art, italian

Focuses on 100 key, broadly chronological milestones that cover a range of topics across Leonardo's many fields of discipline: painting, anatomical studies, his progressive engagement with a range of sciences, and more.

Biographical essays from Giorgio Vasari reveal his interpretations of the lives and works of twenty artists from the Italian Renaissance, covering Cimabue, Donatello, Mantegna, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, Titian, and others.

Detailed biographies of six Italian artists and reproductions of their works.

We learn of his encounters with the vast population that surrounds Leonardo: great and lesser academics, collectors and curators, devious dealers and unctuous auctioneers, major scholars and authors and pseudohistorians and fantasists; but also how he has grappled with swelling legions of 'Leonardo loonies', walked on the eggshells of vested interests in academia and museums, and fended off fusillades of non-Leonardos, sometimes more than one a week.

"Part of the Tate Introduction series, this book is a lively and accessible introduction to the life and work of Amedeo Modigliani. Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920) produced some of the most memorable art of the early twentieth century. Born in Livorno, Italy and working in Paris from 1906, he was unappreciated in his lifetime but has come to be regarded as one of the most influential figures of early modernism. In a tragically short career, experimentation and innovation were consistent priorities"--Provided by publisher.

Profiles the life and work of Michelangelo, discussing both his popular and lesser-known artistic creations, his impact on the art world, and his inspirations. Includes full-color reproductions of his paintings and sculptures.

"Intertwines the stories of a defiant Renaissance painter and a modern teenage girl ... two characters inhabit the spaces between categories. In one half of the book, we follow the story of Francescho del Cossa, a Renaissance painter in fifteenth-century Italy who assumes a dual identity, living as both a man and a woman. In the novel's other half, George, a contemporary English teenage girl, is in mourning after the death of her brilliant, rebellious mother. As she struggles to fill the void in her life, George finds her thoughts circling again and again around a whimsical trip she and her mother once made to Italy, to see a certain Renaissance fresco."--Provided by publisher.

Before they achieved renown as patrons of the arts and de facto rulers of Florence, the Medici family earned their fortune in banking. But even at the height of the Renaissance, charging interest of any kind meant running afoul of the Catholic Church?s ban on usury. Tim Parks reveals how the legendary Medicis?Cosimo and Lorenzo ?the Magnificent? in particular?used the diplomatic, military, and even metaphysical tools at hand, along with a healthy dose of intrigue and wit, to further their fortunes as well as their family?s standing.