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Marcia B. Hall (Ed.) - Naples - 9780521780001 - V9780521780001
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Naples

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Description for Naples hardcover. This book examines works of visual art and architecture produced in the city of Naples between 1300 and 1600. Editor(s): Hall, Marcia B.; Willette, Thomas; Beyer, Andreas. Series: Artistic Centers of the Italian Renaissance. Num Pages: 400 pages, 202 b/w illus. 36 colour illus. BIC Classification: 1DST; AC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 279 x 216. .
Naples was by far the largest urban center on the Italian peninsula during the early modern period, and in the years covered by this book, from the early 1300s to the early 1600s, its inhabitants witnessed vast programs of building and decoration spurred by the cultural needs of royal, ecclesiastical, and baronial elites. Yet the city's many beautiful churches and palaces, stone sculptures, fresco cycles, and altarpieces have not received the sustained attention in Anglophone scholarship that has been lavished for generations on other major centers of artistic production, such as Florence, Rome, or Venice. This book surveys the visual ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
Series
Artistic Centers of the Italian Renaissance
Number of Pages
406
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521780001
SKU
V9780521780001
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About Marcia B. Hall (Ed.)
Marcia B. Hall is Carnell Professor of Renaissance Art at Temple University. She is the series editor of Artistic Centers of the Italian Renaissance and editor of the first volume in the series, Rome (Cambridge University Press, 2005). She is the author of Renovation and Counter-Reformation; Color and Meaning; After Raphael; Michelangelo: The Frescoes of the Sistine Chapel; and The ... Read more

Reviews for Naples
'Provides ample evidence of Naples's artistic importance. … Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.' A. L. Palmer, Choice

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