Painting as a Modern Art in Early Renaissance Italy

by Robert Brennan

Concepts of modernity have played a constitutive role in the canon of European art history at least since Giorgio Vasari, who looked back upon Giotto as the founder of "modern art" (arte moderna). The aim of this book is to establish a prehistory of Vasari's view. Was Vasari merely projecting a sixteenth-century concept of artistic modernity onto the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, or were the artists of that period guided by some notion of modernity...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1912554003
• ISBN13: 9781912554003
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: Harvey Miller
• Length: 366 Pages
• Weight: 4.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 9.1" x 11.3"