This second volume in a series of three that focuses on Italian frescoes features paintings from 1470 to 1510 and includes scores of new photographs to document the brilliance of works by Botticelli, Ghirlandaio, Filippino Lippi, Mantegna, Perugino, and Signorelli in palaces and chapels stretching from the Alps to Rome. Celebrated sites such as the Tornabuoni Chapel in Florence, the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican, and the Camera degli Sposi in Mantua are explored, as well as lesser-known works, such as those in the tiny northern town of Issogne that depict fifteenth-century men and women bargaining and flirting at an outdoor market. Descriptive and interpretive essays on each of the seventeen cycles touch on all aspects of fresco painting: the artists and their patrons, cultural and historical conditions, local traditions, and technique. Each essay concludes with a diagram of the site, followed by a stunning series of full-page, full-color illustrations of the wall paintings, many of them newly restored.

464 pages, 384 illustrations (314 in full color), 11 in. x 13 in. Hardcover; clothbound, with jacket.

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Italian Frescoes, Volume II: The Flowering of the Renaissance
03-005592
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