Reviews for Italian Renaissance illuminations

The average rating for Italian Renaissance illuminations based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2010-11-27 00:00:00 Melissa Duran This book is a little art history book of the master drawings of the Italian Renaissance. Every other page has a color photograph of a master's drawing from a museum collection. It is a fun book to thumb through just for the photos. Art lovers will appreciate having rare drawings at their fingertips. However, this is a book that I personally would not display on my coffee table or buy. It is great to thumb through. I would have like to see many more drawings by each artist.

Review # 2 was written on 2019-04-26 00:00:00 Dana Cunningham My own reading notes: after returning from Rome (oct 1528), Clement wore a beard (Ha una barba longa canuda), a traditional sign of grief, penitential beard. Quattrocento was a beardless century, the next one encouraged beardness. In Greek culture the beard is a sign of a hermit, eremite, loner (barbatus). In western art, the beard signifies an easterner. In 1528 Hadrian VI. bans priest from having beards (they resembled soldiers too much). That's why in 1528 Clement's (colla barba longa) penitential beard seemed odd, but it wasn't a surprising gesture on its own. Wearing a beard is a sign of grief.