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Humfrey, Peter and Martin Kemp - The Altarpiece in the Renaissance

Title: The Altarpiece in the Renaissance
Description: Cambridge, England/ New York, Cambridge University Press, 1990. Hardcover. Orange, color-illustrated dustjacket over orangish cloth, gilt lettering. Mylar cover; xiv, 273 pp. 1 color, 149+ bw plates. Contents as follows: Some thoughts on writing a history of Sienese altarpieces / H.W. van Os -- The Renaissance altarpiece : a valid category? / Paul Hills -- The northern altarpiece as a cultural document / Craig Harbison -- The Netherlandish carved altarpiece c. 1500 : type and function / Kim Woods -- Reform within the cult image : the German winged altarpiece before the Reformation / Bernhard Decker -- Appropriation and application : the significance of the sources of Michael Pacher's altarpieces / Mark Evans -- Fra Bartolomeo's Carondelet altarpiece and the theme of the "Virgo in nubibus" in the High Renaissance / André Chastel -- "Divinità di cosa dipinta" : pictorial structure and the legibility of the altarpiece / David Rosand.; From cult images to the cult of images : the case of Raphael's altarpieces / Sylvia Ferino Pagden -- Co-ordinated altarpieces in Renaissance Venice : the progress of an ideal / Peter Humfrey -- The relationship of El Greco's altarpieces to the mass of the Roman rite / David Davies -- The altarpiece in Catholic Europe : post-Tridentine transformations / A.D. Wright. VG-/VG- (Ex-library with stamps and labels on spine, inside front and rear covers, ffep and block.) .

Keywords: Altarpieces; Religious Art; Renaissance ; Renaissance Art ; Religious Art ; Renaissance

Price: US$ 120.00 Seller: Kevin Mullen, Bookseller
- Book number: 186116

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