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A Short History of Italian Painting

A Short History of Italian Painting

Van Vechten Brown, Alice

Paperback

Art HistoryEuropean ArtGeneral World History

ISBN10: 9353608848
ISBN13: 9789353608842
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Apr 15 2019
Pages: 500
Weight: 1.39
Height: 1.11 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Step inside the story of how Italian painting taught Europe to see. Italian painting reshaped the West. In A Short History of Italian Painting, Alice Van Vechten Brown leads readers from shimmering medieval altarpieces to the living bodies and luminous skies of the Renaissance and beyond, mapping how faith, humanism and science transformed the painted image. Written for the non-specialist yet grounded in scholarship, it serves equally well as an italian art history book for the curious reader and as a clear history of painting textbook for students. Core developments in medieval to renaissance art, the rise of the florentine and venetian schools, and the flowering of early modern italian art are explained with rare economy and grace. First published in the early twentieth century, Brown's concise synthesis became a classic art history reference, prized by museum-goers and lecturers alike as a lucid renaissance italian painting survey and a dependable art history students guide. Standing between Vasari Lives of Artists and modern overviews such as Gardner Art Through Ages, it distils the essential movements of renaissance Italy art history into vivid, memorable chapters that still support any introductory art history course. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike.

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