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Book SynopsisA new edition of Campbell and Cole's acclaimed survey of Italian Renaissance art, updated to reflect the very latest scholarship and contemporary restorations.
Trade Review'Splendid … Campbell and Cole have written an enlightened book that can be read with profit by advanced beginners as well as seasoned professionals' - The Art Newspaper
'To read it is an education in itself … this is an informed, enlightened and useful book' - The Irish Times
'Dazzlingly ambitious and formidably intelligent, this is very much a book of today, which seems destined to remain the survey of choice for years to come' - David Ekserdjian, Leicester University, UK
'Elegant and comprehensive … magnificent' - Minerva
Table of ContentsIntroduction • 1. 1300–1400: The Trecento Inheritance • 2. 1400–1410: The Cathedral and the City • 3. 1410–1420: Commissioning Art: Standardization, Customization, Emulation • 4. 1420–1430: Perspective and Its Discontents • 5. 1430–1440: Practice and Theory • 6. 1440–1450: Palace and Church • 7. 1450–1460: Rome and Other Romes • 8. 1460–1470: Courtly Values • 9. 1470–1480: What Is Naturalism? • 10. 1480–1490: Migration and Mobility • 11. 1490–1500: The Allure of the Secular • 12. 1500–1510: Human Nature • Italian Renaissance Materials and Techniques • Chronology of Rule 1400–1600: Key Centers • Glossary • Bibliographical Notes and Suggestions for Further Reading • Sources of Quotations
