The art of Humanism / Kenneth Clark.

Main entry:

Clark, Kenneth, 1903-1983.

Title & Author:

The art of Humanism / Kenneth Clark.

Edition:

1st U.S. ed.

Publication:

Description:

189 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Series:

Icon editions

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / by John Walker -- Donatello and the tragic sense in the quattrocento -- Paolo Uccello and abstract painting -- Leon Battista Alberti on painting -- Mantegna and classical antiquity -- Botticelli's illustrations to Dante.

Summary:

Kenneth Clark discusses five masters of Humanistic architecture, painting and sculpture in fifteenth-century Italy. Defining the Humanism of Alberti, Donatello, Uccello, Mantegna and Botticelli as a belief in the greatness of man and the supremacy of human values, Kenneth Clark provides the reader with a rare appreciation and understanding of these great artists, their time, and their art. -- From publisher's description.

ISBN:

0064308618
9780064308618
(pbk.)
0604301257

Subject:

Donatello, 1386?-1466.
Uccello, Paolo, 1397-1475.
Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404-1472.
Mantegna, Andrea, 1431-1506.
Botticelli, Sandro, 1444 or 1445-1510.
Art, Renaissance Italy.
Sculpture, Renaissance Italy.
Painting, Renaissance Italy.
Art, Italian.
Humanism in art.
Art de la Renaissance Italie.
Art italien.
Humanisme dans l'art.
Sculpture de la Renaissance Italie.
Peinture de la Renaissance Italie.
Art, Renaissance
art italien humanisme Renaissance.
Italy

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Location: Library main 133289
Call No.: ID:86-B7993
Status: Available

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