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The Resource Italian painting, Keith Christiansen

Italian painting, Keith Christiansen

Label
Italian painting
Title
Italian painting
Statement of responsibility
Keith Christiansen
Creator
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
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
Cataloging source
DLC
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Christiansen, Keith
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Painting, Italian
  • Peinture italienne
  • Painting, Italian
Label
Italian painting, Keith Christiansen
Instantiates
Publication
Note
Includes index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
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
Control code
26965452
Dimensions
36 cm
Extent
320 pages
Isbn
9780883635926
Lccn
94104025
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
chiefly color illustrations
System control number
(OCoLC)26965452
Label
Italian painting, Keith Christiansen
Publication
Note
Includes index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
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
Control code
26965452
Dimensions
36 cm
Extent
320 pages
Isbn
9780883635926
Lccn
94104025
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
chiefly color illustrations
System control number
(OCoLC)26965452

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