Art & Life in Renaissance Venice (Trade Version)

By Patricia Fortini Brown

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810927470
• ISBN13: 9780810927476
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.6" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Art as a political and social tool

Patricia Brown's Art and Life in Renaissance Venice provides an interesting analysis of what made Venice artistically and politically different from the other Italian city-states. Brown argues that Venetian "otherness" made its art distinguishable from the art of other Renaissance states. Venice's political and social stability impacted the nature of both art and architecture. Venetian art reflected these and in so doing promoted traditional social and political attitudes. The strength of Brown's work is the impressive artwork included in the text. The art is used quite convincingly by Brown to show how artists adapted to the demands of the Venetian public.

Fantastic !

This little paperback is packed with great information and great pictures. A must have for anyone interested in Renaissance Venice, it's well-organized and very easy to read.

well-written, readable work on High Venetian art

This book is a great introdcution to Venetian art of the Renaissance, through its views of the major artists of the time (the Bellinis, Titian, Pollaiuolo, Veronese, etc.), but it incorporates enough social, religious, and political history that one not only gets a more-well rounded view of the Venice of the Renaissance, but also is not bogged down in excessive stylistic analysis. This makes Brown's work a wonderful introduction to the Venetian novice, which many amateur art-historians caught up with Florence and Rome (myself included) tend to be.