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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Partridge, Loren W. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Berkeley : University of California Press, [2015]
Subjects:	Art, Renaissance > Italy > Venice. Architecture, Renaissance > Italy > Venice. Art, Italian > Italy > Venice.

Table of Contents:

I. Fifteenth-century Venice
Civic architecture and urbanism
Churches
Ducal tombs
Freestanding public sculpture
Altarpieces
Confraternities
Palaces
Nonnarratives devotional painting
Narrative devotional painting
Portraits of men
Portraits of women
II. Sixteenth-century Venice
Civic architecture and urbanism
Freestanding public sculpture
Churches
Altarpieces
Ducal tomb
Refectories
Confraternities
Palaces
Nonnarrative devotional paintings
Narrative devotional painting
Secular painting
Portraits of men
Portraits of women
Halls of state
Villas of the Veneto
Conclusion: Patronage.