Reviews for Leonardo and central Italian art, 1515-1550

The average rating for Leonardo and central Italian art, 1515-1550 based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-08-31 00:00:00 Gary Hernandez 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 2019-09-10 00:00:00 Steven Holzer 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.