Art and Life in Renaissance Venice

Download or read book Art and Life in Renaissance Venice written by Patricia Fortini Brown and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 2003-06-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through close examination of Renaissance paintings, drawings, book illustrations, and other art works, Patricia Fortini Brown brings fourteenth--fifteenth century Venice alive. She explores the role of the guilds and the nobility, the unique island setting, the environment of the church and the private home, the political rivalries with other states, the taste for symbols and metaphorsNthe myriad qualities that made Venice distinct and its art unique. Carefully interweaving art-historical analysis of individual works (both famous and little-known) with rich contextual discussions, she reveals a culture of high beauty, artifice, and craftsmanship.