0-06-430231-8 the Methodologies of Art: an Introduction 0-8133-3429-2 Key Monuments of the Italian Renaissance 0-8133-3430-6 Key Monuments of the Baroque 0-8133-3691-0 Italian Renaissance Art

Both psychoanalysts and academics will be enriched by this fascinating synthesis of art and science, of past and present.

Since the nineteenth century, when art history became an established academic discipline, works of art have been read in a variety of ways. These different ways of describing and interpreting art are the methodologies of artistic analysis, the divining rods of meaning. Regardless of a work's perceived difficulty, an art object is, in theory, complex. Every work of art is an expression of its culture (time and place) and its maker (the artist) and is dependent on its media (what it's made of). The methodologies discussed hereformal analysis, iconology and iconography, Marxism, feminism,...

Now thoroughly revised and updated throughout, featuring extended discussions of Mannerism and the expanding role of women in the visual arts and significant illustration program enhancements, Italian Renaissance Art is a readable, student-friendly, lavishly-illustrated introduction to one of the greatest periods of artistic genius in western history.

Art historian Laurie Schneider Adams opens the text with the late Byzantine work of Cimabue and concludes with the transition to Mannerism. The author presents the most important and innovative artists and their principal...