Painting and experience in fifteenth century Italy a primer in the social history of pictorial style /
Serving as both an introduction to fifteenth-century Italian painting and as a text on how to interpret social history from the style of pictures in a given historical period, this new edition to Baxandall's pre-eminent scholarly volume examines early Renaissance painting, and explains how the...
| Main Author: | Baxandall, Michael. |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
1988.
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| Physical Description: |
183 pages, 4 pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm. |
| Edition: | Second edition. |
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Oxford paperbacks.
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| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- Contracts and the client's control
- Art and matter
- The value of skill
- Perception of skill
- Relative perception
- Pictures and knowledge
- The cognitive style
- The function of images
- Istoria
- The body and its language
- Figure patterns
- The value of colours
- Volumes
- Intervals and proportions
- The moral eye
- Words and pictures
- Giovanni Santi's twenty-five painters
- Cristoforo Landino
- Categories: nature, relief, purity, case, perspective, grace, ornateness, variety, composition, colouring, design, difficulty, foreshortening, promptness, blitheness, devotion.