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.

Sommario

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

Info autore

Joseph Manca is Professor of Art History at Rice University.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Joseph Manca, Manca Joseph
• Editore: Ingram Publishers Services
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 21.08.2001
• EAN: 9780761820574
• ISBN: 978-0-7618-2057-4
• Dimensioni: 137 mm x 213 mm x 14 mm
• Peso: 295 g
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Storia dell'arte; ART / History / General, History of art / art & design styles, History of Art, Painting & paintings, Paintings and painting