{"product_id":"the-altarpiece-in-renaissance-venice-9780300053586","title":"The Altarpiece in Renaissance Venice","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe painting and carving of altarpieces was one of the most important and characteristic tasks of Italian Renaissance artists. This book focuses on Venice from 1450 to 1530. Peter Humfrey  an authority on Venetian painting  explores a wide range of issues surrounding altarpieces as an art form. These include the traditions of decoration of Venetian churches  the sacred and secular functions that altarpieces were expected to perform  the market for altarpieces  and the professional world of the Venetian artist. He discusses altarpieces by Bellini  Cima  the three Vivarini  and the young Titian  as well as by numerous other painters and sculptors of the period. A central theme of the book is the relation between the altarpieces and their original physical and liturgical context. Throughout  Humfrey tries to reintegrate altarpieces with their intended settings  both for the sake of recapturing their full visual effect and as a basis for examining the ideological relationship between their subject matter and the altar table below. He also examines the complex mixture of motives  worldly as well as pious  that prompted 15th-century Venetians to spend large sums of money on commissioning altarpieces for the churches of their city. The first part of the book is thematic  dealing with the making  placement  and function of the altarpiece. The second part is a chronological discussion of specific works  focusing on the ways in which the artists met challenges posed by specific commissions. An appendix to the book gives further factual and bibliographical information about 100 major Venetian altarpieces of the period.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45280144261173,"sku":"ByrdShop_0300053584","price":96.48,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780300053586.jpg?v=1780622901","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-altarpiece-in-renaissance-venice-9780300053586","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}