The Altarpiece in the Renaissance
Published on 25. January 1991
Book
Hardback
287 pages
978-0-521-36061-6 (ISBN)
Description
An examination of the altarpiece as an artistic type or genre within the period 1400-1600 which coincides with a general reassessment of Renaissance art. Half of the essays in this volume relate to Italy, the rest address Dutch German and Spanish altarpieces.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 276 mm
Width: 219 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
1140 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-36061-6 (9780521360616)
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Content
Indroduction - the altarpiece in the Renaissance: a taxonomic approach MARTIN KEMP 1. Some thoughts on writing a history of Sienese altarpieces H. W. VAN OS 2. The Renaissance altarpiece: a valid category? PAUL HILLS 3. The northern altarpiece as a cultural document CRAIG HARBISON 4. The Netherlandish carved altarpiece c.1500; type and function KIM WOODS 5. Reform within the cult image: the German winged altarpiece before the Reformation BERNHARD DECKER 6. Appropriation and application: the significance of the sources of Michael Pacher's altarpieces MARK EVANS 7. Fra Bartolomeo's Carondelet altarpiece and the theme of the "Virgo in nubibus" in the High Renaissance ANDRE CHASTEL 8. "Divinita di cosa dipinta": pictorial structure and the legibility of the altarpiece DAVID ROSAND 9. From cult images to the cult of images: the case of Raphael's altarpieces SYLVIA FERINO 10. Co-ordinated altarpieces in Renaissance Venice: the progress of an ideal PETER HUMFREY 11. The relationship of El Greco's altarpieces to the mass of the Roman rite DAVID DAVIES 12. The altarpiece in Catholic Europe: post-Tridentine transformations A. D. WRIGHT