A New History of Italian Renaissance Art

Description

Campbell and Cole, respected teachers and active researchers, draw on traditional and current scholarship to present complex interpretations in this new edition of their engaging account of Italian Renaissance art. The book's unique decade-by-decade structure is easy to follow, and permits the authors to tell the story of art not only in the great centres of Rome, Florence and Venice, but also in a range of other cities and sites throughout Italy, including more in this edition from Naples, Padua and Palermo. This approach allows the artworks to take centre-stage, in contrast to the book's competitors, which are organized by location or by artist. Other updates for this edition include an expanded first chapter on the Trecento, and a new 'Techniques and Materials' appendix that explains and illustrates all of the major art-making processes of the period. Richly illustrated with high-quality reproductions and new photography of recent restorations, it presents the classic canon of Renaissance painting and sculpture in full, while expanding the scope of conventional surveys by offering a more thorough coverage of architecture, decorative and domestic arts, and print media.

Stephen J. Campbell is Henry and Elizabeth Wiesenfeld Professor and Acting Department Chair at Johns Hopkins University. He taught previously at the University of Michigan and the University of Pennsylvania. Michael W. Cole has taught at the University of North Carolina, at the University of Pennsylvania, and at Williams College; he is currently Professor and Department Chair of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University.

'Splendid ... Campbell and Cole have written an enlightened book that can be read with profit by advanced beginners as well as seasoned professionals' - The Art Newspaper 'To read it is an education in itself ... this is an informed, enlightened and useful book' - The Irish Times 'Dazzlingly ambitious and formidably intelligent, this is very much a book of today, which seems destined to remain the survey of choice for years to come' - David Ekserdjian, Leicester University, UK 'Elegant and comprehensive ... magnificent' - Minerva