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"Renaissance Art - A Crash Course is a companion to the most significant artistic, cultural - and scientific - period in history. Although historians don't agree about when it started, when it finished, or indeed why it happened at all, one thing they do agree on is that the Renaissance fundamentally changed the way people saw themselves and their place in the world forever. Organized in chronological order, Renaissance Art - A Crash Course shows how different disciplines and areas of achievement in the Renaissance revolution fed off one another
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"Renaissance Art - A Crash Course is a companion to the most significant artistic, cultural - and scientific - period in history. Although historians don't agree about when it started, when it finished, or indeed why it happened at all, one thing they do agree on is that the Renaissance fundamentally changed the way people saw themselves and their place in the world forever. Organized in chronological order, Renaissance Art - A Crash Course shows how different disciplines and areas of achievement in the Renaissance revolution fed off one another and left the greatest artistic legacy of any age. With help from a cast that includes some of the most colorful characters in history Renaissance Art - A Crash Course is an introduction to this unique historical age."--BOOK JACKET.
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Watson-Guptill's humanities-"lite" series (other titles cover architecture, art, fashion, music, photography, and Shakespeare) is brimming with names, dates, garish layouts, and irreverent and low humor, but it is condemnably short on substance. In its drive to entertain, oversimplify, and sensationalize, the "Crash Course" series undermines meaningful appreciation. A comic-book time line ("helps you avoid any art faux pas") runs across the top of the entire book, and the graphics render each page into a multiframe web-inspired explosion of data and visuals. Following a mostly chronological organization, the lower portion of each double-page spread is devoted either to an artist ("Enter the Boss Picasso") or to a movement ("GRRRLs Feminism"). Boxy pop-ups entitled "Inner Circle" ("gives you an idea of who's in and where it's happening at any given moment") and "Outer Fringe" ("artists who aren't part of the most fashionable movement of the day, but out in the sticks pursuing their own agendas") further clutter the landscape. Reproductions are small, colorful, and occasionally sensational. The overall effect is cramped, and the tiny text is subordinate to the illustrations and guidebook-style design. The jack-of-all-trades journalist-authors provide ambiguous art history qualifications (Boyle is "a Renaissance Man himself"; Bell is an English major cum painter). Renaissance Art is the more informative and well-written book, incorporating more history and cultural background. But usage and audience are uncertain, and libraries clearly will be better served by standard art dictionaries or more satisfying examples of the instant-expert genre, including Carol Dunlap's The Culture Vulture: A Guide to Style, Period, and Ism (Wiley, 1994. reprint). Russell T. Clement, Northwestern Univ. Lib., Evanston, IL Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780823045235
  • Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
  • Publication date: 2/1/2001
  • Series: Crash Course Series
  • Pages: 144
  • Product dimensions: 5.18 (w) x 7.31 (h) x 0.65 (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction 8
Angels on a Pinhead: The medieval world view 12
Urban Myths: The city states 14
The Benefits of Bad Government: The emergence of Siena 16
The Big Apple: The free city of Florence 18
Divine Comics: Dante, Boccaccio, and Petrarch 20
Pursed Lips: The arrival of Giotto 22
Opening an Account: The arrival of the Bankers 24
This Wallpaper Is Killing Me: The development of frescos 26
Masters and Servants: The artists' workshops 28
The New Age: History and classicism 30
Disappearing Points: Brunelleschi gets some perspective 32
The Doors: Ghiberti's single-minded career 34
The Furrowed Brow: Donatello's sculpture 36
Man and Superman: The cult of the individual 38
Time and Space: The age of measurement 40
Clumsy Tom: Masaccio 42
Butt Naked: The rise of naturalism 44
Mystery and Mirrors: The Flemish revolution 46
Fancy Friars: Fra Angelico and Fra Filippo Lippi 48
Men about Town: The new architects 50
Men Only: The Renaissance and sex 52
Lovely Linseed: The arrival of oils 54
Blue Skies: The love of landscapes 56
Filthy Rich: The Medicis 58
Getting Things in Proportion: Piero della Francesca 60
Marble Halls: The revival of Rome 62
Underneath the Arches: Bellini 64
Gentlemen of the Press: The rise of printing 66
Flower Power: Botticelli 68
Marble Bodies: The Lombardo family 70
Animal House: Bosch 72
Doges and Damp: The rise of Venice 74
Smoke and Smiles: The great Leonardo da Vinci 76
Simple Sound: The rise of Renaissance music 78
Round and Round: Bramante 80
The Magnificent Man and His Flying Machines: Leonardo's scientific genius 82
Divinely Terrible: Michelangelo 84
Over There: The discovery of America 86
Passion and Poison: The Borgias 88
Clowning Around: The Renaissance theater 90
Funny Money: Pacioli and the new accountants 92
Scratching the Plate: Durer 94
We Can Do It! The High Renaissance 96
A Certain Smile: Mona Lisa 98
Drop Me a Line: Erasmus, More, and the humanists 100
The Charmer: Raphael 102
What Big Hands You Have! Michelangelo's David 104
Priest in Armor: Pope Julius II 106
Gorgeous George: Giorgione 108
When Will You Make an End? The Sistine Chapel ceiling 110
The Grand Tour: The Romanists 112
Philosophical Poses: The Vatican rooms 114
The Big Ego: Machiavelli 116
A Splash of Color: Titian 118
In Your Face: Holbein and the spread of portraiture 120
Here I Stand: Luther and the Reformation 122
Strange and Unusual: Mannerism 124
Scroll Over: Fontainebleau 126
Wobbly Lines: Mercator and maps 128
The World Upside-down: Tintoretto 130
In the Stars: Copernicus 132
Pillars and Posts: Palladio 134
Guru Status: Vasari and the invention of genius 136
The Renaissance Renaissance: How we've used the word since then 138
Glossary 140
Index 142
Picture credits 144
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