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 book's 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 book's 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.
By:
Stephen J. Campbell,
Michael W. Cole
Imprint: Thames & Hudson
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Dimensions:
Height: 276mm,
Width: 225mm,
Weight: 3.230kg
ISBN: 9780500239759
ISBN 10: 0500239754
Pages: 712
Publication Date: 01 January 2018
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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 * Italian Renaissance Materials and Techniques * Chronology of Rule 1400-1600: Key Centers * Glossary * Bibliographical Notes and Suggestions for Further Reading * Sources of Quotations
Reviews for A New History of Italian Renaissance Art
'Splendid … Campbell and Cole have written an enlightened book that can be read with profit by advanced beginners as well as seasoned professionals' - The Art Newspaper 'To read it is an education in itself … this is an informed, enlightened and useful book' - The Irish Times 'Dazzlingly ambitious and formidably intelligent, this is very much a book of today, which seems destined to remain the survey of choice for years to come' - David Ekserdjian, Leicester University, UK 'Elegant and comprehensive … magnificent' - Minerva
