Renaissance Art Reconsidered: An Anthology of Primary Sources

by Carol M. Richardson (editor), Kim W. Woods (Editor), Michael W. Franklin (Editor)

Renaissance Art Reconsidered showcases the aesthetic principles and the workaday practices guiding daily life through these years of extraordinary human achievement.

Genres: Art History, Art

480 pages, Paperback

First published February 16, 2007

Reviews

[Martin Ridgway · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a "reader" to accompany an Open University course. As such, a lot of the texts in here have been selected for the course and may not be all that interesting on their own - they do tend to get a bit repetitive, allowing different ones to be set or referenced from the students' coursework. Additionally, they make more sense if read in the context of the course, or the course books (Making, Locating, and Viewing Renaissance Art; see my 2011 reading).
All that being said, still interesting to read selectively; not a cover-to-cover page-turner!