Inventing The Renaissance Putto (Bettie Allison Rand Lectures In Art History)

Focusing on the infant figure of the putto (or spiritello) and the mask that often accompanies him, Dempsey argues that 15th-century Italian art not only revives classical forms, but fuses them to local, vernacular, and modern Italian traditions, both literary and pictorial.

• • Author: Charles Dempsey
• • Publisher: The University Of North Carolina Press
• • Publication Date: Aug 20, 2015
• • Number of Pages: 312 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1469628406
• • ISBN-13: 9781469628400