History of Italian Renaissance art : painting, sculpture, architecture / Frederick Hartt & David G. Wilkins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hartt, Frederick.

Contributor:

Wilkins, David G.

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art, Italian.

Art, Renaissance--Italy.

Art, Renaissance.

Italy.

Physical Description:

736 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 30 cm

Edition:

Sixth edition.

Place of Publication:

Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson Prentice Hall, 2007.

Summary:

History of Italian Renaissance Art, sixth edition, provides readers with an updated understanding of this pivotal period, incorporating new research and current art historical thinking while also maintaining the integrity of the story that Frederick Hartt first told so enthusiastically many years ago. Choosing to retain Frederick Hartt's traditional framework, David Wilkins has introduced a number of changes. Newly added works of art demonstrate the diversity of the period. Secular pieces such as a cassone with its original framework largely intact, an early desco da parto made for the Medici family, two examples of majolica dinnerware, along with a new series of portraits of patrons and personalities of the period have been selected because they enrich our knowledge of the context within which these works were created. Other illustrations have been added to enhance our understanding of important Renaissance works. These include views of architecture and of large fresco cycles and sculptures that remain in situ. There is also an updated bibliography that provides a guide for further reading about artists and key topics. David Wilkins brings a strong, contemporary sensibility to Italian Renaissance art, yet he continues to maintain and emulate the eloquence that was a basic aspect of Frederick Hartt's approach.

Contents:

Italy and Italian art

The late Middle Ages

Duecento art in Tuscany and Rome

Florentine art of the early Trecento

Sienese art of the early Trecento

Later Gothic art in Tuscany and Northern Italy

The Quattrocento

The beginnings of Renaissance architecture

Gothic and Renaissance in Tuscan sculpture

Gothic and Renaissance in Florentine painting

The heritage of Masaccio and the second Renaissance style

The second renaissance style in architecture and sculpture

Absolute and perfect painting: the second Renaissance style

Crisis and crosscurrents

Science, poetry, and prose

The Renaissance in Central Italy

Gothic and Renaissance in Venice and Northern Italy

The Cinquecento

The high Renaissance in Florence

The high Renaissance in Rome

High Renaissance and mannerism

High and late Renaissance in Venice and on the mainland

Michelangelo and the Maniera.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 700-714) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

0131882473

9780131882478

0132216213

9780132216210

OCLC:

62302534