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, Durer 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 Durer, El Greco,
Matthias Grunewald, 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
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