Hardback
710 (522 in colour) illustrations
576 pages
292 x 220 mm
ISBN 978 1 85669 818 4
$0.00
Published July 2011
Contents
Preface 10
Introduction: Art in Context 12
Part I: The Late Thirteenth and the Fourteenth Century 47
1 The Origins of the Renaissance 48
2 Rome: Artists, Popes, and Cardinals 56
3 Assisi and Padua: Narrative Realism 67
4 Florence: Traditions and Innovations 77
5 Siena: City of the Virgin 99
6 Naples: Art for a Royal Kingdom 124
7 Venice: The Most Serene Republic 135
8 Pisa and Florence: Social Upheaval 150
9 Visconti Milan and Carrara Padua 174
Part II: The Fifteenth Century 203
10 Florence: Commune and Guild 204
11 Florence: The Medici and Political Propaganda 251
12 Rome: Re-establishing Papal Power 289
13 Venice: Affirming the Past and Present 313
14 Courtly Art: The Gothic and Classic 336
Part III: The First Half of the Sixteenth Century 377
15 Sforza Milan: Ducal Splendor 362
16 Florence: The Renewed Republic 387
17 Rome: Julius II, Leo X, and Clement VII 397
18 Florence: Mannerism and the Medici 437
19 Mantua, Parma, and Genoa: The Arts at Court 425
20 Venice: Vision and Monumentality 464
Part IV: The Later Sixteenth Century 499
21 The Rome of Paul III 500
22 The Council of Trent and Innovations in Northern Italian Art 527
23 Florence under Cosimo I
24 Rome: A European Capital
Genealogies 548
List of Popes 553
List of Venetian Doges 553
Time Chart 554
Glossary 556
Bibliography 558
Literary Credits, Picture Credits 566
Index 567
Reviews Post Comments Books by the same author
With a freshness and breadth of approach that sets the art in its context, this book explores why works were created and who commissioned the palaces, cathedrals, paintings, and sculptures. It covers Rome and Florence, Venice and the Veneto, Assisi, Siena, Milan, Pavia, Genoa, Padua, Mantua, Verona, Ferrara, Urbino, and Naples. Chapters are grouped into four chronological parts, allowing for a sustained examination of individual cities in different periods.
"Contemporary Scene" boxes provide fascinating glimpses of daily life and "Contemporary Voice" boxes quote from painters and writers of the time. Innovative and scholarly, yet accessible and beautifully presented, this book is a definitive work on the Italian Renaissance.
This revised edition contains around 200 new pictures and nearly all colour images. The chapter structure has also been improved for yet greater geographic and chronological clarity, and a new page size makes the volume more user-friendly.
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John T. Paoletti is Professor Emeritus of the History of Art. He has published widely on the patronage of the Medici family in Florence and on Michelangelo.
Gary M. Radke is a Renaissance specialist at Syracuse University and a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome.
Art in Renaissance Italy, 4th edition (paperback)
With a freshness and breadth of approach that sets the art in its context, this book explores why works were created and who commissioned the palaces, cathedrals, paintings, and sculptures.
Art in Renaissance Italy (3rd edition)
A definitive and beautifully presented work on the Italian Renaissance, both scholarly and accessible, and giving a fascinating insight into the individual cities.
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