Viewing Renaissance Art (Renaissance Art Reconsidered Open University): 3 - Softcover

Open University, The; Richardson, Carol M.; Woods, Kim W.

 
9780300123432: Viewing Renaissance Art (Renaissance Art Reconsidered Open University): 3

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

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

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