art, renaissance

Text and photographs interweave biography and social history to provide an understanding of the historical setting of the Renaissance artists.

Discusses the style and technique of the Italian Renaissance painter and sculptor, Michelangelo Buonarroti.

Describes the childhood of the famous artist and inventor, whose early interests in engineering, architecture, natural science, and painting were encouraged by his father.

Examines Renaissance art as a reflection of the culture of the period which lasted from the fourteenth to the mid-seventeenth century, and includes discussion of selected artists, and examples of their work.

Text and photographs interweave biography and social history to provide an understanding of the historical setting of the Renaissance artists.

Explores the Renaissance, interpreting it as the culmination of influences from preceding periods instead of a turn away from them; includes more than one hundred illustrations, including several color plates of Renaissance artwork.

An illustrated survey of the art and culture of Renaissance Europe.

Vanya Smurov, new to St. Petersburg, is taken under the wing of Larion Stroop who introduces the young man to a world of art and beauty, but when he learns that Stroop is a homosexual, Vanya goes in search of a more traditional existence in the Volga countryside, only to find himself wondering what really drew him to Stroop in the first place.

Explores the world, art, and life of the great Italian artist.

Discusses the life and work of six artists of the Italian Renaissance whose works represent important innovations and achievements in painting, sculpture, and architecture. Included are Giotto, Donatello, Brunelleschi, da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael.