Main entry:

Huse, Norbert, author.

Title & Author:

The art of Renaissance Venice : architecture, sculpture, and painting, 1460-1590 / Norbert Huse, Wolfgang Wolters ; translated by Edmund Jephcott.

Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1990.

Description:

v, 382 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm

Notes:
Translation of: Venedig, die Kunst der Renaissance.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-369) and index.
Machine derived contents note: Architecture & Sculpture -- Wolfgang Wolters -- 1. Forma Urbis -- 2. The Beginnings -- 3. Civic Architecture -- House and Palace -- Mauro Codussi -- Buildings of the First Half of the Sixteenth Century -- Public Buildings -- Jacopo Sansovino -- Michele Sanmicheli -- Andrea Palladio -- Buildings of the Second Half of the Sixteenth Century -- 4. Sacred Buildings -- Churches and Monasteries (1460-1530) -- Jacopo Sansovino and His Contemporaries -- Andrea Palladio -- 5. Scuole -- 6. Villas for Venetians -- 7. Sculpture -- The Sculptor's Workshop -- Antonio Rizzo -- The Lombardo Family and Their Contemporaries -- Jacopo Sansovino -- Alessandro Vittoria -- Plates -- Painting -- Norbert Huse -- 8. Between 1460 and 1505 -- Artisans or Artists? -- Altar Panels -- Christ and the Virgin "in Forma Pietatis" -- Histories and Legends -- Faces and Landscapes -- 9. Between 1505 and 1550 -- Autonomy and Competition -- Altarpieces and Devotional Paintings -- Portraits -- Mythology or Genre? -- History Painting -- 10. Between 1550 and 1590 -- Pictures and Their Audience -- Altarpieces -- Portrait Painting -- History in Pictures -- Ceiling Paintings -- Gods and Landscapes -- About 1590 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Photo Credits -- Index.

Summary:

Norbert Huse and Wolfgang Wolters provide the first contemporary single-volume survey of the three arts of Venice -- painting, sculpture, and architecture. They offer an important counterbalance to the traditional orientation toward painting as the city's preeminent art by focusing on architecture as the essential Venetian artistic medium. In the process, they define the distinctly Venetian terms by which the city and culture should be understood. Huse and Wolters begin their study with 1460, when Venice was one of the key powers of Italy, and end their discussion with the death of Tintoretto in 1594, a period of waning international power. Wolfgang Wolters outlines the city's development and present a typological survey of Venetian architecture. A review of sculptors and their works follows. Norbert Huse opens the next section, on painting, by describing the changed situation of painters at the end of the fifteenth century. He explores the different forms and functions of Venetian paintings in three distinct periods. With over three hundred illustrations and an exhaustive bibliography, this volume successfully fills a gap in art historical scholarship. -- From publisher's description.

Resources:
Table of contents
Publisher description

ISBN:

0226361071 (alk. paper)
9780226361079 (alk. paper)
0226361098 (pbk.)
9780226361093 (pbk.)

Subject:

Art, Italian Italy Venice.
Art, Renaissance Italy Venice.
Art, italian Italy Venice.
Venice (Italy) Buildings, structures, etc.
Art italien Italie Venise.
Art de la Renaissance Italie Venise.
Art, Italian
Art, Renaissance
Buildings
Art, Italian Italy Venice History.
Renaissance Italy Venice.
Venise (Italie) Constructions.
Italy Venice
Visual arts History
Venice (Italy)

Added entries:

Wolters, Wolfgang, author.
Jephcott, E. F. N., translator.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 57023
Call No.: ID:90-B5340
Status: Available