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Sienese art was very deliberately shaped and sustained by the patronage of powerful and wealthy families, such as the Petrucci, Piccolomini and the Spannochi, to provide an artistic language for an ambitious city.
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Explores the development of portrait painting in Northern and Southern Europe during the Renaissance, when the genre first flourished. This book considers the relationship between artists of the north and south to illuminate the notion of likeness. It offers research on some of t ...
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A new examination of Leonardo's career that illuminates his time as court painter to the Duke of Milan, an experience that fundamentally changed his outlook and his legacy
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You are what you own. So believed many of the elite men and women of Renaissance Italy. The notion that a person's belongings transmit something about their personal history, status, and character was renewed in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Objects of Virtue exp ...
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- The first major publication in English to focus on Pisanello's work as a painter and medallist - Essential reading for specialists, students and general readers interested in early Renaissance art and the chivalric values and humanist culture of fifteenth-century Italian court ...
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Pisanello (1394-1455) was the most famous artist of his time, celebrated as both painter and medallist. His work is both exquisitely beautiful and rare - only four undisputed panel paintings by him survive, and little has been published about him in English. This book provides a ...
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The portrait in the Renaissance has long been connected with the cult of personality . This text shows that definitions of individuality inspired portraits in a large range of media, which may be faithful to their subject but also may be idealized, generalized or exaggerated acc ...
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Focusing on the Italian renaissance, this illustrated work examines the complicated relationships between the fine arts - painting and sculpture - and artefacts of other kinds for which artistry and disegno might be as important as utility.
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Explaining the complicated relationship between the fine arts and artefacts of other kinds, for which artistry might be just as important, this book features Renaissance-period pieces designed by notable artists of the time, as well as lesser known specialists.
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