Renaissance Art Reconsidered: An Anthology of Primary Sources offers an intimate glimpse into the reality of making art, and the geographical, material and theoretical factors that shaped artistic production between 1400 and 1530. This book widens the traditional Italian focus of Renaissance art history, considering texts from northern Europe and the Mediterranean alongside texts relating to Italian art. Unprecedented in its range, this collection brings together a wide variety of contracts, extracts from treatises, letters, diaries, wills and other important documents, many of which are translated into English for the first time, to provide crucial insight into the art and the context in which it was produced.
?The text is well written and informative without being overlytechnical or employing excessive terminology.? (Association ofArt Historians2009)
?Renaissance Art Reconsidered is rich in detail and broadin scope, but its most important accomplishment is its conveyanceof individual attitudes on the great value placed on all forms ofart. It provides a view of what was expected both throughout thecreative process and in the end result. This anthology gives usinsight into the needs and problems of the creative process of theartists, patrons, and viewers of the Renaissance.? (SixteenthCentury Journal, Winter 2008)
?Renaissance Art Reconsidered is rich in detail and broadin scope, but its most important accomplishment is its conveyanceof individual attitudes on the great value placed on all forms ofart. It provides a view of what was expected both throughout thecreative process and in the end result. This anthology gives usinsight into the needs and problems of the creative process of theartists, patrons, and viewers of the Renaissance.? (SixteenthCentury Journal, Winter 2008)