Inventing the Renaissance Putto

(Author) Charles Dempsey
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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.

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Publisher:
The University of North Carolina Press
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
None
Language:
en
ISBN:
9781469628400
Publish year:
2015
Publish date:
Aug. 30, 2015

Charles Dempsey

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