Title & Author:

Sixteenth-century Italian art / edited by Michael W. Cole.

Publication:

Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2006.

Description:

xv, 547 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Series:

Blackwell anthologies in art history ; 3

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Pagan mysteries. -- Raphael's tomb / Tilmann Buddensieg -- St. Peter's as ruins : on some vedute by Heemskerck / Christof Thoenes -- Virtue reconciled with pleasure / Edgar Wind -- Love's sweet poison : a new reading of Bronzino's London Allegory / Robert W. Gaston -- Nature and artifice. -- Science and the poetic impulse / Martin J. Kemp -- Mannerist grottos in sixteenth-century Italy / Philippe Morel -- Imitation, innovation, and renovation in the Counter-Reformation : landscapes all'antica in the Vatican Tower of the Winds / Nicola Courtright -- Landscapes and still lifes / Pamela M. Jones -- Figures and bodies. -- Preparing to finish : portraits by Pontormo and Bronzino around 1530 / Elizabeth Cropper -- The mistress in the masterpiece / Nancy J. Vickers -- Michelangelo's Florentine Pietà : the missing leg / Leo Steinberg -- Reclining bodies : figural ornament in Renaissance architecture / Alina Payne -- The artist. -- The new professionalism in the Renaissance / Catherine Wilkinson -- On some engravings by Giorgio Ghisi, commonly called "Reproductive" / Michael Bury -- The historian and the technique : on the role of goldsmithery in Vasari's Lives / Marco Collareta -- Reformations. -- Michelangelo and Vittoria Colonna / Charles de Tolnay -- Gifts for Michelangelo and Vittoria Colonna / Alexander Nagel -- The Gesù in the light of contemporary church design / James S. Ackerman -- The Carracci and the devout style in Emilia / Charles Dempsey -- Theory and practice. -- Leonardo's color and chiaroscuro / John Shearman -- The subject of Savoldo's Magdalene / Mary Pardo -- Figure come fratelli : a transformation of symmetry in Renaissance painting / David Summers -- Raphael, Angelo Colocci, and the genesis of the architectural orders / Ingrid D. Rowland.

Summary:

A collection of 23 classic and recent essays on the art and architecture of this fascinating period in art history, this text brings together important literature on 16th-century Italian art from the last half-century.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
Table of contents only

ISBN:

9781405108409 (hbk. alk. paper)
1405108401 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
9781405108416 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
140510841X (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Art, Italian 16th century.
Architecture Italy 16th century.
Art italien 16e siècle.
Architecture Italie 16e siècle.
Architecture
Art, Italian
Kunst
Sculpture, Italian 16th century.
Art Italie 16e siècle.
Italy
Italien

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Cole, Michael Wayne, 1969- editor.
Blackwell anthologies in art history ; 3.

16th century Italian art

Holdings:

Location: Library main 249183
Call No.: BIB 178764
Status: Available