Christiansen, Keith.
Italian painting / Keith Christiansen. - New York, U.S.A : Breaux Arts, c1992. - 320 pages : illustrations [some colored] ;
Includes index.
Contents: 1 Introduction: defining Italian painting -- 2 The heritage of Rome -- 3 The legacy of Constantine -- 4 Visions of heaven -- 5 Sermons in paint -- 6 Painting for the medieval commune -- 7 Courtly taste in the renaissance -- 8 The primacy of drawing in Tuscan painting -- 9 The color of Venice -- 10 Painters of reality -- 11 Art and nature -- 12 The triumph of Rome -- 13 The hard edge of reality -- 14 Stretching space -- 15 Painting as poetry -- 16 Venus, love, and poetry -- 17 Portraits of status -- 18 Dressing up -- 19 A society of men -- 20 The second sex -- 21 Ideal women -- 22 Landscapes of the imagination -- 23 Landscapes of fact -- 24 Arresting time -- 25 The third estate and private pleasures -- 26 Toward a new naturalism -- 27 A manifesto for the future -- 28 Art under fascism -- 29 Modernism and beyond.
English
0883639718 [hardbound]
Pintura Medieval.
Pintura Mural.
Bodegones.
Italian painting / Keith Christiansen. - New York, U.S.A : Breaux Arts, c1992. - 320 pages : illustrations [some colored] ;
Includes index.
Contents: 1 Introduction: defining Italian painting -- 2 The heritage of Rome -- 3 The legacy of Constantine -- 4 Visions of heaven -- 5 Sermons in paint -- 6 Painting for the medieval commune -- 7 Courtly taste in the renaissance -- 8 The primacy of drawing in Tuscan painting -- 9 The color of Venice -- 10 Painters of reality -- 11 Art and nature -- 12 The triumph of Rome -- 13 The hard edge of reality -- 14 Stretching space -- 15 Painting as poetry -- 16 Venus, love, and poetry -- 17 Portraits of status -- 18 Dressing up -- 19 A society of men -- 20 The second sex -- 21 Ideal women -- 22 Landscapes of the imagination -- 23 Landscapes of fact -- 24 Arresting time -- 25 The third estate and private pleasures -- 26 Toward a new naturalism -- 27 A manifesto for the future -- 28 Art under fascism -- 29 Modernism and beyond.
English
0883639718 [hardbound]
Pintura Medieval.
Pintura Mural.
Bodegones.