Kim Woods

Making Renaissance Art, edited by Kim W. Woods

This volume includes seven essays on the production of art. The essays are designed to encourage your direct engagement with drawing, painting, sculpture, architecture and print-making.

Through the examination of works of art made in Italy and countries north of the Alps, Book 1 addresses practical issues of art production.

It also discusses themes long associated with the Renaissance such as change and continuity; the relative balance of theory and practice; the revival of interest in antique art and architecture; and the imitation of nature.

Essays deal specifically with drawing and its role in workshop training and design; mathematical perspective – its significance and alternatives; sculpture north and south of the Alps; the practice and theory of architecture; Gothic and Renaissance altarpieces; and the production of prints.

The last chapter of the book examines the proliferation of artistic treatises and biographical writings about Renaissance artists.

Chapter titles

1. Drawing and workshop practices (Catherine King)
2. Constructing space in Renaissance painting (Carol Richardson)
3. The illusion of life in fifteenth-century sculpture (Kim Woods)
4. Architecture: theory and practice (Tim Benton)
5. Making Renaissance altarpieces (Diana Norman)
6. The printed picture in the Renaissance (Charles Harrison)
7. Making Histories, publishing theories (Catherine King)

Find out more about Renaissance Art Reconsidered (AA315)

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