During the fifteenth century drawing developed from a subsidiary role in the production of finished paintings to an art form in its own right. In this beautiful book, Francis Ames-Lewis examines the works of the major draughtsmen of the century -- Pisanello, Jacopo Bellini, Pollaiuolo, Ghirlandaio, Carpaccio, and Leonardo -- in order to discuss the new types of drawing that evolved.
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Drawing in Early Renaissance Italy: Revised Edition is an excellant book about the origin of drawing in the late Middle Ages to Early Renaissance. The author writes well and makes the subject matter a joy to read. If you are at all interested in the development of drawing and how it fits into the art making process then you will find this book extremely helpful and eye opening.
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FIFTEENTH and sixteenth-century writers on the arts provide us with various kinds of source material for drawing in Central Italy, and especially in Florence, but pitifully little for North Italian drawing. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
boxwood tablets, quattrocento drawings, silverpoint line, reddened paper, simile drawings, silverpoint drawing, pricked for transfer, experimental drawing, natural chalks, compositional drawings, drapery studies, black chalk, graphic handling, drawing practice, surviving drawings, compositional design, anatomical form, nude form, red chalk, prepared paper, brush drawing, nude study, nude man, chalk drawing, nude studies Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Leonardo da Vinci, British Museum, Jacopo Bellini, North Italian, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Gentile Bellini, Filippino Lippi, Benozzo Gozzoli, North Italy, Central Italian, Gentile da Fabriano, Tornabuoni Chapel, Parri Spinelli, Giovanni Bellini, Central Italy, Domenico Veneziano, Last Supper, Lorenzo Monaco, Maria Novella, Stefano da Verona, Christ Church, Vittore Carpaccio, Andrea Mantegna, Cennino Cennini, Fonte Gaia New!
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FIFTEENTH and sixteenth-century writers on the arts provide us with various kinds of source material for drawing in Central Italy, and especially in Florence, but pitifully little for North Italian drawing. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
boxwood tablets, quattrocento drawings, silverpoint line, reddened paper, simile drawings, silverpoint drawing, pricked for transfer, experimental drawing, natural chalks, compositional drawings, drapery studies, black chalk, graphic handling, drawing practice, surviving drawings, compositional design, anatomical form, nude form, red chalk, prepared paper, brush drawing, nude study, nude man, chalk drawing, nude studies Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Leonardo da Vinci, British Museum, Jacopo Bellini, North Italian, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Gentile Bellini, Filippino Lippi, Benozzo Gozzoli, North Italy, Central Italian, Gentile da Fabriano, Tornabuoni Chapel, Parri Spinelli, Giovanni Bellini, Central Italy, Domenico Veneziano, Last Supper, Lorenzo Monaco, Maria Novella, Stefano da Verona, Christ Church, Vittore Carpaccio, Andrea Mantegna, Cennino Cennini, Fonte Gaia New!
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- Sculpture of Donatello by H. W. Janson in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Giovanni Bellini. by Giles. Robertson in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Art, Science and History in the Renaissance (Humanities Seminars) by Professor Charles S. Singleton in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- On Painting (Penguin Classics) by Leon Battista Alberti in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Draftsman Raphael by Francis Ames-Lewis in Back Matter
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- Old Masters and Young Geniuses: The Two Life Cycles of Artistic Creativity by David W. Galenson in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Albrecht Dürer and the Venetian Renaissance by Katherine Crawford Luber in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Inventions of the Studio, Renaissance to Romanticism (Bettie Allison Rand Lectures in Art History) by Michael Cole in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Is There a Single Right Interpretation? (Studies of the Greater Philadelphia Philosophy Consortium) by Michael Krausz on page 371
- The Aesthetics of Italian Renaissance Art: A Reconsideration of Style (Cambridge Film Classics) by Hellmut Wohl in Back Matter
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