Product Description: This book takes a new look at the interpretations of, and the historical information surrounding, Michelangelo's David. New documentary materials discovered by Rolf Bagemihl add to the early history of the stone block that became the David and provide an identity for the painted terracotta colossus that stood on the cathedral buttresses for which Michelangelo's statue was to be a companion...read more

Product Description: This book examines the social history of Florence during the critical period of its growth and development in the early modern period, from the fourteenth through sixteenth centuries. Treating the city, its art, and its rituals as lived experiences that extended through space and time, the contributors to this volume consider well-known objects, monuments, sites, and events in the vivifying context of a variety of spaces, which are here understood as a dimension of physical, psychological, religious, and political perceptions for the city of Florence during the Renaissance...read more

Product Description: La obra de Paoletti y Radke ofrece una completa visión del arte en Italia desde mediados del siglo XIII hasta finales del XVI. Sin olvidar sus cualidades formales, las obras se presentan como el fruto de un rico entramado de relaciones sociales, económicas y culturales, en el que comitentes y mecenas, adquieren articular r...read more

Product Description: Looks at Italian Renaissance art and society and documents the people and places of this age.

This collection of breathtaking, classic images spans three centuries of Italian art, integrating social and art history to provide context for this compelling presentation of Renaissance painting.