The Art of Giovanni Antonio da Pordenone
Between Dialect and Language
2 Volume Set

Giovanni Antonio da Pordenone is a key figure of the Golden Age of Venetian and Veneto art, but his place in the canon of major Renaissance artists is still unclear and the full extent of his influence has often gone unrecognised. This comprehensive study both catalogues his output and examines the social, cultural, and historical context of a career that moved between the most modest provincial places and the highest reaches of Venetian state patronage. There are extensive catalogue entries on all his accepted and collaborative works, with special emphasis on the many difficult problems of condition and bibliography, and the substantial and much-needed corpus of illustrations, which includes a section of colour plates, does justice to both the main body of his oeuvre and the often-neglected minor parts of his numerous cycles.

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'Pordenone is an excellent candidate for a full-scale monographic treatment, and Cohen's volumes are the first in English devoted to one of the major figures of High Renaissance art in the Veneto.' Bruce Boucher, The Times Literary Supplement

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Product details

• Date Published: October 1996
• format: Hardback
• isbn: 9780521306300
• length: 1448 pages

• dimensions: 293 x 230 x 112 mm
• weight: 5.985kg
• contains: 786 b/w illus. 32 colour illus.
• availability: Unavailable - out of print July 2000