LoginPainting in Italy, 1500-1600
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'Art', declared Vasari in Lives of the Artists, has been reborn and reached perfection in our time'. Indeed the roster of great names in painting of the Cinquecento, which only begins with those of Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael, appears to justify this grand claim. Professor Freedberg here discusses the individual painters and analyses the hallmarks of their work. He traces the classical style of the High Renaissance, the Mannerism that succeeded it, and the events, in North Italy especially, that resist stylistic categories. He has given order to this diversity, but at the same time has preserved the intense individuality
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Read in '20 (22 books items)"If one wants to read a comprehensive book about, well, painting in Italy in the 16th century I'm pretty sure this is the one to go for. It starts in the late Quattrocento with the works of Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raffaello, and goes all the way up to late post-Maniera movements in Central Italy anticipating the kickstart of the Baroque by Caravaggio et al. Included are also loads of artists that you, or at least I, have never heard of before, and possibly will not after closing the covers of "
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