Winter 2018 Publishers
PUBLISHERS WINTER 2018 HIRMER HIGHLIGHTS From the Arno to the Isar: Exhibition highlight in Munich on Florentine Renaissance painting The pathbreaking renewal of art in Florence under the Medici Some 120 masterpieces by Giotto, Donatello, Fra Angelico, Filippo Lippi, Verrocchio, Pollaiuolo, Botticelli, Ghirlandaio, Leonardo da Vinci et al. FLORENCE AND ITS PAINTERS FROM GIOTTO TO LEONARDO DA VINCI 1 Painting re-invented itself during the 15th century in Florence. Artists experimented Ed.: Andreas Schumacher for the Bayerische in an innovative manner with pictorial subjects, forms and techniques and thus Staats gemäldesammlungen arrived at an unprecedented diversity of means of artistic expression. This volume Contributions by: M. Burioni, tells in an interesting and nuanced manner of a unique creative development which C. Campbell, D. Carl, M. W. Cole, D. Korbacher, A. Kranz, permanently changed art in Europe. W.D. Löhr, N. Nanobashvili, S. Nethersole, U. Pfisterer, By means of prestigious works of painting, sculpture and drawing the book affords N. Pons, A. Röstel, a wide range of insights into the world of ideas and the working methods of the A. Schumacher, T. Wagener Florentine artists. With new selfconfidence they investigated reality and the laws of 320 pages, 170 colour harmony and beauty. They drew from Nature and studied the art of Antiquity. Starting illustrations out from drawing and in competition with sculpture, the painters thus discovered 9 ¼ × 11 ¼ in, hardcover completely new forms for the realistic portrayal of Man, for example in the portrait, $ 49.95 as well as emotionally moving devotional pictures. The latest research on the out 9783777430621 November 2018 standing Florentine paintings in the Alte Pinakothek permits a new perspective on one of the most exciting chapters of art history.
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