Full Description
"Italian Art of the 15th Century" aims to remap the rich terrain of the Renaissance through a critical juxtaposition of new and historical writing on the art of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Setting contributions to dominant themes and current scholarship, including gender studies, material culture and patronage, against the concerns of the older, 'classic' literature, this exciting anthology clarifies both the limitations and values of received analytical structures and suggests new avenues of inquiry. Thematic and reflexive, "Italian Art of the 15th Century" interrogates one of the most fertile periods in art history as a cultural phenomenon - taking Italy as its geographical starting point and opening out to a consideration of themes on the international stage.
Contents
List of Illustrations Series Editor's Preface Acknowledgements Acknowledgements of Sources Note to the reader Abbreviations Introduction Robert Maniura, Gabriele Neher and Rupert Shepherd Part I Writing and the Revival of Antiquity Introduction Rupert Shepherd 1. Italian Art and International Astrology in the Palazzo Schifanoia, Ferrara Aby Warburg 2. Rinascimento dell'Antichita: The Fifteenth Century, from Renaissance and Renascences in Western Art Erwin Panofsky 3. Guarino, Pisanello and Manuel Chrysoloras Michael Baxandall 4. Quattrocento Architecture and the Antique: Some Problems Howard Burns 5. The Last Judgement of Renaissance Architecture John Onians 6. What Venus did with Mars: Battista Fiera and Mantegna's 'Parnassus' Roger Jones 7. Pictura and Scriptura: Cosme Tura and Style as Courtly Performance' Stephen J. Campbell 8. 'A Library Languished in Squalor': Whatever Happened to Rome's Low Renaissance? Carol Richardson Part II Self-fashioning and Identity Introduction Gabriele Neher 9. Leonardo's Method for Working Out Compositions E.H. Gombrich 10. On the Sources and Meaning of the Renaissance Portrait Bust Irving Lavin 11. Cosimo de' Medici's Patronage of Architecture and the Theory of Magnificence A.D. Fraser Jenkins 12. Painting for Pleasure. Some Lost Fifteenth-Century Decorations of Northern Italy Andrew Martindale 13. Painting and History in Renaissance Venice Patricia Fortini Brown 14. The Court Lady's Dilemma: Isabella d'Este and Art Collecting in the Renaissance Rose Marie San Juan 15. New, Old and Second-Hand Culture: The Case of the Renaissance Sleeve Evelyn Welch 16. Venice, the Bazaar of Europe Deborah Howard Part III Sacred and Secular Introduction Robert Maniura 17. Fra Angelico at San Marco: Art and the Liturgy of Cloistered Life William Hood 18. Cosimo de' Medici and San Lorenzo Caroline Elam 19. Florentine Religious Experience: The Sacred Image Richard C. Trexler 20. Imaginative Conceptions in Renaissance Italy Jacqueline Marie Musacchio 21. Extracts from The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and Modern Oblivion Leo Steinberg 22. Jan van Eyck and the Italians Roberto Weiss 23. The Economic and Social World of Italian Renaissance Maiolica Richard A. Goldthwaite Index
