- Hardcover: 384 pages
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press (Nov 10 2003)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0521662966
- ISBN-13: 978-0521662963
- Product Dimensions: 23.5 x 16.4 x 2.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 839 g
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"...highly recommended..." Times Literary Supplement
"The scholarly approaches range from broad social history to detailed investigations of technique; it is impossible to treat them all in detail here, but they are of exceptional quality and interest...the book is also useful for its treatment of the historiography of the artist by tracing key issues in Bellini scholarship and his shifting critical fortunes. All the authors are sensitive to the book's dual audience of specialists and students." CAA Reviews, Maria Ruvoldt
"The scholarly approaches range from broad social history to detailed investigations of technique; it is impossible to treat them all in detail here, but they are of exceptional quality and interest...the book is also useful for its treatment of the historiography of the artist by tracing key issues in Bellini scholarship and his shifting critical fortunes. All the authors are sensitive to the book's dual audience of specialists and students." CAA Reviews, Maria Ruvoldt
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This Companion brings together commissioned essays focusing on important topics and themes of the career of Giovanni Bellini, the dominant painter of Early Renaissance Venice. The contributions consider Bellini's position in the social and professional life of early modern Venice, and reassess his artistic relationships with his brother-in-law Mantegna, Flemish painting, and the "modern style" that emerged in Italy around 1500. They also explore his original approaches to sculpture and architecture, and landscape and color.
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Serious Consideration of Bellini, Feb 29 2008
By Nicola Linza "Sig. Nicola Giacomo A.G. (Aluig... - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Cambridge Companion to Giovanni Bellini (Hardcover)
This organized and well illustrated volume edited by Peter Humfrey is a scholarly comprehensive study of Giovanni Bellini's intriguing and sometimes problematic Italian masterworks of art. Today recognized as one of the greatest Renaissance artists to come from Italy, Giovanni Bellini was in his day one of the dominant painters of the Early Renaissance.This collective publication includes serious consideration of Bellini's social and professional life which establishes him in early modern Venice. There is an interesting (and sure to be groundbreaking) reassessment of his artistic relationship with his brother-in-law Mantegna, as well as his relationship to Flemish painting.
A fascinating examination is also presented of his relationship with the new style of art that emerged in Italy around 1500. What sets this volume apart from previous scholarly studies of Bellini's work is the coming together of these unique and interesting social and professional factors.
Bellini's approach to sculpture and architecture is studied in-depth, and detailed, and the study of Bellini's breathtaking use of color and landscape, traditionally elements recognized as central to his renowned pictorial genius, (and central to his constantly evolving pictorial technique,) is nothing short of brilliant.
Including an impressive 384 pages and 114 half-tones this complete examination of Bellini concludes with chapters focusing directly on his not often examined drawings and collaborators. There have been many studies of Bellini over the years but in this highly enlightening publication important commissioned essays finally come together to focus on significant topics and themes central (and pivotal) to Bellini's career. This is the art volume of the season. A superb compliment to a fine art library collection which is sure to be a sought after collectable work in the very near future. Highly recommended.
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A classic study of a timeless master, Feb 24 2012
By William J. Havlicek, PhD - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: The Cambridge Companion to Giovanni Bellini (Paperback)
The Cambridge Comapanion to Bellini is one of those books every serious art thinker should own. Logically organized and with a sprite and elegant prose style one enters the world of Venetian art and Bellini's world or what we can construct from the existing historical facts. This read will always be an important one because the research is strong and convincing. William Havlicek PhD.
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