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  3. Raphael and the Redefinition of Art in Renaissance Italy
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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
May 2017
Print publication year:
2017
Online ISBN:
9781316460030
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316460030
Subjects:
Area Studies, Art, European History after 1450, History, European Studies, Western Art
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Book description

Raphael was one of the most important artists of the Italian Renaissance and one of the most important and influential in the entire history of art. His practice of 'synthetic' or 'critical' imitation became a model of creative method; his engagement with the principle of decorum revealed its deeper expressive and philosophical significance and the operation of his workshop helped to redefine the nature of the work that artists do. Robert Williams draws upon the history of literature, philosophy, and religion, as well as upon economic history, to support his detailed and illuminating accounts of Raphael's major works. His analyses serve as the foundation for a set of hypotheses about the aims and aspirations of Italian Renaissance art in general and the nature of art-historical inquiry.

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'… Williams’s book is both monumental and important … [his] account of Raphael is stimulating and challenging … this is an important volume and one that will make Williams’s voice heard for generations to come.'

Christopher J. Nygren Source: Contemporaneity

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