This book gives the necessary background for the study and appreciation of Italian painting and sculpture from about 1250 to 1550. It tells how the artists learned their craft, the organization of their workshops, and the guilds they belonged to; how their customers or patrons treated them and where their work was displayed—churches, civic buildings, or private homes. The book discusses how art was made—tempera, oil, panel, canvas, fresco; it surveys the characteristic types of Renaissance art—altarpieces, portraits, tombs, busts, doors fountains, medals, etc.

The Renaissance Artist at Work: From Pisano to Titian (Icon Editions)

Arts & Photography

COLE, Bruce

History & Criticism

Routledge

This survey of Italian Renaissance art, from a new and different perspective, shows how art was a vital part of society and how all types of art and artists reflected the needs and aspirations of the culture from which they arose. Most books on Renaissance art are based on a chronological study of the major artists and their works. In this book, Bruce Cole covers the major types of art from c. 1250 to c. 1550, discusses their origins and development, documents their use and function, and describes their form and how and why the artists shaped them that way. Art is thus firmly connected with the life and society of the Renaissance rather than viewed as a separate entity: painting and sculpture are seen in their proper context. After a wide-ranging introduction, there are chapters on Italian Renaissance art in relation to domestic life, worship, civic life, death and afterlife, and Renaissance images and ideals.

Italian Art 1250-1550: The Relation Of Renaissance Art To Life And Society

Westview Press

First Icon Paperback Edition Published 1987 - Harper and Row

Sienese Painting: From Its Origins to the Fifteenth Century (Icon Editions Ser.)

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This study discusses all of Piero della Francesca's work, and describes the major influence on his art and its form, content and meaning, as well as the artistic world from which it arose. He was virtually unknown until he was rediscovered by Seurat, Cezanne and later by Bernard Berenson.

Piero Della Francesca: Tradition And Innovation In Form And Idiom In Renaissance Art

Giotto and Florentine painting, 1280-1375 (Icon editions)

Harper

Investigates the history and characteristics of painting in Siena between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries, focusing on Siena's most prominent artists, such as Duccio, Lorenzetti, and Martini

Sienese Painting, from Its Origin to the Fifteenth Century (ICON EDITIONS)

Examines the social functions of Renaissance art and discusses the training, materials, and working conditions of artists during the Renaissance

The Renaissance Artist at Work: From Pisano to Titian (ICON EDITIONS)

This survey of Italian Renaissance art, from a new and different perspective, shows how art was a vital part of society and how all types of art and artists reflected the needs and aspirations of the culture from which they arose. Most books on Renaissance art are based on a chronological study of the major artists and their works. In this book, Bruce Cole covers the major types of art from c. 1250 to c. 1550, discusses their origins and development, documents their use and function, and describes their form and how and why the artists shaped them that way. Art is thus firmly connected with the life and society of the Renaissance rather than viewed as a separate entity: painting and sculpture are seen in their proper context. After a wide-ranging introduction, there are chapters on Italian Renaissance art in relation to domestic life, worship, civic life, death and afterlife, and Renaissance images and ideals.

Italian Art, 1250-1550: The Relation of Renaissance Art to Life and Society

HarperCollins, Publishers

This up-to-date, well illustrated, sensitive introduction to the life and works of one of the giants of Western painting also surveys the golden age of Venetian painting from Bellini to Veronese and its place in the history of Western art. Sometimes referred to as the founder of modern painting Titian's legacy and influence was immense and continuing—Italian Baroque painting, El Greco, Rubens, Rembrandt and Dutch painting, French 18th century painting, Velazquez, and Picasso. This knowledgeable study of a great and enduring artist and a brilliant period of art history will interest general readers and students. There are 119 black and white illustrations integrated with the text and 8 plates in full color, a selected bibliography and index.

Titian And Venetian Painting, 1450-1590 (ICON EDITIONS)

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The Renaissance Artist at Work: From Pisano to Titian (Icon Editions)

Italian Art 1250-1550: The Relation Of Renaissance Art To Life And Society

Sienese Painting: From Its Origins to the Fifteenth Century (Icon Editions Ser.)

Piero Della Francesca: Tradition And Innovation In Form And Idiom In Renaissance Art

Giotto and Florentine painting, 1280-1375 (Icon editions)

Sienese Painting, from Its Origin to the Fifteenth Century (ICON EDITIONS)

The Renaissance Artist at Work: From Pisano to Titian (ICON EDITIONS)

Italian Art, 1250-1550: The Relation of Renaissance Art to Life and Society

Titian And Venetian Painting, 1450-1590 (ICON EDITIONS)

Piero Della Francesca: Tradition And Innovation In Form And Idiom In Renaissance Art