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Title: The Renaissance Artist at Work: From Pisano to Titian by Bruce Cole ISBN: 0-06-430129-X Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Pub. Date: 01 May, 1983 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)
Rating: 4
Summary: interesting collection of essays
Comment: Over the last 30 years there seems to be a greater interest on the part of art historians in the nuts and bolts issues of how art is created. The works of E.H. Gombrich come to mind, or "The Academy and French Painting in the Nineteenth Century", by Albert Boime. This rather disconnected set of essays by Cole examines the material issues facing the Renaissance artist.
What did paintings cost? How was the artist valued? What expectations surrounded the conception and construction of the work of art? How did the original setting differ from our encounter with these works today? These are some of the questions addressed here. This is not a coffee table book, and the illustrations are low quality black and white (at least in the paper back edition).
Like the other book by Cole that I have read, "Titian and Venetian Painting, 1450-1590", I wish this book was twice as long. Many of the questions touched on here are only given a brief answer, but the information that is here is fascinating. I am not an Art Historian, so I can only guess at the authors reputation (now head of the NEA). My sense is that he is one of those historians with a breadth of knowledge that is quite rare in these days of specialization, and that his viewpoint shows a high degree of originality. My only complaint (aside from the 100 or so color illustrations that could have provided more details) is that the writing style is not as graceful as some of the masters of this genre.
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Title: Renaissance Florence: The Invention of a New Art by A. Richard Turner ISBN: 0131833537 Publisher: Prentice Hall Art History Pub. Date: 01 March, 1997 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: The Rough Guide to Italy by Ros Belford, Rough Guides, Martin Dunford, Celia Woolfrey, Rob Andrews ISBN: 1858286921 Publisher: Rough Guides Limited Pub. Date: 31 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Painting and Experience in Fifteenth Century Italy: A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Style by Michael Baxandall ISBN: 019282144X Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1988 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Lives of the Artists by Giorgio Vasari, Julia Conaway Bondanella, Peter Bondanella, Peter E. Bondanella ISBN: 019283410X Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 1998 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects by Lewis Mumford ISBN: 0156180359 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1968 List Price(USD): $29.00 |
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