Giotto and the Orators: Humanist Observers of Painting in Italy and the Discovery of Pictorial Composition, 1350-1450

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Clarendon Press, 1971 - 185 strán (strany)
"Painters and humanists were joint pace-makers for the early Italian Renaissance: this was recognized even at the time. But how much the painters' visual art had in common with the humanists' verbal art is still not clear. This book - acclaimed on its first publication as 'almost beyond value in its appeal to the mind' - examines the one firm bridge between them, what Petrarch and other humanists wrote about painting. It makes a survey of the range and main themes of their art criticism. It describes how incessant analysis of their own medium, neo-classical language, also conditioned their own insights into painting. Finally, it explains in detail the genesis of one humanist invention still with us - the notion that a picture has a 'composition.'" -- Cover page 4.
 

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THE HUMANISTS ON PAINTING
51
COMPOSITION
121
TEXTS
140
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Art historian Michael Baxandall was born in Cardiff, England. He studied at Downing College at Cambridge; the University of Pavia in Italy; and the Institute of Art History at Munich. He taught at numerous universities throughout his lifetime including Oxford University, the University of London, Cornell University, and the University of California at Berkeley. His books include Giotto and the Orators; Painting and Experience in 15th-Century Italy; The Limewood Sculptors of Renaissance Germany; and Shadows and Enlightenment. He died of pneumonia associated with Parkinson's disease on August 12, 2008 at the age of 74.

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