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Record Nr.

UNINA9910141603803321

Titolo

A companion to Renaissance and Baroque art / / edited by Babette Bohn and James M. Saslow

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, West Sussex : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , 2013

ISBN

1-118-39147-0

1-118-39148-9

1-78268-969-9

1-299-24137-9

1-118-39150-0

1-118-39151-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvi, 630 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Wiley-Blackwell companions to art history

THEi Wiley ebooks

Classificazione

702.05

709.02/4

Disciplina

709.02/4

Soggetti

Art, Renaissance

Art, Baroque

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes bibliographical references and index

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. The context : social-historical factors in artistic production -- pt. 2. The artist : creative process and social status -- pt. 3. The object : art as material culture -- pt. 4. The message : subjects and meanings -- pt. 5. The viewer, the critic, and the historian : reception and interpretation as cultural discourse.

Sommario/riassunto

"Through the masterpieces produced by artists ranging from Michelangelo and Leonardo to Rembrandt, Rubens, and Vermeer, Europe's Renaissance and Baroque period grew into one of the most creative times in world history. A Companion to Renaissance and Baroque Art presents a comprehensive collection of interdisciplinary essays that address major aspects of European visual arts produced from approximately 1300 to 1700, a period of artistic flourishing that many consider the beginning of modern history. These essays, however, transcend the traditional period labels of "Renaissance" and "Baroque" by addressing works from Duccio and Chaucer to Velazquez



and Newton as a single continuum, inclusive in terms of both disciplinary and geographical boundaries, as an era best characterized as 'early modern.'"--