| Description |
444 pages : illustrations (part color) maps, portraits (part color) ; 30 cm |
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At head of title: Art and mankind. |
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"English text prepared by Emily Evershed, Hugh Newbury, Ralph de Seram and Katherine Watson from [v. 3. of] the French original, L'art et l'homme." |
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Introduction / Evelyn King -- 1. The end of the Middle Ages and the growth of realism -- Art forms and society / René Huyghe -- The revival of realism in Medieval Italy / Enzo Carli -- Historical summary / Lydie Huyghe and Adeline Hulftegger -- International Gothic style / Charles Sterling -- Middle class realism in the 15th century -- Flemish realism and its expansion / Charles Sterling -- Later 15th century in Germany and the Iberian Peninsula / Adeline Hulftegger -- Historical summary / Adeline Hulftegger, Jean Charles Moreux and Evelyn King -- 2. The Italian Renaissance and the ideal of beauty -- Art forms and society / René Huyghe -- The Quattrocento / Eugenio Battisti -- Historical summary / Adeline Hulftegger, Jean Charles Moreux and Evelyn King -- The Italian cinquecento and idealism / Giulio Carlo Argan -- The Cinquecento in Venice / Rodolfo Palluchini -- Beginnings of the Renaissance outside of Italy -- France, Flanders and England / Pierre Pradel -- Germany between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance / Adeline Hulftegger -- Historical summary / Adeline Hulftegger, Jean Charles Moreux and Evelyn King -- 3. The later Renaissance -- Art forms and society / René Huyghe -- Mannerism in the 16th century -- The first Italian mannerism and the new conception of reality / Rodolfo Palluchini -- Mannerism in Northern Europe and the school of Fontainebleau / Jean Babelon -- The development of Italian mannerism after 1550 / Lionello Venturi -- Realism and the first classical and Baroque trends -- Realism and classicism in Italy / Lionello Venturi -- The golden age of Spain, Portugal and the Americas / José Camón Aznar -- Catholic and Baroque Flanders / Paul Fierens -- Realism in the Protestant and bourgeois countries / Marcel Brion -- French classicism and its prolongation / Jacques Combe -- Historical summary / Sylvie Beguin, Liliane Brion-Guerry, Lydie Huyghe, Gisèle Polaillon-Kerven, Evelyn King, and Emily Evershed -- 4. Baroque Art -- Art forms and society / René Huyghe -- From the Roman Baroque to the German rococo / Jacques Vanuxem -- The Iberian Baroque and the new world / Germain Bazin -- The quest for individuality / Marcel Brion -- Historical summary / Liliane Brion-Guerry, Lydie, Huygie, Gisèle Polaillon-Kerven, Evelyn King, and Emily Evershed -- Index. |
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Also issued online. |
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Art, Renaissance -- Encyclopedias.
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Art, Baroque -- Encyclopedias.
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| Added Title |
Art et l'homme. English
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Art and mankind.
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