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- English
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This book gives the necessary background for the study and appreciation of Italian painting and sculpture from about 1250 to 1550. It tells how the artists learned their craft, the organization of their workshops, and the guilds they belonged to; how their customers or patrons treated them and where their work was displayed?churches, civic buildings, or private homes. The book discusses how art was made?tempera, oil, panel, canvas, fresco; it surveys the characteristic types of Renaissance art?altarpieces, portraits, tombs, busts, doors fountains, medals, etc.
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Topic
ArtSubtopic
Art GeneralIndex
Page numbers in boldface denote illustrations.
Alberti, Leon Battista, 25, 27 Plaquette, 26
Altar frontal, 43, 156, 157
Altarpieces, 35, 137
custodial, 143
diptychs, 138, 139
evolution of, 150
polyptych, 143, 145, 147, 148
predella, 146, 147, 148
single panel, 138, 148, 150
triptychs, 139, 142, 143
Altar table, 17, 36, 41, 157
Apprentices, 15, 16, 33, 76, 119
Apprenticeship system, 33, 57
Architects, 15, 114
Arena Chapel, 168
Arriccio, 78, 79, 88, 90, 94
Art
calling vs. trade, 20
change in working methods, 119, 121
commissions for, 52
contemporary vs. renaissance, 30, 31, 33, 34, 137
family life and, 19
function of religious, 35, 37, 38
greatness in, 34
importance of craftsmanship, 32, 33
the Master, 13, 15
as necessity, 18
new attitude toward training, 34
organization of production, 13, 16
as product of several hands, 30, 31
Arte dei Medici e Speziali guild, 20
Art galleries, 51
"Artist," 13
Artists
archives about, 22-25
fame, 30
investments by, 22
legal contracts and agreements, 52, 54, 55
numbers of, 18
payment to, 55
rank in society, 19, 22, 23, 28
tax returns, 22, 23
travel by, 21, 22
training, 30-34
Artists' guilds, 20, 21
Artists' shops, 13, 15, 16, 18, 19, 33, 57, 137
Artists' writings, 25, 27, 28
Auction lists, 25
Avant-garde, 31
Bach, Johann Sebastian, 19
Banco, Nanni di, Base of the Four Crowned Saints (detail), 123
Banners, painted, 156
Baptismal font, 189, 191, 192
Baptistry, 188, 189
Barbarians, 1
Bartolo, Taddeo di, and others, Chapel, Siena, 177
Beccafumi, Part of a Painted Bed (?), 161
Bicci di Lorenzo, 21
Altarpiece, 58
Madonna with Four Saints, 82, 83
Nativity, 148
Bicci, Neri di, 21, 24
Bierhead, 153, 156
Black Death of 1348, 173
Bole, 65
Bologna, Giovanni, Sketch-model of a Riv...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- I. The Artist in Society
- II. The Materials of Renaissance Art
- III. The Types of Renaissance Art
- Notes
- Illustrations
- Index