Italian Renaissance Art : Understanding Its Meaning
ISBN: 9781118306079 | 1118306074
Edition: 1stFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Pub. Date: 3/4/2013
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With detailed interpretations of works by pivotal figures in the Italian Renaissance, this enlightening volume offers a new interpretation of this period, during which some artists emerged as thoughtful intellectuals devoted to experimentation (the avant-garde) while others repeat older themes again and again (the conservatives). Guided by one of the world's leading art history scholars, readers embark on a journey of discovery that will transform their understanding of this important period in the history of civilization. Eschewing jargon and ... MORE
Frontispiece: Map Showing Places Mentioned
Preface
Introduction: The Italian Renaissance - An Idea Rather than a Period
Chapter 1: What a Difference a Hundred Years Makes
Chapter 2: How it All Started – Florence and Umbria
Chapter 3: What Happened Next in Florence
Chapter 4: Looking for the Renaissance in Siena and Southward to Sicily
Chapter 5: Searching the Renaissance from Northern Italy Back to Umbria
Chapter 6: The Triumph o... MORE
Chapter 7: Some Other Artists of the High Renaissance
Chapter 8: The Swan Song of Renaissance Art
Chapter 9: The Break and the New Avant-Garde – Early Mannerism
Chapter 10: What Was the Italian Renaissance? Conclusions
Christiane L. Joost-Gaugier is a three-time graduate of Harvard University (AB, AM, PhD) and an internationally known art historian. She has taught and lectured in numerous American universities and chaired departments at the University of New Mexico and Wayne State University. Professor Joost-Gaugier has written extensively on Italian art and architecture and has authored more than 200 publications, including six books. Her work has been supported by numerous research grants and published in international journals, exhibition catalogues, and conference proceedings. In 2005 she was awarded an honorary Phi Beta Kappa for Lifetime Achievement by Harvard University.
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