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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.
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 ...
The Battle of Alexander at Issus is painted on a limewood panel measuring 158.4 cm × 120.3 cm (62.4 in × 47.4 in), [56] and portrays the moment of Alexander the Great's victory. The vertical format was dictated by the space available in the room for which the painting was commissioned – each in William's set of eight was made to be the same ...
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.
Helen Gardner (actress) (1884–1968), silent film actress Helen H. Gardener (1853–1925), American author, rationalist public intellectual, political activist, and government functionary Topics referred to by the same term
KIRAC in Amsterdam in 2024. Keeping It Real Art Critics (also known as KIRAC) is a web series on YouTube and Vimeo exploring the international art world. Directed by Stefan Ruitenbeek, a Dutch artist and director, KIRAC episodes occupy the middle ground between art and art criticism and focus mainly on the influence of modernistic, democratic principles within the art world.