Marietta Cambareri
Author
Publisher
MFA Publications
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Strong Women in Renaissance Italy explores women's live from the fourteenth to early seventeenth centuries by drawing on a wide range of artworks: paintings, prints, and sculptures, as well as velvet panels, illustrated books, embroideries, woven narrative images, and even a box decorated with cut straw that emulates gold. By asking new questions and reflecting on new approaches to the study of the Italian Renaissance, this book and the exhibition...
Author
Publisher
MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts Boston
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The glazed terra-cotta technique invented by Luca della Robbia, along with his exceptional skill as a sculptor, placed him firmly in the first rank of Renaissance artists in the fifteenth century. The Della Robbia studio produced dazzling multicolored ornaments for major Florentine buildings, delicately modeled and ingeniously constructed freestanding statues, serene blue-and-white devotional reliefs for domestic use, charming portraits of children...
Author
Series
Publisher
MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The tremendous political, religious, and cultural changes that swept across Europe in the years from 1000 to 1800 fundamentally transformed the practices and purposes of painting and sculpture--from elaborately carved and gilded medieval Christian altars to Renaissance self-portraits touting the skill of the artist to eighteenth-century penetrating portraits in marble of the era's leading thinkers. The one hundred highlights from the impressive European...
