Italian Art, 1500-1600: Sources and Documents - Softcover

Robert Klein

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0810108526 ISBN 13: 9780810108523

Publisher: Northwestern University Press, 1990

Synopsis

This title provides a view of the development of the literature on art in Italy during the Cinquecento. The selections bring out the close relationship between art theories and the actuality of art and chart a trend from a humanistic orientation to a more technical and professorial one. Together, the documents and the commentary reveal the effects that humanistic circles, the courts, and the Church (during the High Renaissance as well as the Counter-Reformation) had on the way people thought and wrote about art in that splendid century.

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About the Author:

For more than forty years Robert Klein has entertained audiences. He has had an acclaimed career in comedy, on Broadway, on television, and in film. Born in the Bronx, he was a member of the famed Second City theatrical troupe in Chicago in the 1960s. Twice he was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album of the Year: "Child of the Fifties" (1973) and "Mind Over Matter" (1974). He received a Tony Award nomination for Best Actor and won a Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for his performance in the hit Neil Simon musical "They're Playing Our Song" in 1979. In 1993, Klein won an Obie and the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in Wendy Wasserstein's "The Sisters Rosensweig." In 1975, Klein was the first comedian to appear in a live concert on Home Box Office. He has done seven one-man shows for HBO. He was a star of the hit NBC series "Sisters" and has made more than 100 appearances on "The Tonight Show" and "The Late Show with David Letterman." Notable films include "Hooper, The Owl and the Pussycat, Two Weeks Notice, " and "How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days."

About this edition

• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0810108526
• ISBN 13: 9780810108523
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 189