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Concepts of Beauty in Renaissance Art

Author(s): Ames-Lewis, Francis
ISBN10: 0754600610
ISBN13: 9780754600619
Cover: Paperback
 
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Table of Contents
List of Contributors
vii
List of figures
xi
Preface xv
Introduction
1(11)
Elizabeth Cropper
The biological basis of Renaissance aesthetics
12(16)
John Onians
The Perception of beauty in landscape in the quattrocento
28(16)
Alison Cole
`Condecenti et netti...': beauty, dress and gender in Italian Renaissance art
44(8)
Jane Bridgeman
Giovanni Sabadino degli Arienti and a practical definition of magnificence in the context of Renaissance architecture
52(14)
Rupert Shepherd
Beauty as an aesthetic and artistic ideal in late fifteenth-century Florence
66(14)
David Hemsoll
Defining the beautiful in early Renaissance Germany
80(13)
Andrew Morrall
The artist as beauty
93(14)
Mary Rogers
`La piu bella e meglio lavorata opera': beauty and good design in Italian Renaissance architecture
107(17)
Georgia Clarke
Poetry in motion: beauty in movement and the Renaissance conception of leggiadria
124(10)
Sharon Fermor
Resplendent vessels: Parmigianino at work in the Steccata
134(13)
Mary Vaccaro
Michelangelo's Christian neoplatonic aesthetic of beauty in his early oeuvre: the nuditas virtualis image
147(16)
Joanne Snow-Smith
Venetian glass and Renaissance self-fashioning
163(16)
Paul Hills
Vasari's interpretation of female beauty
179(12)
Liana De Girolami Cheney
The notion of beauty in Francesco Bocchi's Bellezze della citta di Fiorenza, I
191(8)
Thomas Frangenberg
The notion of beauty in Francesco Bocchi's Bellezze della citta di Fiorenza, II
199(8)
Robert Williams
Bibliography 207(20)
Index 227

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