Art historian Laurie Schneider Adams brings to students a vibrant and engaging presentation of Renaissance art history that is supported by up-to-date scholarship and methodology. The text opens with the late Byzantine work of Cimabue and concludes with the transition to Mannerism. The author’s focus is on the most important and innovative artists and their principal works, with a clear emphasis on selectivity and understanding. Italian Renaissance Art also focuses on style and iconography, and on art and artists, incorporating different methodological approaches to create a wider understanding and appreciation of the art.Distinguishing features of this text include: Over 400 illustrations, with 215 in full color, are integrated with the text, and large enough to properly view. In depth coverage on the most important and innovative artists and their principle works throughout Italy. Side boxes that provide additional material on techniques, biographical data, descriptions of artistic media, as well as necessary background information are used in every chapter. “Controversy” boxes introduce some of the ongoing scholarly quarrels among Renaissance art historians. Maps, plans, and diagrams are also included throughout. A historical chronology, a full glossary of art-historical terms, and a select bibliography are also included at the end of the text.
Laurie Schneider Adams received her Phd in art history from Columbia University. She is professor emerita at John jay College, CUNY, where she taught art history for 45 years. At the CUNY graduate center she taught Italian Renaissance art, art and psychoanalysis, methodologies of art, and artists' biographies. She is also a psychoanalyst in private practice. With Allison Coudert she coauthored five children's books about girls at a private school in New York. With Maria Grazia Pernis, she coauthored a book on Lucrezia Tornabuoni, the mother of Lorenzo the Magnificent, and the Medici family as well as a study of the lives and of Federico da Montefeltro of Urbino and Sigismondo Malatesta of Rimini. With Jacques Szaluta she co-edited Psychoanalysis and the Humanities, a collection of essays on art, literature, history, and psychoanalysis.
Adams has published widely in the field of art history, including introductory text books and books on methods of artistic analysis, art and psychoanalysis, and the Italian Renaissance.
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