Renaissance Art: A Very Short Introduction

by Geraldine A. Johnson

Book Overview

Artists like Botticelli, Holbein, Leonardo, D rer, and Michelangelo and works such as the Last Supper fresco and the monumental marble statue of David, are familiar symbols of the Renaissance. But who were these artists, why did they produce such memorable images, and how would their original beholders have viewed these objects? Was the Renaissance only about great masters and masterpieces, or were women artists and patrons also involved? And what...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192803549
• ISBN13: 9780192803542
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 4.3" x 6.9"