Renaissance art : a very short introduction /
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Author / Creator: | Johnson, Geraldine A. |
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Imprint: | Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2005. |
Description: | 1 online resource (157 pages) : illustrations, portraits |
Language: | English |
Series: | Very short introductions Very short introductions. |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11151430 |
Table of Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgements; List of illustrations; 1 Introduction: whose Renaissance? whose art?; 2 The art of the altarpiece; 3 Story-telling in Renaissance art; 4 The challenge of nature and the antique; 5 Portraiture and the rise of 'Renaissance man'; 6 Did women have a Renaissance?; 7 Objects and images for the domestic sphere; 8 The story of a square: art and urbanism in Florence; 9 Michelangelo: the birth of the artist and of art history; References; Further reading; Glossary; Index.