The Renaissance: European Painting, 1400-1600 by Charles McCorquodale

The Renaissance period was one of the most exciting and innovative in Western art, and has never failed to stimulate the imagination with its remarkable wealth of talent. Many of the greatest artists in Western painting lived during this period - Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, Titian, Van Eyck, Dürer and Holbein. In this comprehensive and stimulating new study, the first of its kind and scope for some time, Charles McCorquodale presents a panorama of the whole period in painting, covering the major European countries affected by new ideas. Although the Renaissance in painting first evolved in fifteenth-century Florence, its roots lie in Italian developments of the late thirteenth and fourteenth centuries in the work of Giotto and his contemporaries. A chapter provides the complete background to these early developments which were to lead painting away from medieval concepts, and relates them to the features which were later to distinguish the great early Renaissance work of Masaccio, Fra Angelico and their contemporaries.

Publisher:	Studio Editions
Year:	1994
Binding:	Hardback
ISBN:	9781858918921
Condition:	Very Good
Description:	Heavy; Large; DJ. Very heavy and large, additional postage will be required.

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SKU: 1598728
Location: Art