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The author presents a concise survey of painting in Italy from Giotto's early Florentine humanism through the High Renaissance and later schools, examining stylistic shifts, regional traditions, and principal masters. Chapters follow the rise of naturalism and narrative clarity in Florence, the persistence of medieval traits in Siena, the innovations of Masaccio, Fra Filippo Lippi, Botticelli, Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and the distinct Venetian developments culminating in Titian, then the later realists and eclectics. Technical aims, aesthetic principles, and civic and religious contexts are discussed, with critical observations, notes on contested points, and practical reading and study hints geared to beginners and travelers.

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Title: A history of Italian painting

Author: Frank Jewett Mather

Release date: January 20, 2023 [eBook #69844]
Most recently updated: October 19, 2024

Language: English

Original publication: United Kingdom: Stanley Paul, 1923

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BOOKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR
HISTORY OF ITALIAN PAINTING IN THE RENAISSANCE
THE COLLECTORS
HOMER MARTIN, POET IN LANDSCAPE
ESTIMATES IN ART
THE PORTRAITS OF DANTE

GIOTTO: DORMITION OF THE VIRGIN

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A HISTORY OF
ITALIAN PAINTING

By
FRANK JEWETT MATHER, Jr.
PH.D., L.H.D.
Professor of Art and Archaeology in Princeton University
LONDON
STANLEY PAUL & CO., LTD.
31, Essex Street, Strand, W. C. 2
1923
Printed in the United States of America
To
B. B.
In Friendship