Viewing Renaissance Art

Author: Kim W. Woods

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  • : 39.99 NZD
  • : 9780300123432
  • : Yale University Press
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  • : May 2007
  • : 286mm X 216mm X 17mm
  • : United States
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  • : Open University: Renaissance Art Reconsidered
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Barcode 9780300123432
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Description

This book focuses on the values, priorities, and motives of patrons and the purposes and functions of art works produced north and south of the Alps and in post-Byzantine Crete. It begins by considering the social range and character of Renaissance patronage and ends with a study of Hans Holbein the Younger and the reform of religious images in Basle and England. Viewing Renaissance Art considers a wide range of audiences and patrons from the rulers of France to the poorest confraternities in Florence. The overriding premise is that art was not a neutral matter of stylistic taste but an aspect of material production in which values were invested--whether religious, cultural, social, or political.

Author description

Kim W. Woods, Carol M. Richardson, and Angeliki Lymberopoulou are lecturers, Art History Department, The Open University.