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Making Renaissance Art
Kim Woods
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Description for Making Renaissance Art
Paperback. Explores key themes in the making of Renaissance painting, sculpture, architecture and prints: the use of specific techniques and materials, theory and practice, change and continuity in artistic procedures, and conventions and values. This book also reconsiders the importance of mathematical perspective. Editor(s): Woods, Kim W. Series: Open University: Renaissance Art Reconsidered. Num Pages: 352 pages, 200 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: ACND; HBJD1; HBLC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 285 x 214 x 18. Weight in Grams: 1210.
This book explores key themes in the making of Renaissance painting, sculpture, architecture, and prints: the use of specific techniques and materials, theory and practice, change and continuity in artistic procedures, conventions and values. It also reconsiders the importance of mathematical perspective, the assimilation of the antique revival, and the illusion of life.
Embracing the full significance of Renaissance art requires understanding how it was made. As manifestations of technical expertise and tradition as much as innovation, artworks of this period reveal highly complex creative processes—allowing us an inside view on the vexed issue of the notion of a renaissance. ... Read more
This book explores key themes in the making of Renaissance painting, sculpture, architecture, and prints: the use of specific techniques and materials, theory and practice, change and continuity in artistic procedures, conventions and values. It also reconsiders the importance of mathematical perspective, the assimilation of the antique revival, and the illusion of life.
Embracing the full significance of Renaissance art requires understanding how it was made. As manifestations of technical expertise and tradition as much as innovation, artworks of this period reveal highly complex creative processes—allowing us an inside view on the vexed issue of the notion of a renaissance. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Series
Open University: Renaissance Art Reconsidered
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300121896
SKU
V9780300121896
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About Kim Woods
Kim W. Woods is lecturer, Art History Department, The Open University.
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