Imagined Battles: Reflections of War in European Art
by Peter Paret
from The University of North Carolina Press
For thousands of years, art has interpreted the experience of war—its methods, human costs, and moral ambiguities—and has offered historians a wealth of testimony that is only beginning to be systematically explored. In this wide-ranging study, Peter Paret discusses forty-seven paintings and prints as complex documents of war in Europe since the Renaissance and as examples of the artist's use of war as a metaphor for the human condition.
The images include works by such major artists as Uccello, GĂ©ricault, and Dix as well as academic history paintings and popular prints. By setting each in its historical environment and analyzing it from the perspective of the wars of its time, illuminates the place of war in Western consciousness and expands our understanding of works that are too often approached with little concern for the reality they depict or symbolically transform. Perhaps the most significant of the themes he traces over five centuries is the gradual change from the prince or general to the common soldier and civilian victim as central figures in the interpretation of war in art.
Paolo Uccello
by Franco Borsi
from Thames & Hudson
Paolo Uccello, Domenico Veniziano, Andrea Del Castagno (The Library of Great Masters)
by Annarita Paolieri
from Riverside Book Company
L'opera completa di Paolo Uccello
All the paintings of Paolo Uccello (The Complete library of world art)
The Florentine Painters of the Renaissance
by Bernhard Berenson
Florentine painting between Giotto and Michelangelo contains the names of such artists as Orcagna, Masaccio, Fra Filippo, Pollaiuolo, Verrocchio, Leonardo, and Botticelli. Put beside these the greatest names in Venetian art, the Vivarini, the Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, and Tintoret. The difference is striking. The significance of the Venetian names is exhausted with their significance as painters. Not so with the Florentines. Forget that they were painters, they remain great sculptors; forget that they were sculptors, and still they remain architects, poets, and even men of science. They left no form of expression untried.
L'Opera Complete Di Paolo Uccello
Three Florentine Painters: Andrea Del Castagno, Domenico Veneziano and Paolo Uccello
The Rout of San Romano: In the National Gallery, London (Gallery Books)
Gli " Oriuoli mechanici " di Filippo di ser Brunellesco Lippi: Documenti e notizie inedite sull'arte dell'orologeria a Firenze
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