Painting in Italy 1500-1600 - S J Freedberg - Yale HB

Painting in Italy, 1500-1600 (Yale University Press Pelican History of Art) (Hardcover) by S J Freedberg, published in 1993. Originally published by Penguin in 1971. This is the first print of the third revised edition.

'Art', declared Vasari in Lives of the Artists, has been reborn and reached perfection in our time'. Indeed the roster of great names in painting of the Cinquecento, which only begins with those of Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael, appears to justify this grand claim. Professor Freedberg here discusses the individual painters and analyses the hallmarks of their work. He traces the classical style of the High Renaissance, the Mannerism that succeeded it, and the events, in North Italy especially, that resist stylistic categories. He has given order to this diversity, but at the same time has preserved the intense individuality of the works of art.

Fine book in Fine dustjacket.

Very Heavy!