284 Pages
by
Routledge
284 Pages
by
Routledge
284 Pages
by
Routledge
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During the later 15th and in the 16th centuries pictures began to be made without action, without place for heroism, pictures more rueful than celebratory. In part, Renaissance art adjusted to the social and economic pressures with an art we may be hard pressed to recognize under that same rubric-an art not so much of perfected nature as simply artless. Granted, the heroic and epic mode of the... Read more
Introduction * Beyond Istoria * Picturing Pastoral * Inverting Low and High * Postscript * Bibliography * Index
Biography
PATRICIA EMISON
"[It] considerably enriches our knowledge of Renaissance visual culture." -- Print Quarterly
"...interesting and erudite study...Satisfactory black-and-white illustrations and a good bibliography. Upper-division undergraduate; graduate; faculty." -- Choice
"Throughout, Emison enhances her engaging premise, informed by an elucidation of political and economic undercurrents, through an appealing and eloquent writing style." -- On Paper
"College-level students of Renaissance art history will appreciate this in-depth review of style in Italian Renaissance art...intriguing survey." -- Bookwatch
