As you make your way through "The Renaissance of Imagination", you'll have the opportunity to explore works by artists from Donatello to Botticelli that span Florence's greatest century of art. But you won't find the usual discussions about the dating of particular works, or why a certain painting is considered "important" in the evolution of Western art, or how much was done by the master and how much by his workshop, or who influenced whom. Instead you'll have the opportunity to contemplate these masterpieces of Florentine art in ways that enable you to appreciate their beauty, depth and brilliance more fully. The facts of history, iconography and biography are fully respected, but it is the works of art themselves that are here given the final word. If the Italian Renaissance has ever captured your interest and fired your imagination, this book has been written for you. (59 Full-color Images)
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Introduction 8
Table of Figures 13
Openings: Art Therapy in Renaissance Florence 17
Quattro Santi Coronati: The Mission Statement of the Sculptors Guild 29
Donatello's St. George: Man and Superman 37
The Brancacci Chapel: Many Hands at Work 47
Gentile da Fabriano's Adoration of the Magi 62
David's Penis 73
Annunciations 83
Fra Angelico: Three Stages of Annunciation 88
Fra Filippo Lippi: The Monk and the Madonna 101
Piero's Pregnant Madonna 121
Botticelli's Primavera 129
Botticelli's Birth of Venus 135
Botticelli's Annunciation 139
Appendices 143
Image Work: Art History vs. Art Appreciation 144
Further Notes on Image Work 147
Imaginal Dialogue 153
Transcript of the Trinità Dialogue 160
Bibliography 163
