The Altarpiece in the Renaissance

Humfrey, Peter, et al.

Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Hardcover. Orange, color-illustrated dustjacket over orangish cloth, gilt lettering. xiv, 273 pp. 1 color, 149+ bw plates. VG. Item #17693
ISBN: 9780521360616

Contents as follows: Some thoughts on writing a history of Sienese altarpieces / H.W. van Os -- The Renaissance altarpiece : a valid category? / Paul Hills -- The northern altarpiece as a cultural document / Craig Harbison -- The Netherlandish carved altarpiece c. 1500 : type and function / Kim Woods -- Reform within the cult image : the German winged altarpiece before the Reformation / Bernhard Decker -- Appropriation and application : the significance of the sources of Michael Pacher's altarpieces / Mark Evans -- Fra Bartolomeo's Carondelet altarpiece and the theme of the "Virgo in nubibus" in the High Renaissance / André Chastel -- "Divinità di cosa dipinta" : pictorial structure and the legibility of the altarpiece / David Rosand.; From cult images to the cult of images : the case of Raphael's altarpieces / Sylvia Ferino Pagden -- Co-ordinated altarpieces in Renaissance Venice : the progress of an ideal / Peter Humfrey -- The relationship of El Greco's altarpieces to the mass of the Roman rite / David Davies -- The altarpiece in Catholic Europe : post-Tridentine transformations / A.D. Wright.