Screen LibraryMasters of Venice : Renaissance painters of passion and power from the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna /
Featuring fifty masterworks by Mantegna, Giorgione, Titian, Veronese, and Tintoretto, this stunning book examines the brilliant painters who transformed the art of Renaissance Venice. Among the singular moments in the evolution of Western art, the Venetian Renaissance forged an artistic vocabulary o...
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Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco ; Delmonico Books/Prestel,
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| Publisher Address: | San Francisco : New York : |
| Publication Dates: | [2011] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
Featuring fifty masterworks by Mantegna, Giorgione, Titian, Veronese, and Tintoretto, this stunning book examines the brilliant painters who transformed the art of Renaissance Venice. Among the singular moments in the evolution of Western art, the Venetian Renaissance forged an artistic vocabulary of dazzling virtuosity. Celebrating the poetic potential of color and beauty observed in nature, Venetian painters of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries transcended the spatial, textural, and emotional realism of their predecessors to create works unsurpassed in their sensual depictions, velvety |
| Item Description: | Issued in connection with an exhibition held Oct. 29, 2011-Feb. 12, 2012, de Young Museum, San Francisco. |
| Carrier Form: | 159 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9783791351681 3791351680 |
| Index Number: | ND621 |
| CLC: | J205.546 |
| Call Number: | J205.546/M423 |
| Contents: |
Masters of Venice / The Visible Media: Methods and Materials of the Venetian Masters / Plates / Mantegna -- Giorgione -- Titian -- Artists of the Veneto -- Tintoretto -- Bassano -- Veronese. |