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Metropolitan Museum of Art: the Renaissance in Italy and Spain, 1st Ed

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art: The Renaissance in Italy and Spain. Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, 1987. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. Toward the middle of the thirteenth century, a revolution in perception and expression occurred in southern Europe. Philosophy and art, which for centuries had been preoccupied by the mysteries of the Christian faith, began to turn to the beauties of life on earth. Faith, of course, remained firm, and thinkers and artists still took their themes from the Old and New Testaments and the writings of the Church Fathers. But as men and women began to ponder not the next life, but this one, the manner of artistic expression came to reflect this new attention to the form of man himself and the appearance of his physical environment. Compared to the largely liturgical art of the Middle-Ages, the art of what we now call the Renaissance developed a human face: The fiat spaces of devotional art deepened to include the recognizable landscapesin which people lived. Stylized faces and figures became more individualized, and the infinite range of human emotion began to be explored, at first, still in terms of biblical stories, and later, in terms both of classical stories and contemporary portraiture. The principles of this new, representational art became the foundations of modern European expression, and the achievements of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Italy shaped all subsequent art well into the nineteenth century. NPT Books a division of N.P. Trent Antiques has a large collection of used and out of print books on art, architecture, decoration and antiques with a focus on 1st editions, signed and limited editions.

Dimensions:

Height: 12.25 in (31.12 cm)Width: 9.5 in (24.13 cm)Depth: 1 in (2.54 cm)

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Paper

Place of Origin:

United States

Period:

1980-1989

Date of Manufacture:

1987

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