For the fourth edition of this introduction to Italian sculpture, the author has thoroughly revised the text, notes and bibliographies, incorporating all the significant new research and publications since the last major revision in 1970-2. Volume II, spanning the 15th century, is dominated by the revolutionary genius of Donatello, whose work is illustrated. The author traces through this period the development, or revival of the free-standing statue, the relief, the bronze statuette, the equestrian monument and the portrait bust. Other great masters include Luca della Robbia, Verrocchio, Antonio Rossellino, Desiderio da Settignano, Riccio, Francesco Laurana and Tullio Lombardo. The new edition of this work provides an accessible introduction to the subject for scholars, students and all lovers of Italian art. At the same time its scholarly notes make it a valuable reference work. Each volume in the set of three can be enjoyed in its own right.

Italian Renaissance Sculpture (Introduction to Italian Sculpture)

Arts & Photography

JOHN POPE-HENNESSY

History & Criticism

Vintage

The British Library's Yates-Thompson manuscript of Dante's Divine Comedy, probably created around 1445 to delight the King of Naples, is a unique treasure. Its 61 miniatures of the "Paradiso" - the third and last book of the poem - are firmly attributed to the Sienese artist Giovanni di Paolo, and have always been recognized as outstanding works of art. They are almost perfectly preserved, the blues and fleshtones retaining tremendous clarity and immediacy. This fabulous cycle of illustrations is now reproduced in colour for the first time. Unlike other illuminated editions of the "Divine Comedy", it not only portrays the events of the poem - Dante and Beatrice rising through Paradise and encountering various saints and saved souls - but also depicts the stories Dante hears and the metaphors and classical allusions in the narrative. Each miniature is reproduced in facsimile, together with a commentary explaining its subject and relation to the narrative, often with additional enlarged details. A substantial introduction surveys contemporary illustration of Dante and discusses Giovanni di Paolo's work in the context of his artistic career. The text of the Paradiso is provided in the celebrated translation by Charles Singleton.

Paradiso: The Illuminations to Dante's Divine Comedy by Giovanni di Paolo

Thames and Hudson

After four centuries of almost complete neglect, Piero della Francesca is now one of the best known and best loved of all Renaissance painters - to such an extent that the route from one work to another has become the tourists' "Piero della Francesca Trail". Sir John Pope-Hennessy takes a fresh look at the facts of Piero's career and the significance of his paintings. A clear chronology establishes the probable sequence of his activities in Arezzo, Borgo San Sepolcro, Monterchi and Urbino. In assessing the greatness of Piero's art, we need to concentrate on the works themselves: their structure, their theoretical basis, their use of mathematical research and the visual sensibility that was peculiar to Piero's own psychology. Only then shall we see them for what they really are.

The Piero della Francesca trail (The Twenty-third of the Walter Neurath memorial lectures)

THAMES HUDSON LTD

This major work by one of the twentieth century's most eminent art historians is available again in paperback through Princeton University Press. Here John Pope-Hennessy takes as his subject two centuries of experiment in portraiture during the Renaissance. He shows how the Renaissance cult of individuality brought with it a demand that the features of the individual be perpetuated. This concept was first manifested in the portraits that fill the great Florentine fresco cycles and led, later in the fifteenth century, to the creation of the independent portrait by such artists as Botticelli, Antonio Pollaiuolo, Giovanni Bellini, and Antonello da Messina. The author goes on to describe the process by which Titian and the great artists of the High Renaissance transformed the portrait from a record of appearance into an analysis of character.

The Portrait in the Renaissance: The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts

Princeton University Press

This major work by one of the twentieth century's most eminent art historians is available again in paperback through Princeton University Press. Here John Pope-Hennessy takes as his subject two centuries of experiment in portraiture during the Renaissance. He shows how the Renaissance cult of individuality brought with it a demand that the features of the individual be perpetuated. This concept was first manifested in the portraits that fill the great Florentine fresco cycles and led, later in the fifteenth century, to the creation of the independent portrait by such artists as Botticelli, Antonio Pollaiuolo, Giovanni Bellini, and Antonello da Messina. The author goes on to describe the process by which Titian and the great artists of the High Renaissance transformed the portrait from a record of appearance into an analysis of character.

The Portrait in the Renaissance (Bollingen Series)

NY 1980 Metropolitan Museum of Art. 4to., 270pp., photo illus. Fine in Fine DJ.

Study and Criticism of Italian Sculpture

Sculpture

Metropolitan Museum of Art

In perfect condition, still in original shrinkwrap

Italian Paintings in the Robert Lehman Collection, Vol.1

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Blends biography, history, and analysis of the great goldsmith and sculptor's works to understand the teeming imagination and complex personality of this archetypical Renaissance figure

Cellini

Individual Artists

Abbeville Pr

More personal and sophisticated than a standard guidebook, this essential guide to the Piero masterpieces provides a rare glimpse of the workings of the heart and mind of a world-famous art historian as he looks at and thinks about the paintings andfrescoes. One by one, he describes the stories they portray, their meticulous composition, and the crucial and surprising role of fate in the commission for the church of San Francesco. Originally published in 1993, the book quickly achieved a cult following; this new edition includes, for the first time, Aldous Huxley's "The Best Picture," the famous essay that first inspired Pope-Hennessy to seek out the luminous and enigmatic works that now constitute the pilgrimage known as The Piero della Francesca Trail. The thousands of tourists who travel to Tuscany each year to follow the trail will welcome the republication of this beautifully designed volume.

The Piero Della Francesca Trail, with The Best Picture

Aldous, Huxley

Little Bookroom

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