Art in Renaissance Italy / John T. Paoletti, Gary M. Radke.
Imprint
London : Laurence King, c2005
Edition
3rd ed.
Descript
576 p. : ill. ; 28 cm
CONTENT
The late Thirteenth and the Fourteenth century : The origins of the Renaissance ; Rome: artists, Popes, and Cardinals ; Assisi and Padua: narrative realism ; Florence : traditions and innovations ; Siena: city of the virgin ; Naples : Art for a royal kingdom ; Venice : the most serene republic ; Pisa and Florence : morality and judgment ; Visconti Milan and Carrara Padua -- The Fifteenth century ; Florence : commune and guild ; The Medici and political propaganda ; Rome : re-establishing Papal power ; Venice : affirming the past and present ; Courtly art : the Gothic and Classic ; Sforza Milan -- The first half of the sixteenth century : Lombardy : instability and religious fervor ; Florence : the renewed republic ; Rome : Julius II, Leo X, and Clement VII ; Mantua, Parma, and Genoa : the arts at court -- Florence : Mannerism and the Medici ; Venice : vision and monumentality -- The later sixteenth century : The Rome of Paul III ; The demands of the Council of Trent ; Northern Italy : reform and innovation ; Rome : a European capital city