Concepts of beauty in Renaissance art / edited by Francis Ames-Lewis and Mary Rogers.

Title & Author:

Concepts of beauty in Renaissance art / edited by Francis Ames-Lewis and Mary Rogers.

Publication:

Description:

xvi, 241 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-226) and index.
Introduction / Elizabeth Cropper -- The biological basis of Renaissance aesthetics / John Onians -- The perception of beauty in landscape in the quattrocento / Alison Cole -- 'Condecenti et netti ... ': beauty, dress and gender in Italian Renaissance art / Jane Bridgeman -- Giovanni Sabadino degli Arienti and a practical definition of magnificence in the context of Renaissance architecture / Rupert Shepherd -- Beauty as an aesthetic and artistic ideal in late fifteenth-century Florence / David Hemsoll -- Defining the beautiful in early Renaissance Germany / Andrew Morrall -- The artist as beauty / Mary Rogers -- 'La più bella e meglio lavorata opera': beauty and good design in Italian Renaissance architecture / Georgia Clarke -- Poetry in motion: beauty in movement and the Renaissance conception of leggiadrìa / Sharon Fermor -- Resplendent vessels: Parmigianino at work in the Steccata / Mary Vaccaro -- Michelangelo's Christian neoplatonic aesthetic of beauty in his early oeuvre: the nuditas virtualis image / Joanne Snow-Smith -- Venetian glass and Renaissance self-fashioning / Paul Hills -- Vasari's interpretation of female beauty / Liana De Girolami Cheney -- The notion of beauty in Francesco Bocchi's Bellezze della città di Fiorenza, I / Thomas Frangenberg -- The notion of beauty in Francesco Bocchi's Bellezze della città di Fiorenza, II / Robert Williams.

ISBN:

1859284256 (acid-free paper)
9781859284254 (acid-free paper)
0754600610
9780754600619

Subject:

Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)
Arts, Italian.
Arts, Renaissance Italy.
Beauté féminine (Esthétique)
Arts italiens.
Arts de la Renaissance Italie.
Arts, Renaissance.
Renaissance
Schönheit
Schönheitsideal
Ästhetik
Kongress
Beeldende kunsten.
Schoonheid.
Art, Italian.
Art, Renaissance Italy.
Art, Renaissance.
Italy.
Aufsatzsammlung

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.
Kongress Newcastle-upon-Tyne 1996.
Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1996)

Added entries:

Ames-Lewis, Francis, 1943-
Rogers, Mary (Mary Ruth)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 191624
Call No.: ID NX650.F45.C66; ID:97-B2622
Status: Available

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