An examination of the altarpiece as an artistic type or genre within the period 1400-1600 which coincides with a general reassessment of Renaissance art. Half of the essays in this volume relate to Italy, the rest address Dutch German and Spanish altarpieces.
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An examination of the altarpiece as an artistic type or genre within the period 1400-1600 which coincides with a general reassessment of Renaissance art. Half of the essays in this volume relate to Italy, the rest address Dutch German and Spanish altarpieces.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 1250grams, ISBN: 9780521360616.
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VG-/VG-(Ex-library with stamps and labels on spine, inside front and rear covers, ffep and block. ) Orange, color-illustrated dustjacket over orangish cloth, gilt lettering. Mylar cover; xiv, 273 pp. 1 color, 149+ bw plates. Contents as follows: Some thoughts on writing a history of Sienese altarpieces / H.W. van Os--The Renaissance altarpiece: a valid category? / Paul Hills--The northern altarpiece as a cultural document / Craig Harbison--The Netherlandish carved altarpiece c. 1500: type and function / Kim Woods--Reform within the cult image: the German winged altarpiece before the Reformation / Bernhard Decker--Appropriation and application: the significance of the sources of Michael Pacher's altarpieces / Mark Evans--Fra Bartolomeo's Carondelet altarpiece and the theme of the "Virgo in nubibus" in the High Renaissance / André Chastel--"Divinità di cosa dipinta": pictorial structure and the legibility of the altarpiece / David Rosand.; From cult images to the cult of images: the case of Raphael's altarpieces / Sylvia Ferino Pagden--Co-ordinated altarpieces in Renaissance Venice: the progress of an ideal / Peter Humfrey--The relationship of El Greco's altarpieces to the mass of the Roman rite / David Davies--The altarpiece in Catholic Europe: post-Tridentine transformations / A.D. Wright.
