An anthology of painters and paintings which includes contemporary accounts of Watteau, Monet, Rubens, the final meeting between Reynolds and Gainsborough, and many others. There are reflections by painters on creativity and the tribulations of the creative life. It includes Constable's remarks on a de Hooch painting which has been presented to him, Matisse's summary of his creative vision and art dealer Rene Gimpel's contrast of Fra Angelico and Gentile de Fabriano.

Soul of the Eye

Arts & Photography

LEVEY, Michael

History & Criticism

Collins

High Renaissance artists, considered as the interpreters of a divinely inspired energy, and many of their creations are examined individually and collectively. With the aid of more than 150 illustrations, Michael Levy demonstrates the unparalleled virtuosity of an extraordinarily fertile era.

High Renaissance (Style and Civilization)

Architecture

Penguin??Books

The Early Renaissance was dominated by the optimism with which man had begun to view himself and the cosmos. The world was no longer seen as a mass of unmanageable, unruly chaos but as a universe harmoniously planned and arranged by God. God was still at the centre, but mankind also had its rightful place, with the potential not only to fall but also to rise to divinity. Man's growing self-awareness is expressed in the painting of the time by a concern for clarity and realism, a desire to discover the underlying truth of the cosmos and to explore the splendour of the human form. In his book, Michael Levey discusses this age, from the art of Jan Van Eyck, Piero della Francesca and Ghirlandaio, through to Botticelli and the sharper psychological insights of Leonardo Da Vinci, whose work crystallized Early Renaissance ideals and projected the achievements of the Renaissance into the stormy brilliance of the next century.

Early Renaissance (Style and Civilization)

History

Americas

320p large paperback, index, bibliography, notes, many plates, nice fresh copy, 1977 printing

French artistic and cultural history of the 18th century.

The Art and Architecture of the Eighteenth Century in France

Kalnein, Wend Graf

A discussion of Western painting describing the Renaissance, 17th century painting, and the Rococo and Romantic periods

A Concise History of Painting, from Giotto to Cezanne

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

A basic premise of the book is that the social sciences offer a perspective that is essential for anyone desiring a well-rounded education. American education is returning to fundamentals and should include the social sciences as well as language and mathematics.

History of Western Art

Oxford Univ. Press

Offers an in-depth study of one of the most famous cities in the world. The author sketches the physical evolution of Florence over the centuries, considers art objects of all kinds, from a tiny cameo to a building, and describes some of the personalities who have contributed to the city's renown.

Florence

Harvard University Press

This deliverately concise history is something of a tour de force, intended to stimulate the expert as well as to guide the layman. Throughout, it is motivated by the author's belief in art as a vital activity and, therefore, as something that-in the words that open and close the book-has not ceased to be produced." Not a bare factual outline, it concentrates on individual works of art, whether a Minoan statuette, a Gothic reliquary, or a Raphael portrait. What is told is, in effect, the story of Western man's creative energy constantly finding new ways to fill the world with non-natural objects. The author imposes no arbitrary pattern or simple explanation but, rather, emphasies the novel element of suprise in every work of art that has often disconcerted people at first sight-long before nineteenth-and twentieth-century controversies about modern art. The result is a book that does justice to major styles and many artists over the whole course of Western art and also communicates a sense of the author's own enjoyment in looking at works of art of every kind.

A History of Western Art

W.W.Norton&Company

The life and death of Mozart

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Weidenfeld&Nicolson

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Soul of the Eye

High Renaissance (Style and Civilization)

Early Renaissance (Style and Civilization)

High Renaissance (Style and Civilization)

The Art and Architecture of the Eighteenth Century in France

A Concise History of Painting, from Giotto to Cezanne

History of Western Art

Florence

A History of Western Art

The life and death of Mozart