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Painting and Experience in Fifteenth Century Italy: A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Style

Door Michael Baxandall

Categorie
Schilderkunst
Boeknummer
#434542-YA18
Titel
Painting and Experience in Fifteenth Century Italy: A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Style
Auteur
Baxandall, Michael
Boektype
Paperback
Druk
2e druk
Uitgeverij
Oxford University Press
Jaar van uitgave
1991
ISBN10
019282144X
ISBN13
9780192821447
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Paperback, numerous illustrations partly in colour, 8vo.
Samenvatting
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 style of painting in any society reflects the visual skills and habits that evolve out of daily life. Renaissance painting, for example, mirrors the experience of such activities as preaching, dancing, and gauging barrels. The volume includes discussions of a wide variety of painters, including Filippo Lippi, Fra Angelico, Stefano di Giovanni, Sandro Botticelli, Masaccio, Luca Signorelli, Boccaccio, and countless others. Baxandall also defines and illustrates sixteen concepts used by a contemporary c... (Lees verder)ritic of painting, thereby assembling the basic equipment needed to explore fifteenth-century art.<br> This new second edition includes an appendix that lists the original Latin and Italian texts referred to throughout the book, providing the reader with all the relevant, authentic sources. It also contains an updated bibliography and a new reproduction of a recently restored painting which replaces the original.
Pagina's
183
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 10,00

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