This book seeks to broaden the comprehension of the student of Italian Renaissance painting by concentrating not on the works of art themselves, but on the various artistic theories which influenced them or were expressed by them.
Taking Alberti's treatises as his starting-point, Anthony Blunt traces the development of artistic theory from Humanism to Mannerism. He discusses the writings of Leonardo, Savonarola, Michelangelo, and Vasari, examines the effect of the Council of Trent on religious art, and chronicles the successful struggle of the painters and sculptors themselves to elevate their status from craftsmen to creative artists.
- ISBN10 0198171064
- ISBN13 9780198171065
- Publish Date December 1956
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 4 December 1992
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Oxford University Press
- Edition New edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 176
- Language English