| Fra Filippo Lippi: Life and Work, with a Complete Catalogue Contributor(s): Ruda, Jeffrey (Author) |
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ISBN: 0714823627 ISBN-13: 9780714823621 Publisher: Phaidon Press OUR PRICE: $185.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 1999 Annotation: Fra Filippo Lippi (c. 1406 -- 69) is one of the greatest artists of the early Renaissance in Italy. A pioneer of psychological realism, he developed unique and daring means of representation, discarding medieval traditions about the role of colour in painting. His intensely personal, richly expressive characters are a compelling revelation of Renaissance attitudes towards human experience. Jeffrey Ruda's work, first published in 1993, was the first full-scale study of Lippi to be published for many years, and provided an important reassessment of his life and work; it also attempted to define the nature of Lippi's greatness as a portrayer of the subtleties of human feeling, and to place his achievement in the wider context of early Renaissance art. Ruda's landmark survey -- still an invaluable work of reference -- is now being reissued in an abridged paperback format, so those who do not require the full art-historical analysis of the original catalogue section can enjoy its beautiful colour plates and fascinating narrative text at an amazingly competitive price. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | Individual Artists - General - Art | History - Renaissance |
| Dewey: 759.5 |
| LCCN: 94232676 |
| Physical Information: 2.38" H x 10.42" W x 11.77" (8.02 lbs) 560 pages |
| Themes: - Theometrics - Secular - Chronological Period - 15th Century - Cultural Region - Central Europe - Cultural Region - Italy |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Fra Filippo Lippi (c.1406-69) was Boticelli's teacher and the court painter to the Medici in the 1450s and 1460s. |
