Artistic theory in Italy : 1450-1600 / Anthony Blunt..

By: Blunt, Anthony, 1907-1983.

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BookSeries: Oxford paperbacks.Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1962Description: viii, 170 p., 12 leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.ISBN: 0198810504.Subject(s): Aesthetics

| Art, Italian

| Art, Renaissance -- Italy

| Painting, Italian

DDC classification: 759.5

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
General Lending	MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending	759.5 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		00061929

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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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 onreligious art, and chronicles the successful struggle of the painters and sculptors themselves to elevate their status from craftsmen to creative artists.

Bibliography: [160]-164

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

Preface To Second Impression (p. iii)
Preface To The Fourth Impression (p. iii)
Preface To First Edition (p. v)
Chapter I Alberti (p. 1)
Chapter II Leonardo (p. 23)
Chapter III Colonna: Filarete: Savonarola (p. 39)
Chapter IV the Social Position of the Artist (p. 48)
Chapter V Michelangelo (p. 58)
Chapter VI the Minor Writers of the High Renaissance (p. 82)
Chapter VII Vasari (p. 86)
Chapter VIII the Council of Trent and Religious Art (p. 103)
Chapter IX the Later Mannerists (p. 137)
Bibliography (p. 160)
Index (p. 167)
The Oxford Authors (p. 172)
History In Oxford Paperbacks Tudor England (p. 173)
Oxford Reference The Concise Oxford Companion To English Literature (p. 174)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Anthony Blunt (1907-83) was formerly Professor of Art, University of London; Director of Courtauld Institute of Art (1947-1974); and Adviser for Queen's Pictures and Drawings. In 1965 he confessed to having been a Soviet agent since the 1930s, and when these revelations were made public in 1979, he was stripped of the knighthood he had been awarded in 1956.