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Title: Artists¿ Art in the Renaissance Author: Lavin, Marilyn Aronberg Price: Euro 325.00 ISBN: 9781904597438 Record created on 04/20/2009 Description: London: Pindar Press, 2009. 24cm., hardcover, 219pp. illus. Summary: This book offers a series of case studies intended to introduce and define an important class of fifteenth-century Italian art not previously recognized. It is argued that the paintings and sculptures discussed were created privately by artists for personal satisfaction and internal needs, outside the traditional framework of patronage and commercial gain. Since there is no direct documentation from this period of a work being privately made, the selection presented here is necessarily speculative. Instead, the essays focus on works by Piero della Francesca, Mantegna, Michelangelo, Bellini, and Titian that appear in the artists testaments, letters of refusals to sell, and inventories showing ownership at the time of death. The task at hand is to uncover the motivation and meaning of works of art in which the medieval craftsman began to rise to the status of independent artist, and the maker and the viewer confront each other face to face for the first time. Contents: 1 Pre-Oration: The Historical Beginnings - Peroration: the Artist¿s Tomb ; 2 Lorenzo Ghiberti and the Expressive Self; Peroration: Artists Collections and the Extended Self ; 3 Piero della Francesca and the Joyful Self ; 4 Mantegna and the Consolable Self ; 5 Michelangelo and the Self Aware - Peroration: Botticelli and the Political Self ; 6 Giovanni Bellini and the Surviving Self; Titian and the Satisfied Self ; 7 Bernini and the Truthful Self - Post-Oration: The Artist as Such. Size: 240 x 170 mm.