Florentine Painting and Its Social Background

Download or read book Florentine Painting and Its Social Background written by Frederic Antal and published by Belknap Press. This book was released on 1986-02-05 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eminent art historian gives us here a full account of the history of Florentine art in the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries as well as a stimulating exploration of questions about the social content of art. Frederick Antal sketches a portrait of Florence in this richly productive period—the economic and social conditions as well as religious tenets and intellectual controversies. He traces the course of painting and sculpture from Giotto to Brunelleschi and Masaccio, and shows how major stylistic developments are related to changing economic and social structures. His analysis is fully illustrated by 210 halftones.