Painting Architecture in early Renaissance Italy

Immagine dell'editore per Painting Architecture in Early Renaissance Italy (Hardcover) Painting Architecture in Early Renaissance Italy (Hardcover) Livia Lupi Editore: Harvey Miller, 2024 ISBN 10: 191548703X / ISBN 13: 9781915487032 Lingua: Inglese Contatta il venditore Nuovo - Rilegato Condizione: new EUR 160 Quantità: 1 disponibili Hardcover. Condizione: new. Hardcover. Why did artists include prominent architectural settings in their narrative paintings? Why did they labour over specific, highly innovative structural solutions? Why did they endeavour to design original ornamental motifs which brought together sculptural, painterly and architectural approaches, as well as showcasing their understanding of materiality? Painting Architecture in Early Renaissance Italy addresses these questions in order to shed light on the early exchanges between artistic and architectural practice in Italy, arguing that architecture in painting provided a unique platform for architectural experimentation. Rather than interpreting architectural settings as purely spatial devices and as lesser counterparts of their built cognates, this book emphasises their intrinsic value as designs as well as communicative tools, contending that the architectural imagination of artists was instrumental in redefining the status of architectural forms as a kind of cultural currency. Exploring the nexus between innovation and persuasion, Livia Lupi highlights an early form of little-discussed paragone between painting and architecture which relied on a shared understanding of architectural invention as a symbol of prestige. This approach offers a precious insight into how architectural forms were perceived and deployed, be they two or three-dimensional, at the same time clarifying the intersection of architecture and the figural arts in the work of later, influential figures like Giuliano da Sangallo, Raphael, Michelangelo and Baldassarre Peruzzi, whose work would not have been possible without the architectural experimentation of early fifteenth-century artists. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.