Artistic Practices and Cultural Transfer in Early Modern Italy

Name: Artistic Practices and Cultural Transfer in Early Modern Italy
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Showcasing both the diversity within and the porosity between the \u2019center\u2019 and \u2019periphery\u2019 in Renaissance art, this volume explores the material mechanisms for the transmission and evolution of ideas, artistic training and networks, as well as the dynamics of collaboration and exchange between artists, theorists and patrons. The chapters, each with a wealth of groundbreaking research and previously unpublished documentary evidence, as well as innovative methodologies, offer new interpretations of Italian art. > For too long, the \u2019centre\u2019 of the Renaissance has been considered to be Rome and the art produced in, or inspired by it. This collection of essays dedicated to Deborah Howard brings together an impressive group of internationally recognised scholars of art and architecture to showcase both the diversity within and the porosity between the \u2019centre\u2019 and \u2019periphery\u2019 in Renaissance art. Without abandoning Rome, but together with.