Concepts of Beauty in Renaissance Art
Published on 28. October 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
258 pages
978-0-7546-0061-9 (ISBN)
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-7546-0061-9 (9780754600619)
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Content
The biographical basis of Renaissance aesthetics, John Onians; the perception of beauty in landscape in the quattrocento, Alison Cole; "condecenti et netti" - beauty, dress and gender in Italian Renaissance art, Jane Bridgeman; Giovanni Sabadino degli Arienti and a practical definition of magnificence in the context of Renaisssance architecture, Rupert Shepherd; beauty as an aesthetic and artistic ideal in late 15th-century Florence, David Hemsolt; defining the beautiful in early Renaissance Germany, Andrew Morrall; the artist as beauty, Mary Rogers; "la piu bella e melio lavarata opera" - beauty and good design in Italian Renaissance architecture, Georgia Clarke; poetry in motion - beauty in movement and the Renaissance conception of leggiadria, Sharon Fermor; resplendent vessels - Parmigianino at work in the Steccata, Mary Vaccaro; Michalangelo's Christian neoplatonic aesthetic of beauty in his early ouevre - the nuditas virtualis image, Joanne Snow-Smith; Venetian glass and Renaissance self-fashioning, Paul Hills; Vasari's interpretation of female beauty, Liana de Girolami Cheney; the notion of beauty in Francesco Bocchi's "Bellezze della citta di Fiorenza" I, Thomas Frangenberg; the notion of beauty in Francesco Bocchi's "Bellezze della citta di Fiorenza" II, Robert Williams.