| Description |
351 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 25 cm |
| Series |
Oxford history of art |
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Oxford history of art.
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| Contents |
Artistic Enterprises. Materials and Methods. The Organization of Art. Defining Relationships: Artists and Patrons -- Audiences for Art. The Sacred Setting. Sites of Devotion -- The Art of Government. Creating Authority. Rome and the Republics -- Art and the Household. The Domestic Setting |
| Summary |
Evelyn Welch presents a fresh picture of Italian art between the 'Black Death' in the mid-fourteenth century and the French invasions at the end of the fifteenth. In it, Florence is no longer the only important centre of artistic activity but takes its place alongside other equally interesting and varied cities of the Italian peninsula. Oil paintings are examined alongside frescos, tapestries, sculptures in bronze and marble, manuscript illuminations, objects in precious metals, and a wide range of other works. Evelyn Welch explains artistic techniques and workshop practices, and discusses contextual issues such as artist-patron relationships, political and religious uses of art, and the ways in which visual imagery related to contemporary sexual and social behaviour. Above all she recreates the dramatic experiences of contemporary Italians - the patrons who commissioned the works, the members of the public who viewed them, and the artists who produced them |
| Analysis |
Art and society -- Italy |
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Art, Italian |
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Art, Renaissance -- Italy |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 326-335) and index |
| Subject |
Art and society -- Italy.
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Art, Italian -- 14th century.
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Art, Italian -- 15th century.
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Art, Italian.
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Art, Renaissance -- Italy.
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| SUBJECT |
Italy http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79021783 -- Art http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001934 -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024
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| LC no. |
96037916 |
| ISBN |
019284203X (paperback: acid-free paper) |
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0192842455 (hb : acid-free paper) |
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