{"product_id":"2940000862339","title":"Knights of Art: Stories of the Italian Painters","description":"Originally written for younger readers as an introduction to the world of the Italian Renaissance, this classic work takes the reader on an exciting personal tour of some of the greatest artists of that time period.\u003cbr\u003eMuch more than just a dry history of who painted what, Steedman's book portrays each artist in personal terms, providing details of their lives, loves, highlights and low points.\u003cbr\u003eThe period of Italian Renaissance painting started around the late thirteenth century and flourished until the sixteenth, covering the periods scholars now call the Proto-Renaissance (1300-1400), the Early Renaissance (1400-1475), the High Renaissance (1475-1525), and Mannerism (1525-1600). \u003cbr\u003eDrawing much of her material from the classic \u003ci\u003eLives of the Painters,\u003c\/i\u003e by Giorgio Vasari, Steedman gives readers young and old a concise and enthralling overview of Italian Renaissance painters and discusses their impact upon society and their enduring cultural legacy.\u003cbr\u003eAs Steedman writes in her introduction:\u003cbr\u003e\"Then came the time which is called 'The Renaissance,' a word which means being born again, or a new awakening, when men began to draw real pictures of real things and fill the world with images of beauty. Now it is the stories of the men of that time, who put new life into Art, that I am going to tell you-men who learned, step by step, to paint the most beautiful pictures that the world possesses.\"\u003cbr\u003eThe artists discussed include Giotto, Fra Angelico, Masaccio, Fra Filippo Lippi, Sandro Botticelli, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Filippino Lippi, Pietro Perugino, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, Andrea del Sarto, Giovanni Bellini, Vittore Carpaccio, Giorgione, Titian, Tintoretto, and Paul Veronese. \u003cbr\u003eThis edition has been completely reformatted to modern standards and contains all the original illustrations.\u003cp\u003eCover image: \u003ci\u003ePortrait of Giovanna Tornabuoni\u003c\/i\u003e (1488) by Domenico Ghirlandaio.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"B\u0026R Samizdat Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47120767549680,"sku":"2940000862339","price":0.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940000862339_p0.jpg?v=1763546670","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940000862339","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}