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Discover how multifaceted artists, skilled as painters, sculptors and architects, presented new ideas about perspective, harmony and beauty. Explore the culutral centers of Italy and Northern Europe and the artists who made them famous--from Donatello and Leonardo da Vinci to Van Eyck and Durer.
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1999
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Discusses the life and work of six artists of the Italian Renaissance whose works represent important innovations and achievements in painting, sculpture, and architecture. Included are Giotto, Donatello, Brunelleschi, da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael. Includes bibliographical references and index. Included are Giotto, Donatello, Brunelleschi, da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael. Following an overview of the Renaissance, including explanations...
3) Renaissance
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Readers will enjoy uncovering the secrets, stories, and meaning behind the Renaissance. The title will also introduce famous Renaissance artists such as Da Vinci and Michelangelo. This series is at a Level 3 and is written specifically for transitional readers. Aligned to the Common Core standards & correlated to state standards.
4) Michelangelo
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Text and numerous color and and black-and-white reproductions present the work of the artist, describe his career achievements, and his personal life.
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1999
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This series presents a unique and masterly survey of the greatest achievements in the history of art from the medieval era to the post-impressionist world. This authoritative and thought-provoking series employs powerful graphic images to entertain and inform the student and the art lover. The collection also features expert commentary and analyses from leading authorities, art historians and scholars, new location footage and re-creations.
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"From 1501--1505, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo Buonarroti both lived and worked in Florence. Leonardo was a charming, handsome fifty year-old at the peak of his career. Michelangelo was a temperamental sculptor in his mid-twenties, desperate to make a name for himself. Michelangelo is a virtual unknown when he returns to Florence and wins the commission to carve what will become one of the most famous sculptures of all time: David. Even though...
15) The Renaissance
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c2006
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Discusses the art and artists of the period in history known as the Renaissance.
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2021.
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"Albrecht Dürer was the first artist to truly employ the power of reproduction. He reinvented the way people looked at, and understood, art. He painted signs and wonders; comets, devils, horses, nudes, dogs, and blades of grass so accurately that even today they seem hyper-real, utterly modern images. Most startling and most modern of all, he painted himself, at every stage of his life. But his art captured more than the physical world, he also...
20) Michelangelo
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c1965
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Presents and discusses the life and work of Michelangelo, the Italian sculptor, painter, and poet of the Renaissance period. Includes photographs of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, his work as architect of St. Peter's Church, and his sculptures of the Pieta.
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