Renaissance Art & Architecture. - CAMPBELL, GORDON

KORTE INHOUD

The Renaissance, French for 'rebirth', was undoubtedly the most intensely creative period in history. This explosion of activity is reflected perhaps more than elsewhere in the art and architecture of the period. The legacy the artists, sculptors, tradesmen, architects, garden designers, engravers, and printers left behind can still be seen all over Europe today, not only in the things produced at the time but also in modern art, architecture, culture, and ways of thinking.
Illustrated throughout with forty black-and-white, integrated pictures and sixteen pages of color plates, Renaissance Art and Architecture provides the reader with an informative overview of this fascinating period and comprehensive, alphabetically arranged entries on individual artists, architects and theorists, Schools, styles, techniques, and terms. Intruiging captions explain all featured pictures, giving the history and myth behind paintings, buildings, sculptures, and more.
Spanning the years 1415 to 1618 the A-Z text covers drawing,...
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2004Uitgever: Oxford University press278 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 019860985XISBN-13: 9780198609858

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