Author: BAXANDALL, MICHAEL
Title: Painting and experience in fifteenth century Italy : a primer in the social history of pictorial style / Michael Baxandall
Description: Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York : Oxford University Press 1988. Second Edition. Near fine paperback copy; edges very slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 183 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. Notes; Includes index. Bibliography: p. 155-179. Previous ed.: Oxford : Clarendon. 1972. 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. Summary; This book is both an introduction to fifteenth-century Italian painting. and a primer in how to read social history out of the style of pictures. It examines the commercial practice of the early Renaissance picture. trade in contracts. letters. and accounts; and it explains how the visual skills and habits evolved in the daily life of any society enter into its painters' style. Renaissance painting is related for instance to experience of such activities as preaching. dancing. and gauging barrels. This second edition contains an appendix. the original Latin and Italian texts referred to throughout the book. giving the student access to all the relevant. authentic sources. Subjects; Painting. Renaissance — Italy. Art patronage — Italy. Art and society — Italy. Art patrons — Italy. Renaissance — Italy. Artists and patrons — Italy. Society. Art. Patrons. Painting. Italian — History. Painting — Psychological aspects. Art criticism — Italy — History — 15th century. Painting. Modern — Renaissance — Italy. Italy — Civilization — 1268-1559. Italy — History — 15th century — Pictorial works. paintings — style. Italian paintings — 1420-1535 — Critical studies. Paintings. Medieval. Dates covered: 1400-1500. History of art & design styles: c 1400 to c 1600. Italy ; c 1000 CE to c 1500 ; c 1500 to c 1600. ART / European. HISTORY / Europe / Italy. HISTORY / Renaissance. ART / History / General. ISBN: 019282144X. Weight in Kg appr.:

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