New Light on Old Masters: Studies in the Art of the Renaissance 4 (Studies in the Art of the Renaissance)

In this fourth volume of his Studies in the art of the Renaissance, Professor Gombrich has bought new evidence from a fresh reading of texts and documents to bear on the interpretation of the work and personality of some of the leading artists of the Italian Renaissance- Giotto, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael. Giulio Romano, and Michelangelo. These classic studies on the interpretation of images are essential reading for all students of Renaissance art; they also take their rightful place as seminal texts that have themselves helped to shape the evolving discipline of art history. Many of the essays focus on the greatest artists of the Renaissance -- notably Botticelli, Leonardo, Raphael and Michelangelo -- and all reflect the author's deep and abiding concern with standards, values and problems of method. Yet Gombrich never loses sight of the works of art he is investigating, and he brings to all his analyses and interpretations an original and powerful intelligence, unfailing clarity of expression and immense learning.These four volumes have a permanent value and represent a vitally important humanistic tradition in scholarship and criticism. 191 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : 26 cm Includes index Giotto's portrait of Dante? -- Leonardo on the science of painting : towards a commentary on the Trattato della Pittura -- Leonardo and the magicians : polemics and rivalry -- Ideal and type in Italian Renaissance painting -- Raphael : a quincentennial address -- The ecclesiastical significance of Raphael's Transfiguration -- That rare Italian master : Giulio Romano, court architect, painter and impresario -- Architecture and rhetoric in Giulio Romano's Palazzo del Te -- Michelangelo's cartoon in the British museum Includes index