In the Time of Michaelangelo

by Mason, Antony

• ISBN13: 9780761324553
• ISBN10: 0761324550
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-11-01
• Publisher: Copper Beech Books

Summary

Profiles major artists of the European Renaissance, and provides glimpses of developments in art in other parts of the world during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

Table of Contents

Introduction	5	(1)
Medieval Manuscript Illumination	6	(2)
Painting for the Church	8	(4)
Oil Painting in Northern Europe	12	(2)
Early Renaissance Sculpture	14	(2)
Perspective	16	(2)
Nonreligious Art	18	(2)
Classical Subjects	20	(1)
Leonardo da Vinci	21	(3)
The Spread of the Italian Renaissance	24	(2)
Figures in a Landscape	26	(2)
The World of the Imagination	28	(2)
Raphael	30	(1)
Michelangelo	31	(5)
Mannerism and the Counter-Reformation	36	(2)
Venice	38	(2)
Tintoretto and El Greco	40	(2)
Light and Dark	42	(2)
Rubens and Velazquez	44	(2)
Chronology of the Renaissance Period, A Brief History of Art, Glossary	46	(2)
Index	48