The Lies of the Artists
Essays on Italian Art, 1450-1750
$60.64
- Paperback
248 pages
- Release Date
21 January 2025
Summary
Luminous essays on artists of the Italian Renaissance by one of our most inspired writers on the history and making of art.
In the three centuries from 1450 to 1750 painters, sculptors, and architects emerged from the medieval craft guilds of Italy to claim a new social status as creators, whose gorgeous handiwork, now called “art,” expressed lofty inspiration as much as manual skill. In The Lies of the Artists, Ingrid Rowland takes us into the world of these artists, and int…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262549097 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262549093 |
| Author: | Ingrid D. Rowland |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 248 |
| Release Date: | 21 January 2025 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 178mm x 114mm |
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Critics Review
“Rowland’s prose is clever and tone humorous, as she brings fresh observations to this often over-studied art period and resuscitates the reputation of others overlooked by history.”
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About The Author
Ingrid D. Rowland
Ingrid D. Rowland is Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. She is the author of numerous books, including Giordano Bruno and From Pompeii, and was the inaugural winner of the Grace Dudley Prize for Arts Writing in 2021. She is a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books.
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