This book gives the necessary background for the study and appreciation of Italian painting and sculpture from about 1250 to 1550. It tells how the artists learned their craft, the organization of their workshops, and the guilds they belonged to; how their customers or patrons treated them and where their work was displayedchurches, civic buildings, or private homes. The book discusses how art was madetempera, oil, panel, canvas, fresco; it surveys the characteristic types of Renaissance artaltarpieces, portraits, tombs, busts, doors fountains, medals, etc. 0064301621 Italian Art 1250-1550 : the Relation of Renaissance Art to Life and Society

This book gives the necessary background for the study and appreciation of Italian painting and sculpture from about 1250 to 1550. It tells how the artists learned their craft, the organization of their workshops, and the guilds they belonged to; how their customers or patrons treated them and where their work was displayedchurches, civic buildings, or private homes. The book discusses how art was madetempera, oil, panel, canvas, fresco; it surveys the characteristic types of Renaissance artaltarpieces, portraits, tombs, busts, doors fountains, medals, etc. 0064301621 Italian Art 1250-1550 : the Relation of Renaissance Art to Life and Society