Author: Kim W. Woods
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: renaissance, art, university, open, reconsidered, making
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2007-03-06
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 030012189X
ISBN-13: 9780300121896

This book explores key themes in the making of Renaissance painting, sculpture, architecture, and prints: the use of specific techniques and materials, theory and practice, change and continuity in artistic procedures, conventions and values. It also reconsiders the importance of mathematical perspective, the assimilation of the antique revival, and the illusion of life.Embracing the full significance of Renaissance art requires understanding how it was made. As manifestations of technical expertise and tradition as much as innovation, artworks of this period reveal highly complex creative pro

Authors:The Open University, Kim W. Woods, Carol M. Richards
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: art, renaissance, reconsidered, viewing
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2007-07-10
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0300123434
ISBN-13: 9780300123432

This book focuses on the values, priorities, and motives of patrons and the purposes and functions of art works produced north and south of the Alps and in post-Byzantine Crete. It begins by considering the social range and character of Renaissance patronage and ends with a study of Hans Holbein the Younger and the reform of religious images in Basle and England.Viewing Renaissance Art considers a wide range of audiences and patrons from the rulers of France to the poorest confraternities in Florence. The overriding premise is that art was not a neutral matter of stylistic taste but an aspect

Author: Daniel A. Crews
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Keywords: renaissance, studies, valdes, life, twilight, juan
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2008-10-22
List price: $72.00
ISBN-10: 0802098673
ISBN-13: 9780802098672

Diplomat, courtier, and heretic, Juan de Valdés (c.1500-1541) was one of the most famous humanist writers in Renaissance Spain. In this biography, Daniel A. Crews paints a lively portrait of a complex and fascinating figure by focusing on Valdés’s service as an imperial courtier and how his employments in Italy - after brushes with the Spanish Inquisition - influenced both Spanish diplomacy and his own religious thought. Twilight of the Renaissance focuses on Valdés’s political activities in Charles V’s Italian alliance system and negotiations with the papacy, while painti

Author: Carol M. Richardso
Publisher: Yale University Pre
Keywords: art, renaissance, reconsidered, locating
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2007-04-28
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0300121881
ISBN-13: 9780300121889

Renaissance art history is traditionally identified with Italian centers of production, and Florence in particular. Instead, this book explores the dynamic interchange between European artistic centers and artists and the trade in works of art. It also considers the impact of differing locations on art and artists and some of the economic, political, and cultural factors crucial to the emergence of an artistic center.During c.1420-1520, no city or court could succeed in isolation and so artists operated within a network of interests and local and international identities. The case studies pres

Author: Heinrich F. Plett
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Keywords: renaissance, poetik, poetics
Number of Pages: 440
Published: 1995-07
List price: $202.00
ISBN-10: 3110139642
ISBN-13: 9783110139648

Authors:Ann Rosalind Jones, Peter Stallybrass,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: renaissance, literature, culture, studies, memory, clothing, materials, cambridge
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2001-02-12
List price: $52.00
ISBN-10: 0521786630
ISBN-13: 9780521786638

In Renaissance Clothing and the Materials of Memory Jones and Stallybrass argue that the making and transmission of fabrics and clothing were central to the making of Renaissance culture. Their examination explores the role of clothes as forms of memory transmitted from master to servant, from friend to friend, from lover to lover. This book offers a close reading of literary texts, paintings, textiles, theatrical documents, and ephemera to reveal how clothing and textiles were crucial to gender, sexuality, and religion in the Renaissance.

Author: Masten Jeffrey
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: renaissance, cambridge, studies, literature, culture, drama, textual, collaboration, authorship, sexualities, intercourse
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 1997-02-28
List price: $34.99
ISBN-10: 0521589207
ISBN-13: 9780521589208

Textual Intercourse brings together literary criticism, theater history, the study of printed books, and gender studies, to show how the writing of Renaissance drama was conceptualized in the languages of sex, gender, and eroticism. Jeffrey Masten argues that the plays of Shakespeare and others, and the way in which those plays were first printed, illustrates a shift from a model of collaboration to one of singular authorship. Using methods attuned to sexuality and gender, Masten illuminates questions of authorship and intellectual property.