
Viewing Renaissance Art
Yale University Press
Published on 24. May 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
352 pages
978-0-300-12343-2 (ISBN)
Description
This book focuses on the values, priorities, and motives of patrons and the purposes and functions of art works produced north and south of the Alps and in post-Byzantine Crete. It begins by considering the social range and character of Renaissance patronage and ends with a study of Hans Holbein the Younger and the reform of religious images in Basle and England.
Viewing Renaissance Art considers a wide range of audiences and patrons from the rulers of France to the poorest confraternities in Florence. The overriding premise is that art was not a neutral matter of stylistic taste but an aspect of material production in which values were invested-whether religious, cultural, social, or political.
Viewing Renaissance Art considers a wide range of audiences and patrons from the rulers of France to the poorest confraternities in Florence. The overriding premise is that art was not a neutral matter of stylistic taste but an aspect of material production in which values were invested-whether religious, cultural, social, or political.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
200 color illus.
Dimensions
Height: 286 mm
Width: 216 mm
Weight
1270 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-300-12343-2 (9780300123432)
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Persons
Kim W. Woods, Carol M. Richardson, and Angeliki Lymberopoulou are lecturers, Art History Department, The Open University.