The Secret Language of the Renaissance: Decoding the Hidden Symbolism of Italian Art

Stemp, Richard

ISBN 10: 1844833224 / ISBN 13: 9781844833221

Edité par Duncan Baird Publishers, London, 2006

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4to, 224 pp.

N° de réf. du vendeur 051800

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The Secret Language of the Renaissance: Decoding the Hidden Symbolism of Italian Art
• Éditeur: Duncan Baird Publishers, London
• Date de parution: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1844833224
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781844833221
• Reliure: hardcover
• Illustrateur: Profusely illustrated
• Édition: 1st.
• État de l'article: Fine copy in fine dust jacket
• État de la jaquette: Jaquette
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Art

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Synopsis

Book by Stemp Richard

Présentation de l'éditeur

Gives modern viewers an illustrated key to unlock the mysteries of paintings, sculpture and architecture by the great Italian masters, and provides fresh insight into the currents of Renaissance thought, from humanism to myticism to religion reform.

We may never know what the Mona Lisa is really smiling about, but we do know that there's much ore to the masterpieces of Renaissance art than the beauty that meets the eye. There are layers of significance below the surface of Leonardo da Vinci, Fr Angelico, Donatello Michelangelo and many others. This magnificently illustrated guide by an expert art historian gives you the key to unlock those secrets for yourself. 

Split into three parts, Part One is the vivid immersion in the culture of this remarkable period, tracing the profusion of innovations in literature, painting, sculpture and the decorative arts that date to this time.  Part Two offers a wide-ranging guide to the essential elements of symbolic language in Renaissance art, including colour, geometry, light and shade, proportion, perspective and body language. In Part Three, the heart of the book, Richard Stemp analyzes more than 40 works grouped around a dozen themes, including Mythology, War and Peace, and Death and Eternity.  Each work is shows in full colour and each is then taken apart to reveal the symbols it contains and to interpret their enigmatic meaning.