Renaissance Art Reconsidered An Anthology of Primary Sources

Renaissance Art Reconsidered: An Anthology of Primary Sources offers an intimate glimpse into the reality of making art, and the geographical, material and theoretical factors that shaped artistic production between 1400 and 1530. This book widens the traditional Italian focus of Renaissance art history, considering texts from northern Europe and the Mediterranean alongside texts relating to Italian art. Unprecedented in its range, this collection brings together a wide variety of contracts, extracts from treatises, letters, diaries, wills and other important documents, many of which are translated into English for the first time, to provide crucial insight into the art and the context in which it was produced.Franklin, Michael W. is the author of 'Renaissance Art Reconsidered An Anthology of Primary Sources', published 2007 under ISBN 9781405146418 and ISBN 1405146419.