. 8. Gothic and Renaissance in Florentine Painting. 9. The Heritage of Masaccio and the Second Renaissance Style. 10. The Second Renaissance Style in Architecture and Sculpture. 11. Absolute and Perfect Painting: The Second Renaissance Style. 12. Crisis and Crosscurrents. 13. Science, Poetry, and Prose. 14. The Renaissance in Central Italy. 15. Gothic and Renaissance in Venice and Northern Italy -- pt. 3. The Cinquecento. 16. The High Renaissance in Florence. 17. The High Renaissance in Rome. 18. High Renaissance and Mannerism. 19. High and Late Renaissance in Venice and on the Mainland. 20. Michelangelo and the Maniera.

ISBN

• 0810934175
• 9780810934177

LCCN

93012984

OCLC

• ocm27811231
• 27811231
• SCSB-2057611

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library