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OverviewMarilyn Aronberg Lavin has taught the history of art at Washington University, the University of Maryland, Yale, Princeton, and Università di Roma, La Sapienza. Specializing in Italian 13th-16th century painting, she is internationally known for her books and articles on Piero della Francesca. Her other books include The Place of Narrative: Mural Painting in Italian Churches, 431-1600 AD., and Seventeenth-Century Barberini Documents and Inventories of Art , both of which were recipients of international prizes for distinguished scholarship. She is one of the leaders in the use of computers and digitized imagery for research, teaching, and publication in the history of art. This book offers a series of case studies intended to introduce and define an important class of fifteenth-century Italian art not previously recognized. It is argued that the paintings and sculptures discussed were created privately by artists for personal satisfaction and internal needs, outside the traditional framework of patronage and commercial gain. Since there is no direct documentation from this period of a work being privately made, the selection presented here is necessarily speculative. Instead, the essays focus on works by Piero della Francesca, Mantegna, Michelangelo, Bellini, and Titian that appear in the artists' testaments, letters of refusals to sell, and inventories showing ownership at the time of death. The task at hand is to uncover the motivation and meaning of works of art in which the medieval craftsman began to rise to the status of independent artist, and the maker and the viewer confront each other face to face for the first time. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Marilyn Aronberg LavinPublisher: Pindar Press Imprint: Pindar Press Weight: 0.865kg ISBN: 9781904597636ISBN 10: 1904597637 Pages: 240 Publication Date: 31 December 2009 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsPreface 1 Pre-Oration: The Historical Beginnings Peroration: the Artist's Tomb 2 Lorenzo Ghiberti and the Expressive Self; Peroration: Artists Collections and the Extended Self 3 Piero della Francesca and the Joyful Self 4 Mantegna and the Consolable Self 5 Michelangelo and the Self Aware Peroration: Botticelli and the Political Self 6 Giovanni Bellini and the Surviving Self Titian and the Satisfied Self 7 Bernini and the Truthful Self Post-Oration: The Artist as Such Appendix Selected Bibliography IndexReviewsAuthor InformationMarilyn Aronberg Lavin has taught the history of art at Washington University, the University of Maryland, Yale, Princeton, and Università di Roma, La Sapienza. Specializing in Italian 13th-16th century painting, she is internationally known for her books and articles on Piero della Francesca. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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