Italian Renaissance Sculpture
Roberta J. M. Olson
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| ‘A good balance between the familiar and the unknown . . . a fine achievement’ | | – Arts Review |
The sculptors of the Italian Renaissance transformed their Classical and regional heritage. From about 1260 to 1600, these masters introduced revolutionary innovations in freestanding figures and portraits, while on reliefs convincing perspective was rendered for the first time, predating its use in painting. The Renaissance notion of the artist as genius is vividly embodied in contemporary sculptors, from Nicola Pisano through Brunelleschi and Donatello to Michelangelo and Giambologna.
Roberta Olson surveys the extraordinary artistic achievements of the period, which were to affect the practice of Western art for ever.
Also of interest:
The Art of the Renaissance
The High Renaissance and Mannerism
The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of the Italian Renaissance
Italian Baroque Sculpture |
|  |  | | | | ISBN 0500202532 | | ISBN-13 978-0500202531 | | | | 21.0 x 14.9 cm | | Paperback | | 216pp | | 171 illustrations, 20 in colour | | First published 1992 | | | | £9.95 | | | |  | | | | 
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