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Francis Ames-Lewis

The Intellectual Life of the Early Renaissance Artist

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Francis Ames-Lewis

PublisherYale University Press

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00147.016

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-13911

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AKG, London 33, 42; Alinari 39, 40, 41, 43, 44, 47, 55, 64, 69, 71; Archivio Fotografico della Soprintendenza per i Beni Artistici e Storici di Modena e Reggio Emilia 27; Archivio Fotografico delle Soprintendenza ai Beni Ambientali Architettonici, Artistici, e Storici per le Provinicie di Pisa, Lucca, Livorno, Massa Carrara 11; Artothek 133; Bibliotheca Herziana, Rome 35; © bpk 50, 67; © Cameraphoto-Arte 149; The Conway Library, Courtauld Institute of Art 34; Ursula Edelmann 68; Electa Archive, Servizio Fotografico Elemond 105, 114; I.C.C.D. Rome 97; Fundacja Ksiazat Czartoryskich, Kraków 32; Fotografiia Lensini 7, 45, 46, 106; Nicolò Orsi Battaglini 26, 66, 70, 76, 85, 92, 100, 108, 109, 128; © Photo RMN 10, 20, 25, 28, 51, 54, 56, 79, 83, 88, 90, 104, 121, 130, 147; Foto Saporetti 61; Scala 6, 38, 89, 94, 103, 116, 123, 124, 131, 136; V&A Picture Library 77, 127, 130; © 1999 Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art, Washington 52, 98.

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BOOKThe Intellectual Life of the Early Renaissance Artist

Francis Ames-Lewis

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00147

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-13895

At the beginning of the fifteenth century, painters and sculptors were seldom regarded as more than artisans and craftsmen, but within little more than a hundred years they had risen to the status of “artist.” This book explores how early Renaissance artists gained recognition for the intellectual foundations of their activities and achieved artistic autonomy from enlightened patrons. A leading authority on Renaissance art, Francis Ames-Lewis traces the ways in which the social and intellectual concerns of painters and sculptors brought about the acceptance of their work as a liberal art, alongside other arts like poetry. He charts the development of the idea of the artist as a creative genius with a distinct identity and individuality.

Ames-Lewis examines the various ways that Renaissance artists like Mantegna, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, and Dürer, as well as many other less well known painters and sculptors, pressed for intellectual independence. By writing treatises, biographies, poetry, and other literary works, by seeking contacts with humanists and literary men, and by investigating the arts of the classical past, Renaissance artists honed their social graces and broadened their intellectual horizons. They also experienced a growing creative confidence and self-awareness that was expressed in novel self-portraits, works created solely to demonstrate pictorial skills, and monuments to commemorate themselves after death.

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Francis Ames-Lewis

PublisherYale University Press

Print publication date April 2000 (in print)

Print ISBN 9780300083040

EISBN 9780300220476

Illustrations 153

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