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Italian painting, Keith Christiansen

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illustrations

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non fiction

Italian painting

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Keith Christiansen

This volume presents Italian painting through specific themes, as well as by chronological and regional achievement. With approximately 300 colourplates, this large-format book contains devotional images, portraits, landscapes, allegorical paintings, genre scenes, still life arranements, and abstract compositions. Keith Christiansen is Curator of European Paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. His introduction and twenty eight essays set out in history of Italian Painting and its lasting impact. His thoughtful presentation not only instructs but also delights the reader with anecdotal details and innovative visual connections. -- http://www.ebay.com

Introduction : defining Italian painting -- The heritage of Rome -- The legacy of Constantine -- Visions of heaven -- Sermons in paint -- Painting for the Medieval commune -- Courtly taste in the Renaissance -- The primacy of drawing in Tuscan painting -- The color of Venice -- Painters of reality -- Art and nature -- The triumph of Rome -- The hard edge of reality -- Stretching space -- Painting as poetry -- Venus, love and poetry -- Portraits of status -- Dressing up -- A society of men -- The second sex -- Ideal women -- Landscapes of the imagination -- Landscapes of fact -- Arresting time -- The third estate and private pleasures -- Toward a new naturalism -- A manifesto for the future -- Art under fascism -- Modernism and beyond