Art of Italian Renaissance Courts, The (Reissue), Perspectives Series

by Alison Cole (Author)

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  Paperback
  2005

  $3.25

  For introductory college-level courses in art history that include a survey of Italian Renaissance art. It may also appeal to the general reader interested in art history, especially the Renaissance.

  This text combines a discussion of history and art as it focuses on the smaller courts of Mantua, Ferrara, Naples, and Urbino that produced an extraordinary amount of great art. The book presents the work created there as the culmination of the desire of princes and dukes wishing to show the world their magnificence as rulers and their virtue as leaders of culture.

• Used

  Paperback
  1995

  $3.25

  This series looks at artists and their work against the background of the social, political and historical world in which they worked, examining issues of race, class, gender and psychology. It covers the Western canon, and also extends to popular imagery and non-Western traditions. This title looks at the art of the Italian Renaissance sourts.