THE HIGH RENAISSANCE AND MANNERISM Italy, the North and Spain, 1500-1600
Linda Murray
The
principal elements of High Renaissance art, first formulated by Leonardo
da Vinci in the 1490s, came to their true flowering in the brilliant
achievements of Bramante, Raphael and Michelangelo in Rome, of Michelangelo
in Florence and Giorgione and Titian in Venice. After the death of
Raphael in 1520, the next generation in Italy was to see the rise
of the complex and refined sensibility summed up in the term "Mannerism."
In this uniquely comprehensive guide to sixteenth-century Renaissance
art, Linda Murray examines the manifold achievements of Italian artists
and identifies the individual forms taken by artists in Northern Europe
and in Spain, including Durer, Bruegel and El Greco.
The
principal elements of High Renaissance art, first formulated by Leonardo
da Vinci in the 1490s, came to their true flowering in the brilliant
achievements of Bramante, Raphael and Michelangelo in Rome, of Michelangelo
in Florence and Giorgione and Titian in Venice. After the death of
Raphael in 1520, the next generation in Italy was to see the rise
of the complex and refined sensibility summed up in the term "Mannerism."
In this uniquely comprehensive guide to sixteenth-century Renaissance
art, Linda Murray examines the manifold achievements of Italian artists
and identifies the individual forms taken by artists in Northern Europe
and in Spain, including Durer, Bruegel and El Greco.