Author: Ames-Lewis, Francis and Mary Rogers
Title: Concepts of Beauty in Renaissance Art
Description: Aldershot, Hants, England/ Brookfield, VT, USA, Ashgate, 1998. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards with silver spine lettering; xvi, 241 pp; bw illustrations. Contents: Introduction / Elizabeth Cropper -- The biological basis of Renaissance aesthetics / John Onians -- The perception of beauty in landscape in the quattrocento / Alison Cole -- 'Condecenti et netti .. ': beauty, dress and gender in Italian Renaissance art / Jane Bridgeman -- Giovanni Sabadino degli Arienti and a practical definition of magnificence in the context of Renaissance architecture / Rupert Shepherd -- Beauty as an aesthetic and artistic ideal in late fifteenth-century Florence / David Hemsoll -- Defining the beautiful in early Renaissance Germany / Andrew Morrall -- The artist as beauty / Mary Rogers -- 'La più bella e meglio lavorata opera': beauty and good design in Italian Renaissance architecture / Georgia Clarke -- Poetry in motion: beauty in movement and the Renaissance conception of leggiadrìa / Sharon Fermor -- Resplendent vessels: Parmigianino at work in the Steccata / Mary Vaccaro -- Michelangelo's Christian neoplatonic aesthetic of beauty in his early oeuvre: the nuditas virtualis image / Joanne Snow-Smith -- Venetian glass and Renaissance self-fashioning / Paul Hills -- Vasari's interpretation of female beauty / Liana De Girolami Cheney -- The notion of beauty in Francesco Bocchi's Bellezze della città di Fiorenza, I / Thomas Frangenberg -- The notion of beauty in Francesco Bocchi's Bellezze della città di Fiorenza, II / Robert Williams. VG- (ex-library with stamps and labels on dj spine, block, inside front and rear covers, title page. Book is otherwise clean and tight.) .

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