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Title:

The Altarpiece in the Renaissance / edited by Peter Humfrey and Martin Kemp.

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press,

Copyright Date:

1990

Description:

xiv, 273 p. : ill. (1 col.) ; 28 cm.

Subject:

Altarpieces, Renaissance.
Christian art and symbolism--Modern, 1500-

Other Authors:

Humfrey, Peter, 1947-
Kemp, Martin.
Society for Renaissance Studies (Great Britain)

Notes:

"Based on papers given at a conference of the Society for Renaissance Studies held at the Warburg Institute and Birbeck College in London on 20-21 March 1987--P. xiii. Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-264) and index.

Contents:

(cont.) Fra Bartolomeo's Carondelet altarpiece and the theme of the "Virgo in nubibus" in the High Renaissance / André Chastel -- "Divinità di cosa dipinta ́/ David Rosand -- From cult images to the cult of images / Sylvia Ferino Pagden -- Co-ordinated altarpieces in Renaissance Venice / Peter Humfrey -- Relationship of El Greco's altarpieces to the mass of the Roman rite / David Davies -- Altarpiece in Catholic Europe / A. D. Wright.
Some thoughts on writing a history of Sienese altarpieces / H. W. van Os -- Renaissance altarpiece / Paul Hills -- Northern altarpiece as a cultural document / Craig Harbison -- Netherlandish carved altarpiece c. 1500 / Kim Woods -- Reform within the cult image / Bernhard Decker -- Appropriation and application / Mark Evans.

ISBN:

9780521360616
0521360617

LCCN:

89017416

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)