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The Lies of the Artists
Ingrid D. Rowland
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Description for The Lies of the Artists
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Luminous essays on artists of the Italian Renaissance by one of our most inspired writers on the history and making of art. In the three centuries from 1450 to 1750 painters, sculptors, and architects emerged from the medieval craft guilds of Italy to claim a new social status as creators, whose gorgeous handiwork, now called 'art,' expressed lofty inspiration as much as manual skill. In The Lies of the Artists, Ingrid Rowland takes us into the world of these artists, and into their seemingly miraculous ways of transforming transcendent ideas into tangible works of art that challenged and redefined ... Read more
Luminous essays on artists of the Italian Renaissance by one of our most inspired writers on the history and making of art. In the three centuries from 1450 to 1750 painters, sculptors, and architects emerged from the medieval craft guilds of Italy to claim a new social status as creators, whose gorgeous handiwork, now called 'art,' expressed lofty inspiration as much as manual skill. In The Lies of the Artists, Ingrid Rowland takes us into the world of these artists, and into their seemingly miraculous ways of transforming transcendent ideas into tangible works of art that challenged and redefined ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2024
Publisher
MIT
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780262549097
SKU
V9780262549097
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Ref
99-67
About Ingrid D. Rowland
Ingrid D. Rowland is Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. She is the author of numerous books, including Giordano Bruno and From Pompeii, and was the inaugural winner of the Grace Dudley Prize for Arts Writing in 2021. She is a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books.
Reviews for The Lies of the Artists
“Rowland’s prose is clever and tone humorous, as she brings fresh observations to this often over-studied art period and resuscitates the reputation of others overlooked by history.” —OBSERVER