Masters of Renaissance Art: 4 Classic Books on Italian Painters
Classic Studies of Italian Painters, Patronage, Sacred Imagery, and Artistic GeniusBy Bernard Berenson, Estelle M. Hurll, Harry Quilter, Leader Scott
Length16h 45m
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Masters of Renaissance Art gathers four classic studies of Italian painting into a capacious portrait of the Renaissance as an artistic, intellectual, and cultural transformation. Moving between biographical narrative, formal criticism, connoisseurial judgment, and richly contextualized art history, the volume illuminates painters, schools, patrons, and the changing ideals of beauty that shaped Italy's visual culture. Its selections offer both close attention to individual masterpieces and a wider account of the period's innovations in naturalism, devotional image-making, portraiture, and historical memory. The contributing writers represent influential traditions in Anglophone Renaissance scholarship and criticism. Bernard Berenson's discerning emphasis on attribution, style, and the sensuous vitality of painting stands alongside Estelle M. Hurll's accessible interpretive approach, Harry Quilter's critical engagement with artistic value, and Leader Scott's historically attentive cultural narration. Together, these voices reflect the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century formation of modern art history, when aesthetic response, archival curiosity, biography, and comparative study increasingly converged in the study of the Italian past. This volume is especially rewarding for students, museum-goers, and general readers seeking multiple routes into Renaissance art. By placing distinct critical temperaments in dialogue, it reveals not only the richness of Italian painting but also the evolving methods through which it has been understood. Readers will find an instructive, wide-ranging invitation to examine masterpieces, reputations, and the very practice of art appreciation.
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Publish dateMar 4, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Giotto
2Giotto
3PREFACE.
4CHAPTER III. FRESCO PAINTING.
5CHAPTER VII. THE EARLY WORK OF GIOTTO AT FLORENCE AND ROME.
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6CHAPTER IX. GIOTTO'S STYLE.
7CHAPTER XII. GIOTTO'S LATER WORK AT FLORENCE.
8The Florentine Painters of the Renaissance. With An Index To Their Works
9The Florentine Painters of the Renaissance. With An Index To Their Works
10I.
11IX. (pt. 1)
12IX. (pt. 2)
13INDEX OF PLACES.
14Fra Bartolommeo
15Fra Bartolommeo
16FOREWORD
17CHAPTER IV. SAN MARCO. A.D. 1496-1500.
18CHAPTER VIII. CLOSE OF LIFE. A.D. 1514—1517.
19CHAPTER II. THE SERVITE CLOISTER. A.D. 1511-1512.
20CHAPTER VI. ANDREA AND OTTAVIANO DE' MEDICI. A.D. 1521-1523.
21Raphael
22Raphael
231899
24II
25X
26PRONOUNCING VOCABULARY OF PROPER NAMES AND FOREIGN WORDS
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