Concepts of Beauty in Renaissance Art

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Agnolo Firenzuola
Andrea Del Sarto
Anton Doni
Antonio De Beatis
art theory
Belvedere Torso
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Figura Serpentinata
gender in art
German Renaissance classicism
Giovanni Sabadino Degli Arienti
Italian court culture
Italian Renaissance art
Maria Della Steccata
Murano Glass
Natural Beauty
Neoplatonism
Palazzo Dei Diamanti
Palazzo Schifanoia
Parmigianino's Madonna
Parmigianino’s Madonna
Pendant Painting
perception of beauty in art history
Perino Del Vaga
Rebellious Captive
Renaissance aesthetics
Renaissance Architectural Treatises
Sabadino Degli Arienti
Soft Figures
Spinello Aretino
Venetian Glass
Vice Versa
visual perception
woman's beauty
Young Men

Product details

  • ISBN 9781138611276
  • Weight: 670g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 10 Aug 2018
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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In this Volume, published in1998, Fifteen scholars reveal the ways of preserving, conceiving and creating beauty were as diverse as the cultural influenced at work at the time, deriving from antique, medieval and more recent literature and philosophy, and from contemporary notions of morality and courtly behaviour. Approaches include discussion of contemporary critical terms and how these determined writers’ appreciation of paintings, sculpture, architecture and costume; studies of the quest to create beauty in the work of artists such as Botticeli, Leonardo, Raphael, Parmigianino and Vasari; and the investigation of changes functioning of the eye and brain, or to technical innovations like those found in Venetian glass.

Francis Ames-Lewis, Mary Rogers