{"product_id":"early-italian-painting-joseph-archer-crowe-9781646995271","title":"Early Italian Painting: From Giotto to Fra Angelico: the birth of perspective","description":"\u003cp\u003eOscillating between the majesty of the Greco-Byzantine tradition and the modernity predicted by Giotto, Early Italian Painting addresses the first important aesthetic movement that would lead to the Renaissance, the Italian Primitives. Trying new mediums and techniques, these revolutionary artists no longer painted frescoes on walls, but created the first mobile paintings on wooden panels. The visages of the figures were painted to shock the spectator in order to emphasise the divinity of the character being represented. The bright gold leafed backgrounds were used to highlight the godliness of the subject. The elegance of both line and colour were combined to reinforce specific symbolic choices. Ultimately the Early Italian artists wished to make the invisible - visible. In this magnificent book, the authors emphasise the importance that the rivalry between the Sienese and Florentine schools played in the evolution of art history. The reader, in the course of these forgotten masterworks, will discover how the sacred began to take a more human form, opening a discrete but definitive door through the use of anthropomorphism, a technique that would be cherished by the Renaissance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joseph Archer Crowe,Anna Jameson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1646995279\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781646995271\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Parkstone Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/05\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.96lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.63h x 8.50w x 0.69d","brand":"Joseph Archer Crowe","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48114087395583,"sku":"9781646995271","price":44.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7a806455-d23a-4a70-ac85-8a5b425442a1.jpg?v=1769619034","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/early-italian-painting-joseph-archer-crowe-9781646995271","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}