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Renaissance rivals

Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael, Titian

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An edition of Renaissance Rivals (2002)

Renaissance rivals

Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael, Titian

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"For the great Renaissance masters, the creation of art was not only an intellectual or aesthetic exercise. It was a contest. The artists of sixteenth-century Italy knew each other's work, knew each other's patrons, and knew each other - sometimes as friends and colleagues, sometimes as enemies, but always as rivals. This book views the lives and greatest works of Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael, and Titian through the prism of their ardent rivalry.

Rona Goffen, one of the most highly respected scholars of the Italian Renaissance today, brings the artists to life in this lively account of their impassioned strivings to outdo both living competitors and the masters of antiquity.".

"Quoting from poems, letters, treatises, contracts, and other contemporary writings, the author demonstrates the extent to which artists, as well as their patrons and colleagues, characteristically thought about art in the context of rivalry. Renaissance patrons often stipulated in contracts with artists that their commissions be more beautiful than works made for other patrons. The artists themselves competed for commissions.

Goffen brings into sharp focus the immediacy, intensity, and complexity of artistic rivalry among the Renaissance masters, recovering for us the emotional and professional circumstances that brought about their magnificent creations."--BOOK JACKET.

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English
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521

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Renaissance Rivals: Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael, Titian
August 11, 2004, Yale University Press
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November 1, 2002, Yale University Press
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Table of Contents

Preamble. Imitatio and renovatio
Agon
Paragoni
Protagonist. Michelangelo
Antagonists. Leonardo
Raphael
Titian
Coda. Bandinelli and Cellini.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [478]-496) and index.

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New Haven [Conn.]

Classifications

Library of Congress
N6915 .G54 2002, N6915.G54 2002

The Physical Object

Pagination
viii, 521 p. :
Number of pages
521

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL23240308M
Internet Archive
renaissancerival0000goff
ISBN 10
0300094345
LCCN
2002001026
OCLC/WorldCat
48876514
Library Thing
548153

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