Concepts of beauty in renaissance art. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Francis Ames-Lewis and Mary Rogers.
• Editors: Ames-Lewis, Francis, 1943-; Rogers, Mary (Mary Ruth)
• Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of contributors; List of figures; Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 The biological basis of Renaissance aesthetics; 3 The perception of beauty in landscape in the quattrocento; 4 'Condecenti et netti ...': beauty, dress and gender in Italian Renaissance art; 5 Giovanni Sabadino degli Arienti and a practical definition of magnificence in the context of Renaissance architecture; 6 Beauty as an aesthetic and artistic ideal in late fifteenth-century Florence; 7 Defining the beautiful in early Renaissance Germany 8 The artist as beauty9 'La più bella e meglio lavorata opera': beauty and good design Italian Renaissance architecture; 10 Poetry in motion: beauty in movement and the Renaissance conception of leggiadrìa; 11 Resplendent vessels: Parmigianino at work in the Steccata; 12 Michelangelo's Christian neoplatonic aesthetic of beauty in his early oeuvre: the nuditas virtualis image; 13 Venetian glass and Renaissance self-fashioning; 14 Vasari's interpretation of female beauty; 15 The notion of beauty in Francesco Bocchi's Bellezze della città di Fiorenza, I 16 The notion of beauty in Francesco Bocchi's Bellezze della città di Fiorenza, IIBibliography; Index
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2018
• Copyright Date: 1998
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 701.17094; Aesthetics -- History; Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) in art; Art, Renaissance; Aesthetics; Art, Renaissance; Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) in art; ART / General; History; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780429860546; 0429860544; 9780429459382; 0429459386
• Related ISBNs: 9781138611276; 1138611271
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.