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Mantegna
Mantegna was one of the principal Italian artists of the second half of the fifteenth century.This is in no sense a subsequent judgement by an enlightened posterity as during his own lifetime, literary compliments abound and his services were much sought after. His work was freely compared to other illustrious contemporaries such as Leonardo da Vinci, Giovanni Bellini and Pietro Perugino; and the qualities which critics praised are easily understandable.His ability as a draughtsman was much admired, as was the quality of his colour and the variety of his imaginative powers. But he was especially admired as a Prospective - an artist of extraordinary skill and ability in the manipulation of effects in perspective and foreshortening.
Gothic Art
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The Bishop's Palace
This lavishly illustrated book looks at the art and architecture of episcopal palaces as expressions of power and ideology. Tracing the history of the bishop's residence in the urban centers of northern Italy over the Middle Ages, Maureen C. Miller asks why this once rudimentary and highly fortified structure called a domus became a complex and elegant "palace" (palatium) by the late twelfth century. Miller argues that the change reflects both the emergence of a distinct clerical culture and the attempts of bishops to maintain authority in public life. She relates both to the Gregorian reform movement, which set new standards for clerical deportment and at the same time undercut episcopal cl...
Gothic Art from the Twelfth to Fifteenth Centuries
Few artistic terms have had such a confused history as the word "Gothic." Andrew Martindale approaches this complex period by first setting up terms with which to deal with it. He considers Gothic art basically as the style that developed in the Ile-de-France and northern France from 1140 to 1240. He traces the ascendancy of the style in other areas of France and in adjoining countries until 1250, when Paris had become an important artistic center and the norther French style had been widely adopted outside France. then Martindale treats Italian art of the next century, which culminated in the painting of Giotto. He shows how the Gothic style influenced the Italians and how their style in turn began to spread northward. From 1350 to 1400, there was increased exchange of artistic ideas across the Alps. There is a chapter on the brief floweirng of Prague as the center of a curiously hybrid culture at this time. "Gothic Art" is equally comprehensive in its treatment of the minor arts of the age and their interrelations -- painting, manuscript illumination, stained glass, tapestry, and metalwork. -- From publisher's description.
