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Illinois. He continued his career as Adjunct Professor of History at the College. of DuPage and Adjunct Assistant Professor of History Education at Illinois. John M. Schmalbach, Ed.D., taught Advanced Placement® U.S. History. and was Social Studies Department head at Abraham Lincoln High School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The Akropolis 128 The Parthenon 129 The Propylaia and the Erechtheion 135 The Temple of Athena Nike 137 The Athenian Agora 137 City Plans 138 Stele Sculpture 139 Painting 140. The laTe classical period, c. 400–323 bce 141. Sculpture 142 The Art of the Goldsmith 145 Painting and Mosaics 145.
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Global perspectives through an open-access multimedia "textbook" for the 21st century. Reframing Art History, an open-access multimedia art history "textbook," gives you a guided journey through the living, breathing, meaningful side of art history. We’re less concerned with names and dates than with meaning and movement.
1. Art, Italian – Italy – Florence. 2. Art, Renaissance – Italy – Florence. I. Ames-Lewis, Francis, 1943– II. Title. III. Series. n6921.f7f49 2011 709.45 511 –dc22 2011002721 isbn 978-0-521-85162-6 Hardback Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of urls for
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- Adrienne Atwell, Independent Scholar
- Andrea Bolland, University of Nebraska–Lincoln
- Roger J. Crum, University of Dayton
- Nicholas Eckstein, Cassasmarca Lecturer in Italian Renaissance History, University of Sydney
- Patricia Emison, University of New Hampshire
- Robert W. Gaston, La Trobe University
- Philip Gavitt, Saint Louis University
- Michael Lingohr, Universität Bern
- Sarah Blake McHam, Rutgers University
- Stephen J. Milner, University of Bristol
- John T. Paoletti,Wesleyan University
- David Rosenthal, Independent Scholar
- Sharon T. Strocchia, Emory University
- Anabel Thomas, Independent Scholar
- Natalie Tomas, Monash University
- Saundra Weddle, Drury University
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Nicholas Eckstein The Palace and Villa as Spaces of Patrician
Having studied architecture as an undergraduate and art history as a graduate student,Adrienne Atwell has contributed more than thirty reconstruction draw-ings of Florentine urban architecture to publications in the field.She has taught at New York University at Washington Square and at theVilla La Pietra in Flor-ence,and she has lectured at the Me...
Andrea Bolland has published articles on the relationship between Italian art and art theory from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century.
A former holder of the Graul Chair in Arts and Languages at his university, Roger J. Crum has been a Samuel H. Kress Foundation Fellow at the Kunst-historisches Institut in Florence,a Fellow at the Newberry Library,and a mem-ber of the Institute for Advanced Study.In addition to articles on subjects rang-ing from the politics of art in Renaissance ...
Nicholas Eckstein is the author of The District of the Green Dragon:Neighbourhood Life and Social Change in Renaissance Florence. He is editor of a volume of collect-ed essays on the Brancacci Chapel in Florence and is currently writing a mono-graph on the same subject.He is coeditor of the Journal of Religious History. xiii xiv C ontributors
Currently Patricia Emison is working on an exhibition of sixteenth-century Ital-ian prints and a manuscript on questions of art-historical methodology.She has recently published an essay on “Raphael’s Multiples”in The Cambridge Compan-ion to Raphael, edited by Marcia B.Hall,and the book Creating the “Divine”Artist: From Dante to Michelangelo. Her p...
A recipient of fellowships from the Harvard University Center for Italian Re-naissance Studies (Villa I Tatti) and the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art in Washington,D.C.,Robert Gaston teaches in the Art History Program at La Trobe University,where he specializes in Italian medieval and Renaissance art and...
Currently Associate Professor of History as well as the founding director of the Saint Louis University Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Philip Gavitt has been a Leopold Schepp Fellow and a visiting professor at the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies (Villa I Tatti).He has also re-ceived fellowships from the Ameri...
Michael Lingohr has been a Fellow of the Gerda Henkel Stiftung in Düsseldorf, the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence, and the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft at C ontributors xv the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome.He has also served as an assistant curator at the Staatsgalerie in Stuttgart.In addition to articles on Florentine Renaissance sculpture and a...
Sarah Blake McHam has been a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and the winner of awards from the American Philosophical Society, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, and the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation.She has written several books and numerous articles on fifteenth- and sixteenth-cen...
Stephen J.Milner is Senior Lecturer in Italian at the University of Bristol.He is editor of At the Margins: Minority Groups in Premodern Italy, coeditor of Artistic Exchange and Cultural Translation in the Italian Renaissance City, and was a Fellow at the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies (Villa I Tatti). He is currently com...
Professor of Art History and the William R.Kenan Professor of the Humanities at Wesleyan University, John T. Paoletti is the coauthor (with Gary M. Radke) of Art in Renaissance Italy, now in its third edition.He has also written on Medici artistic patronage during the fifteenth century and is now completing a book on Michelangelo’s David. He is a f...
David Rosenthal has written on class and public ritual in early ducal Florence and is presently working on a comprehensive study of neighborhood in the early modern city.
Sharon Strocchia teaches history and women’s studies at Emory University.She is the author of Death and Ritual in Renaissance Florence and has published nu-merous essays on women,religion,and society in Renaissance Italy.A recipient of fellowships from the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Stud-ies (Villa I Tatti) and the National H...
Recently retired from Bickbeck College,University of London,Anabel Thomas lives in Italy and is currently pursuing research into female monasticism in south-ern Tuscany during the early modern period, following the recent publication of her Art and Piety in the Female Religious Communities of Renaissance Italy:Iconog-raphy,Space,and the Religious W...
Natalie Tomas has researched women and gender in Renaissance Florence for many years and published, among other works, The Medici Women: Gender and Power in Renaissance Florence and “A Positive Novelty”:Women and Public Life in Renaissance Florence.Her current research is on Maria Salviati de’Medici’s gen-dered literary memorialization at the court...
Saundra Weddle is Assistant Professor in the Department of Art and Art History and the Hammons School of Architecture at Drury University. She has pub-lished articles in the Journal of Architectural Education and in the book Architecture and the Politics of Gender in Early Modern Europe, edited by Helen Hills. She is preparing an edited and annotat...
Feb 26, 2020 · The Art of Florence. 2 vols. New York: Abbeville Press, 1988. Lavishly illustrated pictorial history of the city of Florence and its architecture, painting, and sculpture in two mammoth volumes illustrated with seven hundred plates, most in color. Covers briefly Florentine medieval art but focuses on Florence from 1200 to 1600.
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Oil on panel, 38.1 × 37cm (15 × 141⁄2 in). National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. when Vasari identified the history of art almost entirely with the history of art in Florence … he was not only prompted by a parochial patriotism. He was writing the history of the new game that had actually sprung up in Florence.
