A detail examination of the craftsmanship and lives of German woodcarvers from 1475 to 1525 discusses their artistic styles, techniques of carving, and place in society.

A detail examination of the craftsmanship and lives of German woodcarvers from 1475 to 1525 discusses their artistic styles, techniques of carving, and place in society.

麦克尔巴克桑德尔（Michael Baxandall，1933-2008），生于英国，著名艺术史学家。美国加州伯克利大学教授，美国文理科学院院士。

A beautifully illustrated history of the Renaissance told through the lives of its most important and influential patrons the princely rulers of Italy's dynastic states and their families. From the late Middle Ages, the independent Italian city-states were taken over by powerful families who installed themselves as dynastic rulers. Inspired by the humanists, the princes of fift...(展开全部)

查尔斯·霍默·哈斯金斯(Charles Homer Haskins)，美国历史学家，中世纪史权威。1870年生，幼年即开始学习拉丁文和希腊文。16岁毕业于约翰·霍普金斯大学，后来到巴黎和柏林学习。不到20岁就获得了博士学位，并开始在约翰·霍普金斯大学任教。1892到1902年转到威斯康星大学讲授欧洲史。1902年应聘到哈佛大学，直到1931年因身体状况退休。1937年逝世。在长期的哈佛岁月中，他成为该大学、乃至美国史学界最著名的人物之一。主要著作有：《欧洲历史上的诺曼人》(1915年)、《诺曼社会制度》(1918年)、《大学的兴起》(1923年)、《中世纪科学史研究》(1924年)、《12世纪文艺复兴》(1927年)、《中世纪文化研究》(1929年)。

【著者简介】 [美] 斯蒂芬妮·波拉斯（Stephanie Porras），曾任教于考陶尔德艺术学院和哥伦比亚大学，现为杜兰大学艺术史教授。她的研究重点是15—17世纪的欧洲北部艺术，著有《彼得·勃鲁盖尔的历史想象》《北方文艺复兴艺术：宫廷、商业与虔信》《第一批病毒式传播的图像：梅尔滕·德·沃斯、安特卫普和早期现代全球》等。 - 【译者简介】 李方木，北京外国语大学文学博士，英语人文社科译者，现任山东师范大学外国语学院副教授，近期出版译著有《文艺复兴时期的威尼斯艺术：从传统到个人主义》《我和我的世界：威廉·福克纳传》等。

Many studies have shown that images—their presence in the daily lives of the faithful, the means used to control them, and their adaptation to secular uses—were at the heart of the Reformation crisis in northern Europe. But the question as it affects the art of Italy has been raised only in highly specialized studies. In this book, Alexander Nagel provides the first truly synt...(展开全部)

For nineteenth-century Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt, the Italian Renaissance was nothing less than the beginning of the modern world - a world in which flourishing individualism and the competition for fame radically transformed science, the arts, and politics. In this landmark work he depicts the Italian city-states of Florence, Venice and Rome as providing the seeds of a ...(展开全部)

For nineteenth-century Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt, the Italian Renaissance was nothing less than the beginning of the modern world - a world in which flourishing individualism and the competition for fame radically transformed science, the arts, and politics. In this landmark work he depicts the Italian city-states of Florence, Venice and Rome as providing the seeds of a ...(展开全部)