Art of Renaissance Venice, 1400-1600 /
A comprehensive and richly illustrated survey of Venetian Renaissance architecture, sculpture and painting created between 1400 and 1600 addressed to students, travellers and the general public. The works of art are analysed within Venice's cultural circumstances, political, economic, intellect...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
[2015]
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| Summary: | A comprehensive and richly illustrated survey of Venetian Renaissance architecture, sculpture and painting created between 1400 and 1600 addressed to students, travellers and the general public. The works of art are analysed within Venice's cultural circumstances, political, economic, intellectual and religious, and in terms of function, style, iconography, patronage, classical sources, gender, art theories and artist's innovations, rivalries and social status. The text has been divided into two parts, the fifteenth century and the sixteenth century, each part preceded by an introduction that recounts the history of Venice to 1500 and to 1600 respectively, including the city's founding, ideology, territorial expansion, social classes, governmental structure, economy and religion. The twenty-six chapters have been organized to lead readers systematically through the major artistic developments within the three principal categories of art, governmental, ecclesiastic and domestic, and have been arranged sequentially as civic architecture and urbanism, churches, church decoration (ducal tombs and altarpieces), refectories and refectory decoration (section two only), confraternities (architecture and decoration), palaces, palace decoration (devotional works, portraits, secular painting and halls of state), villas and villa decoration. The conclusion offers an overview of the major types of Venetian art and architectural patronage and their funding sources. |
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| Physical Description: | xxiii, 347 pages : chiefly color illustrations, maps, plans ; 21 x 26 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-326) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520281790 (cloth : alk. paper) 0520281799 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780520281806 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0520281802 (pbk. : alk. paper) |