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Title Concepts of beauty in Renaissance art / edited by Francis Ames-Lewis and Mary Rogers
Published Aldershot, Hants, England ; Brookfield, Vt., USA : Ashgate, [1999]
©1999

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Description xvi, 241 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents Introduction / Elizabeth Cropper -- The biological basis of Renaissance aesthetics / John Onians -- The perception of beauty in landscape in the quattrocento / Alison Cole -- 'Condecenti et netti ...': beauty, dress and gender in Italian Renaissance art / Jane Bridgeman -- Giovanni Sabadino degli Arienti and a practical definition of magnificence in the context of Renaissance architecture / Rupert Shepherd -- Beauty as an aesthetic and artistic ideal in late fifteenth-century Florence / David Hemsoll -- Defining the beautiful in early Renaissance Germany / Andrew Morrall -- The artist as beauty / Mary Rogers -- 'La più bella e meglio lavorata opera': beauty and good design in Italian Renaissance architecture / Georgia Clarke -- Poetry in motion: beauty in movement and the Renaissance conception of leggiadrìa / Sharon Fermor -- Resplendent vessels: Parmigianino at work in the Steccata / Mary Vaccaro -- Michelangelo's Christian neoplatonic aesthetic of beauty in his early oeuvre: the nuditas virtualis image / Joanne Snow-Smith -- Venetian glass and Renaissance self-fashioning / Paul Hills -- Vasari's interpretation of female beauty / Liana De Girolami Cheney -- The notion of beauty in Francesco Bocchi's Bellezze della città di Fiorenza, I / Thomas Frangenberg -- The notion of beauty in Francesco Bocchi's Bellezze della città di Fiorenza, II / Robert Williams
Analysis Aufsatzsammlung
Notes Paperback edition published 1999
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [207]-226) and index
Subject Arts, Italian.
Arts, Renaissance -- Italy.
Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)
Author Ames-Lewis, Francis, 1943-
Rogers, Mary (Mary Ruth)
LC no. 97017021
ISBN 1859284256 (acid-free paper)