A New History of Italian Renaissance Art

Stephen J. Campbell, Michael W. Cole

• Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd
• Year: 2019
• eBook ISBN: 9780500774939
• Edition: 2
• Topic: Art
• Subtopic: History of Renaissance Art

Campbell and Cole, respected teachers and active researchers, draw on traditional and current scholarship to present complex interpretations in this new edition of their engaging account of Italian Renaissance art. The books unique decade-by-decade structure is easy to follow, and permits the authors to tell the story of art not only in the great centres of Rome, Florence and Venice, but also in a range of other cities and sites throughout Italy, including more in this edition from Naples, Padua and Palermo. This approach allows the artworks to take centre-stage, in contrast to the books competitors, which are organized by location or by artist. Other updates for this edition include an expanded first chapter on the Trecento, and a new Techniques and Materials appendix that explains and illustrates all of the major art-making processes of the period. Richly illustrated with high-quality reproductions and new photography of recent restorations, it presents the classic canon of Renaissance painting and sculpture in full, while expanding the scope of conventional surveys by offering a more thorough coverage of architecture, decorative and domestic arts, and print media.

Table of contents

• Introduction
• 1 1300–1400 The Trecento Inheritance
• 2 1400–1410 The Cathedral and the City
• 3 1410–1420 Commissioning Art: Standardization, Customization, Emulation
• 4 1420–1430 Perspective and Its Discontents
• 5 1430–1440 Practice and Theory
• 6 1440–1450 Palace and Church
• 7 1450–1460 Rome and Other Romes
• 8 1460–1470 Courtly Values
• 9 1470–1480 What Is Naturalism?
• 10 1480–1490 Migration and Mobility
• 11 1490–1500 The Allure of the Secular
• 12 1500–1510 Human Nature
• 13 1510–1520 The Workshop and the “School”
• 14 1520–1530 The Loss of the Center
• 15 1530–1540 Dynasty and Myth
• 16 1540–1550 Literate Art
• 17 1550–1560 Disegno/Colore
• 18 1560–1570 Decorum, Order, and Reform
• 19 1570–1580 Art, the People, and the Counter-Reformation Church
• 20 1580–1590 A Sense of Place
• 21 1590–1600 The Persistence of Art
• Italian Renaissance Materials and Techniques
• Chronology of Rule 1400–1600: Key Centers
• Glossary
• Bibliographical Notes and Suggestions for Further Reading
• Sources of Quotations
• Picture Credits
• Index