The Portrait in the Renaissance: The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts

John Pope-Hennessy

ISBN 10: 0691018251 / ISBN 13: 9780691018256

Editore: Princeton University Press, 1979

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This major work by one of the twentieth century's most eminent art historians is available again in paperback through Princeton University Press. Here John Pope-Hennessy takes as his subject two centuries of experiment in portraiture during the Renaissance. He shows how the Renaissance cult of individuality brought with it a demand that the features of the individual be perpetuated. This concept was first manifested in the portraits that fill the great Florentine fresco cycles and led, later in the fifteenth century, to the creation of the independent portrait by such artists as Botticelli, Antonio Pollaiuolo, Giovanni Bellini, and Antonello da Messina. The author goes on to describe the process by which Titian and the great artists of the High Renaissance transformed the portrait from a record of appearance into an analysis of character.

Informazioni sull'autore: Sir John Pope-Hennessy was Consultative Chairman of the Department of European Paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Professor of Fine Arts at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. He was Slade Professor of Fine Art at Oxford and Cambridge Universities.

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Titolo: The Portrait in the Renaissance: The A. W. ...
Casa editrice: Princeton University Press
Data di pubblicazione: 1979
Legatura: Paperback
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