Revaluing Renaissance Art

ISBN-13: 9781138734197 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 258 str.

Gabriele Neher; Rupert Shepherd

Opis

This title was first published in 2000:  Michelangelo gave his painting of "Leda and the Swan" to an apprentice rather than hand it over to the emissary of the Duke of Ferrar, who had commissioned it.

Spis treści

The price of quality - factors influencing the cost of pigments during the Renaissance; "artefici" and "huomini intendenti" - questions of artistic value in 16th-century Italy; "Dante Alighieri poeta fiorentino" - cultural values in the 1481 "Divine Comedy"; Mantegna's "Parnassus" - reading, collecting and the "studiolo"; Alfonso I. d'Este, Michelangelo and the man who bought pigs; new, old and second-hand culture - the case of the Renaissance sleeve; evaluating textiles in Renaissance Venice; re-valuing dress in history paintings for quattrocento Florence; the Madonna and child, a host of saints and domestic devolution in renaissance Florence; images of St Catherine - a re-evaluation of Cosimo Rosselli and the influence of his art on the woodcut and metal engraving images of the Dominican Third Order; voting with their feet - art, pilgrimage and ratings in the Renaissance; madness, reason, vision and the cosmos - evaluating the drawings of Opicinus de Canistris (1296-c 1351).

O autorze

Edited by Gabriele Neher, Rupert Shepherd