A Companion to Renaissance and Baroque Art

<p><i>A Companion to Renaissance and Baroque Art</i> provides a diverse, fresh collection of accessible, comprehensive essays addressing key issues for European art produced between 1300 and 1700, a period that might be termed the beginning of modern history.<ul><li>Presents a collection of original, in-depth essays from art experts that address various aspects of European visual arts produced from circa 1300 to 1700<li>Divided into five broad conceptual headings: Social-Historical Factors in Artistic Production; Creative Process and Social Stature of the Artist; The Object: Art as Material Culture; The Message: Subjects and Meanings; and The Viewer, the Critic, and the Historian: Reception and Interpretation as Cultural Discourse<li>Covers many topics not typically included in collections of this nature, such as Judaism and the arts, architectural treatises, the global...<p><i>The EPUB format of this title may not be compatible for use on all handheld devices.</i></p>