The High Renaissance: Italian Painting [VINTAGE 1963] [THE COLOR SLIDE BOOKS OF THE WORLD'S ART SERIES] [INCLUDES 24 COLOR SLIDES]

Borea, Evelina

Verlag: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., New York, 1963

Beschreibung

Very good condition marbled green boards, black spine and gold spine lettering. Includes Commentary on Color Slides. Illustrated with black-and-white Renaissance Italian Paintings and 24 fine condition color slides, 12 of which are contained within fine condition clear plastic color slide holders affixed to the inner front double board and 12 more color slides also contained within fine condition clear plastic color slide holders affixed to the inner rear double board. "The term "Italian High Renaissance" is used to describe the final expression in the plastic arts of those ideals first developed during the "early Renaissance" in the fifteenth century in Florence in the architecture of Brunelleschi and Alberti, in the painting of Masaccio, Fra Angelico, and Piero della Francesca, and in the sculpture of Donatello and Luca della Robbia. These earlier ideals consisted - as they had for the ancient Greeks and Romans - in the conception of a world whose center was man, and they were expressed fundamentally through the representation of a naturalistic space, bright and serene, which was related to man by the science of perspective. At first the chief concern had been the relationship between man and natural space, a relationship regulated simply by perspective - such was the art of Brunelleschi and Masaccio. Later the coordinating and unifying element of the represented world became light, which was expressed by serene colors. The represented world, dominated always by terrestrial man, also included landscape, sky, and architectural representations. Such was the vast and luminous world of Piero della Fancesca. It was the sculptor Donatello who discovered the individual man in his physical and moral physiognomy - man in an often hostile world, as a hero in action, strong and beautiful but physically suseptible of corruption and death. Alongside Donatello's view, which dominated the figurative arts in the second half of the fifteenth century, there reappeared another aspiration nurtured by the general interest of the time in ancient art, which was being recreated, on the basis of books and fragments of sarcophagi and statues, in its most idyllic aspects. The new aspiration, in literature as well as the plastic arts, tried to ignore the reality of daily life in order to recreate quiet olympi where man could cultivate undisturbed in his own intellectual and imaginative qualities. Thus while Luca della Robbia created his placid Madonnas - images of a calm achieved in the perfect balance of sentiment and intellect - Sandro Botticelli expressed a fragile and abstract beauty, melancholically aware of the morality of things." - excerpt from the beginning chapter.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 010451

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: The High Renaissance: Italian Painting [VINTAGE 1963] [THE COLOR SLIDE BOOKS OF THE WORLD'S ART SERIES] [INCLUDES 24 COLOR SLIDES]
• Verlag: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., New York
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1963
• Sprache: Englisch
• Einband: Hardcover
• Zustand: Very Good