Color and meaning : practice and theory in Renaissance painting / Marcia B. Hall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hall, Marcia B.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Painting, Renaissance.

Physical Description:

xiv, 274 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Contents:

Introduction : can we know what Renaissance color was?

The Cennini system

Duccio, Christ healing the man born blind

Giotto, Betrayal of Christ

Fra Angelico, Descent from the cross

Alberti, Flemish technique, and the introduction of oil

Jan van Eyck, Virgin of the Canon van der Paele

Domenico Veneziano, The Madonna and Child with saints (Saint Lucy altarpiece)

Piero della Francesca, Madonna and Child with saints (Montefeltro altarpiece)

Perugino, Lamentation over the dead Christ

The modes of coloring in the cinquecento

Leonardo da Vinci, Mona Lisa

Michelangelo, The Sistine Chapel vault

Raphael, Transfiguration

Sebastiano del Piombo, Flagellation, Transfiguration, Prophets

Andrea del Sarto, Madonna of the harpies

Mannerism and counter-reformation

Pontormo, Entombment

Bronzino, Pietà

Perino del Vaga, Sala Paolina

Barocci, Entombment

Venice and the development of tonal painting

Giorgione, La tempesta

Titian, Bacchus and Ariadne

Titian, Danaë visited by the shower of gold

Jacopo Tintoretto, The last supper.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0521392225

OCLC:

23766002