Renaissance

Taschen Basic Genre

by Manfred Wundram, Ingo F. Walther (Editor)

Art as we know it today would not exist without the Renaissance. Widely considered the most influential phenomenon in European art, architecture, literature, and science, the movement revolutionized the Western conception of reality and heralded the emergence of modernity out of the Middle Ages. The Renaissance first gained momentum in Italy, at the end of the 14th century, spreading across Europe over the course of the next centuries, with dynamic epicenters in Florence, the Low Countries, and Germany. The movement found its intellectual basis in humanism, derived from classical Greek philosophy. Across art, science, literature, and politics, proponents of the Renaissance avowed that man was the “measure of all things” and determined to replace scholastic medieval confines with a revival of antiquity. Under the influence of humanism, artists advanced anatomy and geometry to reach new feats of figurative accuracy and revolutionize renderings of perspective to reflect the human experience of place in space. In Flemish painting, artists such as Bruegel brought new techniques and an everyday sensibility to landscapes and still lifes while in Germany, Dürer and Cranach pioneered an unprecedented drama and psychology in woodcut and engraving. From Florence to Nuremberg, Venice to Bruges, this essential introduction in TASCHEN’s Basic Art series provide a dependable foundation to the transformative reach and sweep of the Renaissance era. Through the movement’s famed luminaries and lesser-known proponents, its social and political circumstances, and its diversions and developments over time and geography, we take in an extraordinary phenomenon, transformative centuries of change that proffered individual genius, regional variety, and a wholesale reconfiguration of seeing and representing the world. Featured artists include: Fra Angelico, Giovanni Bellini, Hieronymus Bosch, Sandro Botticelli, Pieter Brueghel, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Albrecht Dürer, El Greco, Matthias Grünewald, Hans Holbein the Younger, Fra Filippo Lippi, Masaccio, Michelangelo, Pontormo, Raphael, Tintoretto, Titian, Paolo Uccello, Veronese, and Leonardo da Vinci. About the series Born back in 1985, the Basic Art Series has evolved into the best-selling art book collection ever published. Each book in TASCHEN’s Basic Art History series features: approximately 100 color illustrations with explanatory captions a detailed, illustrated introduction a selection of the most important works of the epoch, each presented on a two-page spread with a full-page image and accompanying interpretation, as well as a portrait and brief biography of the artist

Genres: Art, Nonfiction, Art History

95 pages, Hardcover

Published October 21, 2016

About the author

Manfred Wundram (1925-2015) studied art history, archaeology, music history, and German literature. He taught art history at Ruhr University in Bochum for many years and published widely on the Early and High Renaissance.

Reviews

[Retromagnetism · Rating 3 out of 5]

Siendo novata en la disciplina de la Historia del Arte, de vez en cuando he tenido algunas dificultades para entender algunos tecnicismos empleados; sin embargo, me ha parecido intuitivo y “seguible”.

Le pongo 3 estrellas por varios motivos: por mi nivel de comprensión, por los tecnicismos empleados, porque creo que dan por sentado que el lector va a entender lo que se explica cuando en realidad pienso que este libro tiene la finalidad de ser un libro introductorio de pintura renacentista. He echado en falta notas a pie o un glosario con breves definiciones o explicaciones un poco más detalladas de conceptos y momentos históricos; y porque entre la cantidad de pintores mencionados, no se ha dado a conocer en ningún momento a ninguna mujer, literalmente ha sido un libro falocéntrico total (tristemente no me sorprende) donde se exaltaban sus técnicas, sus dominios con las pinturas, los maestros y sus fuentes de inspiración, pero no se menciona ninguna pintora. Me ha resultado desalentador.

Si tú que me lees conoces libros de pintura renacentista donde se mencionen e incluyan mujeres artistas, por favor contesta mi comentario porque me encantará descubrir recomendaciones donde exista más diversidad y se las de un espacio.

Por otra parte, he de comentar que gracias a este libro he podido repasar algunos pintores ya conocidos y descubrir otros nuevos.

Me he quedado embelesada con algunas obras porque me ha sorprendido el nivel de detalle con el control de luces, la dimensión y el color hasta crear la composición final. Un ejemplo de esto último ha sido Antonello Da Messina y su obra «San Jerónimo en su estudio» (1474-1475). No lo conocía y me ha marcado muchísimo por todos los niveles de detalle y la combinación de perspectivas. Todo un descubrimiento.

Recomiendo este libro a toda persona que esté familiarizada con conceptos de Historia del Arte y con la Historia pero no tenga un nivel muy avanzado, quiera repasar o saber más sobre este Movimiento.

[Ada Esiz · Rating 4 out of 5]

Sanat tarihine ilgisi olan herkese Taschen’ın Basic Art 2.0 serisini öneririm. Resim/fotoğraf kalitesi çok yüksek, bilgilendirici ve fiyatı da kalitesine göre oldukça iyi.
Kitabın ilk kısmı genel olarak 15 ve 16. yüzyıl Avrupa resim tarihini anlatıyor. Sonrasında ise Rönesans'ın en önemli ressamlarının tablolarının incelemelerine yer veriliyor. Her tablo için yaklaşık bir sayfalık detaylı ve bilgilendirici metinler yer alıyor. Yorumlarda yazarların hayatlarına da kısaca yer verilmiş. Ağırlıklı olarak İtalyan sanatçılara yer verilse de Kuzey Rönesans sanatçılarının da eserleri bulunuyor.
Kitabın baskısı oldukça iyi. Fotoğraflar yüksek çözünürlüklü ve renk kalitesi çok yüksek.
Rönesans'a giriş için güzel bir kitap olduğunu düşünüyorum.

[Ikas · Rating 4 out of 5]

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[Mariam Gakharia · Rating 5 out of 5]

There are no words to convey what I got while reading this book. If you want to know European painting in the 15th and 16th centuries read renaissance by Manfred Wundram

[Aaron Mitchell · Rating 4 out of 5]

Solid introduction to Renaissance artists and the world the lived in