Architecture in Italy, 1500-1600 (The Yale University Press Pelican History of Art)
by Wolfgang Lotz
from Yale University Press
This classic work presents a survey of Italian Renaissance architecture in the Cinquecento, discussing the work of Bramante, Giulio Romano, Michelangelo, and Palladio, among others, as well as the various centers of architectural activity throughout Italy. First published in 1974 as part two of Architecture in Italy, 1400-1600, Lotz`s text is now accompanied by a critical introduction and updated bibliography by Deborah Howard.
The High Renaissance and Mannerism: Italy, the North, and Spain, 1500-1600 (World of Art)
by Linda Murray
from Thames & Hudson
Architecture in Italy, 1400-1500 (The Yale University Press Pelican History of Art)
by Ludwig H. Heydenreich
from Yale University Press
This classic survey of Italian Renaissance architecture ranges from the erection of Brunelleschi`s dome for the Florence Cathedral to the works of Bramante and Leonardo in the Quattrocentro. First published in 1974 as part one of Architecture in Italy, 1400-1600, Heydenreich`s text is now accompanied by a critical introduction and updated bibliography by Paul Davies.
Drawings of Pontormo (Master Draughtsman Series)
by Jacopo Carucci Pontoromo
from Borden Pub Co
Italian Frescoes: High Renaissance and Mannerism 1510-1600
from Abbeville Press
The third volume in the only comprehensive modern survey of the surviving frescoes created during the later years of the great Italian Renaissance to the Baroque.
Following the success of the previous volumes in this extraordinary series--Italian Frescoes: The Early Renaissance and Italian Frescoes: The Flowering of the Renaissance—this volume presents twenty-two fresco cycles, each representing a notable achievement in the history of art. The fresco cycles featured include brilliant works by Michelangelo, Raphael, Titian, Andrea del Sarto, Parmigianino, Bronzino, Veronese, and Carracci --all of them still visible on walls and ceilings of palaces and churches spanning Italy from the Veneto to Rome. Here are such celebrated sites as the Sistine Chapel in Rome and Palladio's Villa Barbaro in Maser, as well as lesser known gems.
Each of the twenty-two chapters is concise and authoritative, offering a descriptive and interpretive essay on all aspects of fresco painting, covering the artists and their patrons in the context of their cultural and political history. Each essay concludes with a diagram of the site, followed by a series of full- and double-page color plates showing the entire cycle, many reproduced from new photographs of recently restored frescoes.
No publisher until now has attempted to gather together and document all the important fresco cycles of the Italian Renaissance. While this volume is a continuation of the previous books, The High Renaissance to the Baroque easily stands alone as an incredible treasury of art and scholarship, which will be eagerly collected by art historians and art lovers alike.
Other Details: 360 full-color illustrations
Painting in Italy, 1500-1600: Third Edition (The Yale University Press Pelican Histor)
Palladio's Venice: Architecture and Society in a Renaissance Republic
by Tracy E. Cooper
from Yale University Press
In this fascinating and beautifully illustrated book, Tracy E. Cooper organizes Palladio’s work in Venice according to different types of patrons. She discusses his major monuments as well as less well-known work for charitable foundations, convents, triumphal processions, and the rebuilding of the Ducal Palace. She tells the compelling story of an established architect breaking into a new market and of a Renaissance city in the midst of sweeping change.
Mannerism and Anti-Mannerism in Italian Painting (Interpretations in Art)
by W. Friedlaender
from Columbia University Press
El Greco: Domenikos Theotokopoulos, 1541-1614 (Taschen Basic Art)
by Michael Scholz-Hansel
from Taschen
Cretan-born painter Domenicos Theotocopoulos, better known by his Spanish nickname, El Greco (c.1545-1614), studied under Titian in Venice before settling down in Toldeo. Commissioned by the church and local nobility, El Greco produced dramatic paintings marked by distorted figures and vibrant color contrasted with subtle grays. Though his work was appreciated by his contemporaries, especially intellectuals, it wasn't until the 20th century that it was widely embraced and admired, influencing in particular the Expressionist movement.
Gombrich On the Renaissance - Volume 1: Norm and Form (Gombrich on the Renaissance)
by E.H. Gombrich
from Phaidon Press
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