Visions of Heaven - Dante and the Art of Divine Light

This major new study by internationally renowned scholar Martin Kemp is the first book to consider the impact of Dante's vision of divine light on visual artists of the Renaissance and Baroque.

About the author

Martin Kemp is Emeritus Research Professor in the History of Art at Oxford University. He has written and broadcast extensively on imagery in art and science, from the Renaissance to the present day.

Summary

This major new study by internationally renowned scholar Martin Kemp is the first book to consider the impact of Dante's vision of divine light on visual artists of the Renaissance and Baroque.

Additional text

'Martin Kemp’s Visions of Heaven is doubly worth celebrating, for it offers a wonderfully original and stimulating account of Italian Renaissance art by approaching it from a new perspective' – Literary Review

Product details

• Authors: Martin Kemp
• Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2021
• EAN: 9781848224674
• ISBN: 978-1-84822-467-4
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; History of Art, History of art & design styles: c 1400 to c 1600, baroque, Renaissance art, Art & design styles: Baroque, Renaissance style, History of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800, ART / History / European / Renaissance, ART / History / European / Baroque & Rococo