Classic art : an introduction to the Italian Renaissance. / [Translated by Peter And Linda Murray]

London : The Phaidon Press, 1959. Second Edition : Reprinted. Hardcover. Very good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Foxing to cover. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xviii, 296 pages illustrations (some color) 26 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references. Contents; Introduction / Herbert Read -- Antecedents -- Leonardo (1452-1519). The last supper -- The Mona Lisa -- The Virgin and Child with St. Anne -- The Battle of Anghiari -- Michelangelo (1475-1564) :up to 1520. Early works -- The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel: The histories ; The Prophets and Sibyls ; The Slaves -- The Julius Monument -- Raphael (1483-1520). The Sposalizio and th e Entombment -- The Florentine Madonnas -- The Camera della Segnatura: The Disputa ; The School of Athens ; Parnassus ; Jurisprudence -- The Camera d'Eliodoro: The Expulsion of Heliodorus ; The Deliverance of St. Peter ; The Mass of Bolsena -- The Tapestry Cartoons -- The Roman portraits -- Roman altar-pieces -- Fra Bartolommeo (1475-1517). Andrea del Sarto (1486-1531). The frescos in the Annunziata -- The Frescoes in the Scalzo -- Madonnas and Saints -- A portrait by Andrea -- Michelangelo (1475-1564) : after 1520. The Medici Chapel -- The Last Judgement and the Cappella Paolina -- The decline -- The new ideals. The new beauty. The new pictorial form. Repose, spaciousness, mass and size -- Simplification and lucidity -- Complexity -- Unity and inevitability. Subjects; Leonardo, da Vinci 1452-1519. Michelangelo, Buonarroti 1475-1564. Raphael 1483-1520. Sarto, Andrea del 1486-1530. Renaissance painting - Italy. Art Italy History. Art, Renaissance. Art, Classical. Renaissance Art.