Italian Frescoes: the Flowering of the Renaissance, 1470-1510

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The second volume in the only comprehensive modern survey of the surviving frescoes created during the middle years of the great Italian Renaissance. Praised by historians and art lovers alike, Steffe Roettgen's first volume on the frescoes of the early Italian Renaissance is the most comprehensive survey of the surviving fresco cycles painted from 1400 to 1470. In this second volume, featuring paintings from 1470 to 1510, scores of new photographs document the brilliance of works by Botticelli, Ghirlandaio, Filippino Lippi, Mantegna, Perugino, and Signorelli in palaces and chapels stretching from the Alps to Rome. Professor Roettgen's concise and authoritative text illuminates such celebrated sites as the Tornabuoni Chapel in Florence, the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican, and the Camera degli Sposi in Mantua. She also reveals the charm of lesser-known works, such as those in the tiny northern town of Issogne, which capture fifteenth-century men and women bargaining and flirting at an outdoor market. Descriptive and interpretive essays on each of the seventeen cycles touch on all aspects of fresco painting: the artists and their patrons, cultural and historical conditions, local traditions, and technique. Each essay concludes with a diagram of the site, followed by a stunning series of full-page and double-page color plates of the wall paintings, many of them newly restored. This second volume of Professor Roettgen's survey builds on the strengths of Italian Frescoes: The Early Renaissance, 1400-1470, and easily stands alone as a record of the spectacular art of a flourishing culture. Antonio Quattrone is regarded as one of the leading photographers of works of art; his many books include Italian Frescoes: The Early Renaissance, 1400-1470 (Abbeville) and Mantegna's Camera degli Sposi (Abbeville/Electa).

ISBN: 9780789202215
Author: ROETTGEN STEFFI
Format: Hardcover
Publication date: 27/05/1997
RRP: $285.00
Imprint: Abbeville Press