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OverviewA major account of Renaissance portraiture by one of the twentieth century’s most eminent art historians In this book, John Pope-Hennessy provides an unprecedented look at two centuries of experiment in portraiture during the Renaissance. Pope-Hennessy shows how the Renaissance cult of individuality brought with it a demand that the features of the individual be perpetuated, a concept first manifested in the portraits that fill the great Florentine fresco cycles and led, later in the fifteenth century, to the creation of the independent portrait by such artists as Sandro Botticelli, Antonio del Pollaiuolo, Giovanni Bellini, and Antonello da Messina. Pope-Hennessy goes on to describe the process by which Titian and the great artists of the High Renaissance transformed the portrait from a record of appearance into an analysis of character. Full Product DetailsAuthor: John Wyndham Pope-HennessyPublisher: Princeton University Press Imprint: Princeton University Press ISBN: 9780691252124ISBN 10: 0691252122 Pages: 384 Publication Date: 15 August 2023 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsReviews"""Elegant, erudite, and very readable. . . . Concentrating on the stylistic morphology of the portrait and drawing on the whole range of spiritual, cultural, and aesthetic forces that determined its development in these glorious centuries, Mr. Pope-Hennessy is able to show us these artists in a fresh light. . . . [The] book is animated by an admirable intelligence and a fine clarity.""---Hilton Kramer, New York Times Book Review" Elegant, erudite, and very readable. . . . Concentrating on the stylistic morphology of the portrait and drawing on the whole range of spiritual, cultural, and aesthetic forces that determined its development in these glorious centuries, Mr. Pope-Hennessy is able to show us these artists in a fresh light. . . . [The] book is animated by an admirable intelligence and a fine clarity. ---Hilton Kramer, New York Times Book Review Author InformationSir John Pope-Hennessy (1913–1994) was consultative chairman of the Department of European Paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and professor of fine arts at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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