THE INTELLECTUAL LIFE OF THE EARLY RENAISSANCE ARTIST by Francis Ames-Lewis ( 9780300092950 )

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THE INTELLECTUAL LIFE OF THE EARLY RENAISSANCE ARTIST

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Paperback

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ISBN 10:

0300092954

ISBN 13:

9780300092950

Publisher:

YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

1 February, 2002

Pages:

324

Description:

Early Renaissance artists gradually gained respect for their work. This text explores how Mantegna, da Vinci, Raphael, Durer and others gained respect and artistic autonomy from their patrons by promoting the idea of the artist as a creative genius with a distinct identity and individuality.

Synopsis:

At the beginning of the fifteenth century, painters and sculptors were seldom regarded as more than artisans and craftsmen, but within little more than a hundred years they had risen to the status of "artist." This book explores how early Renaissance artists gained recognition for the intellectual foundations of their activities and achieved artistic autonomy from enlightened patrons. A leading authority on Renaissance art, Francis Ames-Lewis traces the ways in which the social and intellectual concerns of painters and sculptors brought about the acceptance of their work as a liberal art, alongside other arts like poetry. He charts the development of the idea of the artist as a creative genius with a distinct identity and individuality. Ames-Lewis examines the various ways that Renaissance artists like Mantegna, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, and Durer, as well as many other less well known painters and sculptors, pressed for intellectual independence.By writing treatises, biographies, poetry, and other literary works, by seeking contacts with humanists and literary men, and by investigating the arts of the classical past, Renaissance artists honed their social graces and broadened their intellectual horizons. They also experienced a growing creative confidence and self-awareness that was expressed in novel self-portraits, works created solely to demonstrate pictorial skills, and monuments to commemorate themselves after death.

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100 b-w + 50 color illus.

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Yale University Press

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Returnable

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