Moral Essays on the High Renaissance - Art in Italy in the Age of Michelangelo

Moral Essays on the High Renaissance consist of critical essays on the art and thought of major figures of sixteenth-century Italian Renaissance art. Looking at these artists from an ethical point of view, these provocative essays set out to discover and describe the moral basis of High Renaissance art.

List of contents

1 List of Figures 2 Preface 3 Acknowledgments 4 Contra Michelangelo 5 Raphael: The Modernist Paradigm, and Other Issues 6 Past and Present in Leonardo's Art 7 On Venetian Painting 8 Vasari on Moral Choice and the Good Life 9 Appendix: The Confessions of Friedrich Vogelfrei 10 Index 11 Illustrations

About the author

Joseph Manca is Professor of Art History at Rice University.

Product details

• Authors: Joseph Manca
• Publisher: University Press Of America
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.08.2001
• EAN: 9780761820574
• ISBN: 978-0-7618-2057-4
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 137 mm x 213 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 295 g
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history