A broad survey of art and architecture in Italy between c. 1250 and 1600, this textbook approaches the works from the point of view of the artist as individual creator and as an expression of the city within which the artist was working. This textbook focuses on works of art, their creators, and the circumstances affecting their creation.
When Frederick Hartt's History of Italian Renaissance Art was first published more than forty years ago, it was a remarkable achievement. A large volume with dozens of color plates, it presented the story of Italian Renaissance art as it was appreciated and understood by one of the great scholars and teachers of the period.
Professor Hartt revised and expanded the textbook twice before his death in 1991. In 1993, David G. Wilkins was invited to continue this process; the fourth edition was published in 1994. The fifth edition (2003) had color illustrations throughout the text and included new works chosen to enrich the story Professor Hartt had laid out more than thirty years earlier. Wilkins has maintained the integrity of the story that Hartt first told so enthusiastically. The basic organization of his text has been retained, and the great majority of the works illustrated are those he originally chose. Throughout the years, new works have been added due to the advice of thoughtful reviewers, students, and colleagues.
The late Frederick Hartt was one of the most distinguished art historians of the twentieth century. A student of Berenson, Schapiro, and Friedlaender, he taught for more than fifty years, influencing generations of Renaissance scholars. At the time of his death he was Paul Goodloe McIntire Professor Emeritus of the History of Art at the University of Virginia. He was a Knight of the Crown of Italy, a Knight Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, an honorary citizen of Florence, and an honorary member of the Academy of the Arts of Design, Florence, a society whose charter members included Michelangelo and the Grand Duke Cosimo I de' Medici.
Hartt authored, among other works, Florentine Art under Fire (1949); Botticelli (1952); Giulio Romano (1958); Love in Baroque Art (1964); The Chapel of the Cardinal of Portugal (1964); three volumes on the painting, sculpture, and drawings of Michelangelo (1964, 1969, 1971); Donatello, Prophet of Modern Vision (1974); Michelangelo's Three Pietàs (1975); and the monumental Art: A History o f Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, now in its fourth edition (1993).
David G . Wilkins is professor emeritus of the history of art and architecture at the University of Pittsburgh and former chair of the department. He has also served on the faculties of the University of Michigan in Florence and the Semester at Sea Program. He is author of Donatello (1984, with Bonnie A. Bennett); Maso di Banco: A Florentine Artist of the Early Trecento (1985); The Illustrated Bartsch: "Pre-Rembrandt Etchers," vol. 53 (1985, with Kahren Arbitman); A History o f the Duquesne Club (1989, with Mark Brown and Lu Donnelly); Art Past/Art Present, a broad survey of the history of art (fifth edition, 2005, with Bernard Schultz and Katheryn M. Linduff); and The Art of the Duquesne Club (2001). He was the revising author for the fourth and fifth editions of History of Italian Renaissance Art: Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture (1994, 2003) and co-editor of The Search for a Patron in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (1996, with Rebecca L. Wilkins) and Beyond Isabella: Secular Women Patrons of Art in Renaissance Italy (2001 with Sheryl E. Reiss). He was editor of The Collins Big Book of Art (2005). In 2005 he also received the College Art Association’s national award for Distinguished Teaching in Art History.
Preface
Chapter 1 PRELUDE: ITALY AND ITALIAN ART 16
Representing This World 17
The Role of Antiquity 18
The Cities 20
The Guilds and the Status of the Artist 24
The Artist at Work 25
The Products of the Painter’s Bottega 25
The Practice of Drawing 27
The Practice of Painting 28
The Practice of Sculpture 33
The Practice of Architecture 34
Printmaking in the Renaissance 36
The Practice of History 36
The Practice of Art History: Giorgio Vasari 37
PART ONE: THE LATE MIDDLE AGES
Chapter 2 DUECENTO ART IN TUSCANY AND ROME 40
Painting in Pisa 42
Painting in Lucca 44
Painting in Florence 45
Painting in Rome 53
Sculpture 57
Architecture 64
Chapter 3 FLORENTINE ART OF THE EARLY TRECENTO 72
Giotto 73
Florentine Painters after Giotto 95
Sculpture 100
Chapter 4 SIENESE ART OF THE EARLY TRECENTO 102
Duccio 103
Simone Martini 110
Pietro Lorenzetti 119
Ambrogio Lorenzetti 122
Orvieto Cathedral 128
The Master of the Triumph of Death 134
Chapter 5 LATER GOTHIC ART IN TUSCANY AND NORTHERN ITALY 136
Mid-Trecento Art in Florence 138
Late Gothic Painting and the International Style 145
Painting and Sculpture in Northern Italy 149
PART TWO: THE QUATTROCENTO
Chapter 6 THE RENAISSANCE BEGINS: ARCHITECTURE 158
The Role of the Medici Family 160
Filippo Brunelleschi and Linear Perspective 161
The Dome of Florence Cathedral 164
The Ospedale degli Innocenti 168
Brunelleschi’s Sacristy for San Lorenzo 170
San Lorenzo and Santo Spirito 170
Santa Maria degli Angeli 173
The Pazzi Chapel 174
The Medici Palace and Michelozzi di Bartolommeo 174
Chapter 7 TRANSITIONS IN TUSCAN SCULPTURE 180
The Competition Panels 181
Ghiberti to 1425 183
Donatello to 1420 188
Nanni di Banco 193
Donatello (c. 1420 to c. 1435) 196
Jacopo della Quercia 199
Chapter 8 TRANSITIONS IN FLORENTINE PAINTING 202
Gentile da Fabriano 203
Masolino and Masaccio 206
Popular Devotion and Prints 220
Chapter 9 THE HERITAGE OF MASACCIO: FRA ANGELICO AND FRA FILIPPO LIPPI 222
Fra Angelico 224
Fra Filippo Lippi 232
Chapter 10 FLORENTINE ARCHITECTURE AND SCULPTURE, c. 1430—1455 238
Alberti 239
Ghiberti after 1425 249
Luca della Robbia 251
Donatello (c. 1433 to c. 1455) 254
Florentine Tomb Sculpture 261
The Portrait Bust 261
Chapter 11 FLORENTINE PAINTING AT MID-CENTURY 262
Paolo Uccello 263
Domenico Veneziano 267
Andrea del Castagno 271
Piero della Francesca 278
Chapter 12 ART IN FLORENCE UNDER THE MEDICI I 294
Donatello after 1453 298
Desiderio da Settignano 302
The Chapel of the Cardinal of Portugal 303
Benedetto and Giuliano da Maiano 306
Giuliano da Sangallo 309
Benozzo Gozzoli 312
Baldovinetti and Pesellino 313
Chapter 13 ART IN FLORENCE UNDER THE MEDICI II 318
Antonio del Pollaiuolo 320
Andrea del Verrocchio 327
Renaissance Cassoni 331
Alessandro Botticelli 332
Filippino Lippi 347
Domenico del Ghirlandaio 350
Piero di Cosimo 356
Chapter 14 THE RENAISSANCE IN CENTRAL ITALY 358
Siena 359
Sassetta 361
Domenico di Bartolo 362
Matteo di Giovanni 364
Vecchietta 364
Francesco di Giorgio 365
Neroccio de’ Landi 367
Perugia 369
Perugino 369
Pintoricchio 374
Melozzo da Forlì 376
The Laurana Brothers and Urbino 378
Naples 384
Luca Signorelli 385
Chapter 15 GOTHIC AND RENAISSANCE IN VENICE AND NORTHERN ITALY 388
Pisanello 389
Early Quattrocento Art and Architecture in Venice 393
Jacopo Bellini 395
Andrea Mantegna 397
Mantegna and Isabella d’Este 408
Gentile Bellini 411
Antonello da Messina 412
Giovanni Bellini 415
Vittore Carpaccio 421
Carlo Crivelli 425
Venetian Fabrics 426
Venetian Publishing 426
Late Quattrocento Sculpture and Architecture in Venice 428
Late Quattrocento Art in Milan 433
Vincenzo Foppa 433
Filarete 433
Quattrocento Painting in Ferrara 434
North Italian Terra-Cotta Sculpture 440
PART THREE: THE CINQUECENTO
Chapter 16 THE ORIGINS OF THE HIGH RENAISSANCE 442
Leonardo da Vinci 443
Michelangelo to 1505 469
Raphael in Perugia and Florence 480
Fra Bartolommeo 484
Chapter 17 THE HIGH RENAISSANCE IN ROME 486
Donato Bramante 489
Michelangelo 1505 to 1516 496
Raphael in Rome 515
Chapter 18 NEW DEVELOPMENTS c. 1520—50 542
Michelangelo 1516 to 1533 544
Andrea del Sarto 555
Pontormo 558
Rosso Fiorentino 563
Perino del Vaga 565
Domenico Beccafumi 567
Properzia de’ Rossi 570
Correggio 572
Parmigianino 577
Pordenone 580
Antonio da Sangallo the Elder and the Younger 581
Baldassare Peruzzi 586
Giulio Romano 586
Chapter 19 HIGH AND LATE RENAISSANCE IN VENICE AND ON THE MAINLAND 590
Giorgione 592
Titian 596
Lorenzo Lotto 613
Tullio Lombardo 616
Painting in Northern Italy 617
Tintoretto 624
Paolo Veronese 632
Jacopo Bassano 639
Michele Sanmicheli 639
Jacopo Sansovino 641
Andrea Palladio 643
Alessandro Vittoria 647
Chapter 20 THE LATE SIXTEENTH CENTURY 648
Michelangelo after 1534 649
Art at the Medici Court 660
Benvenuto Cellini 662
Bartolommeo Ammanati 665
Giovanni Bologna 667
Agnolo Bronzino and Francesco Salviati 669
Later Ceramic Production 674
Giorgio Vasari and the Studiolo 676
Developments Elsewhere 681
Giuseppe Arcimboldo 681
Lavinia Fontana 682
Giacomo da Vignola and Giacomo della Porta 683
Federico Barocci 687
Fede Galizia 689
Caravaggio 689
Sixtus V and the Urban Plan of Rome 691
Glossary 692
Bibliography 700
Locating Works of Renaissance
Art 715
Index 716
Photo Credits 735
Literary Credits 736
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