Portrait in the Renaissance - Couverture souple

Pope-Hennessy, John Wyndham

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0691018251 ISBN 13 : 9780691018256

Editeur : Princeton University Press, 1979

Synopsis

A major account of Renaissance portraiture by one of the twentieth century’s most eminent art historians

The Portrait in the Renaissance provides an unprecedented look at two centuries of experiment in portraiture during the Renaissance. In this compelling book, John Pope-Hennessy shows how the Renaissance cult of individuality brought with it a demand that the features of the individual be perpetuated. This concept was first manifested in the portraits that fill the great Florentine fresco cycles and led, later in the fifteenth century, to the creation of the independent portrait by such artists as Botticelli, Antonio Pollaiuolo, Giovanni Bellini, and Antonello da Messina. Pope-Hennessy goes on to describe the process by which Titian and the great artists of the High Renaissance transformed the portrait from a record of appearance into an analysis of character.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

John Pope-Hennessy (1913–1994) was consultative chairman of the Department of European Paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and professor of fine arts at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Princeton University Press
• Date d'édition: 1979
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0691018251
• ISBN 13: 9780691018256
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 382
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