Key Monuments Of The Italian Renaissance (Icon Editions) [Hardcover]

Laurie Schneider Adams (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 23, 2000 | Series: Icon Editions

Organized chronologically from early Renaissance precursors to the Mannerist movement, from Giotto to Titian, Key Monuments of the Italian Renaissance describes and analyzes in depth from various points of view major works and major artists, from the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries. Artists included are Cimabue, Duccio, Giotto, Lorenzetti, Ghiberti, Brunelleschi, Donatello, Massaccio, Gentile da Fabriano, Uccello, Rossellino, Castagno, Piero della Francesca, Alberti, Botticelli, G. Bellini, Verrocchio, Mantegna, G. Sangallo, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Bramante, Raphael, Giorgione, and Titian. The Florentine Renaissance, the High Renaissance in Florence and Rome, and High Renaissance Painting in Venice are covered. Includes a glossary, a bibliography of works cited, and suggested readings.

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About the Author

Laurie Schneider Adams teaches art history to undergraduate and graduate students at John Jay College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Adams is editor of Giotto in Perspective and the quarterly journal Source: Notes in the History of Art. She has contributed numerous articles and reviews to scholarly journals.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 224 pages
• Publisher: Basic Books (March 23, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0813334268
• ISBN-13: 978-0813334264
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,987,095 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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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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