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Gardner's Art through the Ages is an American textbook on the history of art, with the 2004 edition by Fred S. Kleiner and Christin J. Mamiya. The 2001 edition was awarded both a McGuffey award for longevity [1] and the "Texty" Award for current editions [2] by the Text and Academic Authors Association.
The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects (Italian: Le vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori) is a series of artist biographies written by 16th-century Italian painter and architect Giorgio Vasari, which is considered "perhaps the most famous, and even today the most-read work of the older literature of art", [1] "some of the Italian Renaissance's ...
Gardner was born in Manchester, New Hampshire and attended school in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago. In 1901 she graduated with a degree in classics from the University of Chicago . [ 1 ] After an interval as a teacher, she returned to the same university to study art history, and received a master's degree in 1918.
Gardner's Art Through the Ages identifies Michael Pacher, a painter and sculptor, as the first German artist whose work begins to show Italian Renaissance influences. According to that source, Pacher's painting, St. Wolfgang Forces the Devil to Hold His Prayerbook (c. 1481), is Late Gothic in style, but also shows the influence of the Italian ...
Compared to the Renaissance architecture of other Italian cities, in Venice there was a degree of conservatism, especially in retaining the overall form of buildings, which in the city were usually replacements on a confined site, and in windows, where arched or round tops, sometimes with a classicized version of the tracery of Venetian Gothic architecture, remained far more heavily used than ...
Gardner's Art through the Ages (Eleventh Edition). Fort Worth: Harcourt College Publishers, 2001, Chapter 28. Perry, Gill. "Primitivism and the ‘Modern’", in Charles Harrison, Francis Frascina and Gill Perry, (Eds.) Primitivism, Cubism, Abstraction: The Early Twentieth Century.
Julian Richard Gardner (born 6 May 1940) is a British art historian and Professor Emeritus at the University of Warwick. [1] A scholar of late medieval and renaissance Italian art, particularly patronage, and a Giotto di Bondone specialist whose expertise has led to a number of scholarships and appointments as visiting professor at various institutions both in Europe and America.
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