Perspectives On Western Art

Source Documents And Readings From The Renaissance To The 1970s

Linnea Wren

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN: 9780367094874
• eBook ISBN: 9780429978005
• Topic: Art
• Subtopic: Art General

This anthology of readings related to Western art history explains specific works of art illustrated in Janson's History of Art and De la Croix and Tansey's Gardner's Art Through the Ages in terms of the ideas, beliefs, and concerns of the people and cultures who created the art. It brings a new understanding of art because it shows the social and cultural basis of major works of art through history. The ten sections are Ancient Near East; Egyptian; Aegean; Greek; Etruscan; Roman; early Christian, Byzantine, and Islamic; early Medieval; Romanesque; and Gothic. The readings have been drawn from many areas of intellectual and social history, including religion, philosophy, literature, science, economics, and law. Each selection is preceded by an introductory note, which discusses the readings in terms of its subject and theme, its source and usage, and its relevance to the study of the work of art.

Index

small capitals INDICATE AUTHORS OF READINGS IN THE TEXT

Abbott, Gilbert, 271

Absolutism, Age of, 132–33

Abstract art, 317, 330, 373, 401

Act of Supremacy: “The Supreme Head of the Church of England” (British Parliament), 110, 112

Adventures of Telemachus (Fénelon), 187–88, 188–90

Africa

European colonization and crisis of identity, 289–90

and Russian Revolution, 315

slave trade, 233–35

African-Americans

discrimination in 1960s, 405–6

writers and artists, 400–401

The African Slave Trade and Its Remedy (Buxton), 234–36

Against the Rapacious and Murdering Peasants (Luther), 107, 108–9

Agrarian poor, 340

ALBERTI, LEON BATTISTA, 23–24

On the Family

“Conditions of Marriage,” 27–28

”Virtù Has Its Own Reward,” 25–27

Palazzo Rucellai, Florence, 24

Albizzi, Rinaldo degli, 12–13

Alcoholism, 263–64

Aldrin, Edwin E., 392

Alexander VI, Pope, 38, 53, 69

Alfonso XIII, King of Spain, 350

Ali Pasha, 240, 240n

Alienation, 366

All Quiet on the Western Front (Remarque), 311, 312, 313–15

All Saints Eve (Halloween), 266

Altarpieces:

Ghent, by Hubert and Jan van Eyck, 87, 88

Isenheim, by Grünewald, 106–7

Madonna in a Rose Garden, by Lochner, 82

Portinari, by Hugo van der Goes, 90, 91

Ambrogini, Angelo (Poliziano), 46–48

American Revolution, 210

Anabaptists, 162–63

Anarchism, 248, 304

Anatomical Observations (Leonardo da Vinci), 44, 45–46

Anatomy, human, 45–46, 57–58, 59–61

Anesthesia, 271–72

Anne of Austria, Queen of France, 133

ANTHONY, SUSAN BROWNELL

Trial Transcript: “This High-Handed Outrage upon My Citizen’s Rights,” 276–77, 279–81

Anti-Semitism, 347

An Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery (Lister), 271, 272, 274–75

Antiseptics, 271–75

Antwerp, 152–5...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Preface
• I: Italian Renaissance Art of the Early Fifteenth Century
• II: Sixteenth-Century Italian Art
• III: Fifteenth-Century Northern European Art
• IV: Sixteenth-Century Northern European Art
• V: Baroque Art in Italy, France, and England
• VI: Baroque Art in the Netherlands and Spain
• VII: Eighteenth-Century Art
• VIII: Nineteenth-Century Art
• IX: Early Twentieth-Century Art
• X: Later Twentieth-Century Art
• Bibliography
• Index