Italian Renaissance Masterworks

Informationen zum Autor Peter Crack wrote his PhD thesis on the collecting and reception of Italian Renaissance art in Britain at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. He has lectured on the Renaissance at the Victoria and Albert Museum and published articles and reviews in the field of art history in The British Art Journal, Apollo and Master Drawings. Luke Uglow is a lecturer in Art History at the University of York. His research is focused on the reception of Italian Renaissance Art in the nineteenth century, particularly the historiography of early sixteenth-century Venetian painting. He has previously taught art history at the universities of Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Manchester. Klappentext A authoritative art book with full-page reproductions of famous works of the Italian Renaissance. Zusammenfassung The Renaissance (14th–17th C) was a pivotal period in the development of Western art, and Italy was its crucible. With fascinating insights and lush reproductions, this sumptuous book celebrates the prolific output of this era, from the radical perspective of Giotto to the High Renaissance giants: Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Raphael.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Crack
• Assisted by: Luke Uglow (Foreword)
• Publisher: Flame Tree Publishing
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 31.12.2020
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art
• EAN: 9781839641886
• ISBN: 978-1-83964-188-6
• Pages: 192
• Series: Masterworks
• Subjects: ART / History / Renaissance; Painting & paintings; Renaissance art; Art & Design; Leonardo da Vinci; Medici; Renaissance art; Mona Lisa; The Last Supper; famous paintings; Donatello; Michelangelo; Raphael