Title:
Venetian colour : marble, mosaic, painting and glass, 1250-1550 / Paul Hills.
Author:
Hills, Paul. author.
General Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 236-241) and index.
1. Living on a Lagoon -- 2. San Marco: Marbles and Mosaics -- 3. Polychromy in Early Fifteenth-Century Architecture and Sculpture -- 4. Humanist Priorities: Ornament and Representation -- 5. Transparency, Lucidezza and the Colours of Glass -- 6. Pigments and Colour Preferences in the Time of Giovanni Bellini -- 7. Giovanni Bellini's Light and the Rise of the Picture -- 8. Silks, Dyes and the Discrimination of Colours, 1470-1530 -- 9. The Triumph of Tone of Macchia.
Publisher:
Yale University Press,
Publication Place:
New Haven, CT :
ISBN:
0300081359 (cloth : alk. paper)
Subject:
Art, Gothic -- Italy -- Venice.
Art, Renaissance -- Italy -- Venice.
Color in art.
Color in art -- History.
Color decoration and ornament -- Italy -- Venice -- History.
Contents:
Living on a Lagoon -- San Marco: Marbles and Mosaics -- Polychromy in Early Fifteenth-Century Architecture and Sculpture -- Humanist Priorities: Ornament and Representation -- Transparency, Lucidezza and the Colours of Glass -- Pigments and Colour Preferences in the Time of Giovanni Bellini -- Giovanni Bellini's Light and the Rise of the Picture -- Silks, Dyes and the Discrimination of Colours, 1470-1530 -- The Triumph of Tone of Macchia.
Physical Description:
x, 247 page. : ill. (chiefly col.) ;
Formatted Contents Note:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.
Publication Date:
c1999.
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