Inventions of the Studio, Renaissance to Romanticism

• Paperback | Bettie Allison Rand Lectures in Art History
• Looks at the Renaissance origins of the studio, at the possibilities that emerged for visualizing it in the late 16th and 17th centuries, and at its r... Lees meer

Victims and Villains in Vasari's Lives

Andrew Ladis

• Hardcover | Bettie Allison Rand Lectures in Art History
• Giorgio Vasari's ""The Lives of the Artists"" (1550, 1568) has been a key subject of study for students of the Italian Renaissance. Focusing on Vasari... Lees meer

Painterly Enlightenment

Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann

• Hardcover | Bettie Allison Rand Lectures in Art History
• A thorough foundation for the fresh recognition of one of the great painters of eighteenth-century Europe, a leading fresco painter who is a colorist ... Lees meer

Myths of Venice

David Rosand

• Paperback | Engels | Bettie Allison Rand Lectures in Art History
• Over the course of several centuries, Venice fashioned and refined a portrait of itself that responded to and exploited historical circumstance. Never... Lees meer

Inventing the Renaissance Putto

Charles Dempsey

• Hardcover | Bettie Allison Rand Lectures in Art History
• The putto (often portrayed as a mischievous baby) appears frequently in the art and literature of Renaissance Italy. The ""spiritelli"" embody a minor... Lees meer

Inventing the Renaissance Putto

Charles Dempsey

• Paperback | Engels | Bettie Allison Rand Lectures in Art History
• The figure of the putto (often portrayed as a mischievous baby) made frequent appearances in the art and literature of Renaissance Italy. Commonly cal... Lees meer

The Intelligence of Art

Thomas Crow

• Paperback | Bettie Allison Rand Lectures in Art History
• With this volume, the author contributes an analysis of the present state of art history, the practice of interpreting art and making it ""intelligibl... Lees meer

Painterly Enlightenment

Thomas Dacosta Kaufmann

• Paperback | Engels | Bettie Allison Rand Lectures in Art History
• Franz Anton Maulbertsch (1724-1796) was an Austrian fresco painter known for his bold use of color. Although he has been recognized in the Central Eur... Lees meer

Cultural Contact and the Making of European Art since the Age of Exploration

• Paperback | Bettie Allison Rand Lectures in Art History
• Art historians have long been accustomed to thinking about art and artists in terms of national traditions. This volume takes a different approach, su... Lees meer

Victims and Villains in Vasari's Lives

Andrew Ladis

• Paperback | Bettie Allison Rand Lectures in Art History
• Giorgio Vasari's The Lives of the Artists (1550, 1568) has been a key subject of study for students of the Italian Renaissance over the hundreds of ye... Lees meer