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The Art of Florence (2 volumes in slipcase)

Door Glenn M. Andres e.a.

Categorie	Algemeen Kunst
Boeknummer	#389097-MD10
Titel	The Art of Florence (2 volumes in slipcase)
Auteur	Andres, Glenn M. & John M. Hunisak & A. Richard Turner
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	New York/London/Paris : Artabras
Jaar van uitgave	1994
ISBN10	0896601110
ISBN13	9780896601116
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	2 uniform blind stamped and gilt lettered blue cloths, numerous (full page) colour and b/w illustrations, (including photographs), pictorial half cloth slipcase, folio. Heavy set (more then 10 kilo).
Samenvatting	Since the radiant years of the Renaissance, the city of Florence has come for many to represent the greatest triumph of the Western cultural tradition. This is the city where humanism was born, where Plato was discussed passionately in the narrow streets, and where men and women first found themselves to be the measure of all things. For more than three centuries Florence nurtured a creative community of astounding, even revolutionary genius. Here, starting in the late 1200s, Giotto painted the grave and powerful frescoes that drew Florence and the world toward a radical new vision of realism, and here, ushering in the dazzling era of the High Renaissance, Michelangelo began his incomparable career as architect, sculptor, and painter. During the intervening years, Brunelleschi, Donatello, ... (Lees verder)Ghiberti, Fra Angelico, Botticelli, Raphael, Leonardo, and hundreds of the most splendidly talented artists in history lived and worked in this small city on the Arno and collaborated in the creation of the great urban museum we know as Florence. Matching an elegant and sophisticated text by three leading art historians with hundreds of glorious color photographs, The Art of Florence immerses us in a city and a time of unparalleled cultural ferment. This important and uncommonly beautiful publication analyzes the history of Florentine art in terms of the distinctly Florentine and Tuscan influences that shaped it—an approach never before employed in a study of this breadth and complexity. The fascinating and lucid text by Glenn Andres, John Hunisak, and Richard Turner gracefully links Florentine architecture, sculpture, and painting to the rich social fabric and the dramatic political life of the city. Woven into this compelling history is the most luxurious and comprehensive visual documentation available of Florence's unrivaled treasures. More than 700 color images and another 854 duotones and architectural drawings have been reproduced with a meticulous care worthy of the Renaissance craft tradition. Joining visual beauty with intellectual rigor in a fashion that truly invokes the spirit of this great city, The Art of Florence presents as rich a vision of human creativity as we can find anywhere outside Florence itself.
Pagina's	1.312
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 75,00

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