Painting and experience in fifteenth century Italy : a primer in the social history of pictorial style / Michael Baxandall
1972, First Edition. Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press. Near fine cloth copy in a very good, somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains well-preserved overall. Item #465633
Physical description; 165 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), facsimiles ; 21 cm. Contents; I: Conditions of trade. Contracts and the client's control ; Art and matter ; The value of skill ; The perception of skill. -- II: The period eye. Relative perception ; Pictures and knowledge ; The cognitive style ; The function of images ; "Istoria" ; The body and its language ; Figure patterns ; The value of colors ; Volumes ; Intervals and proportions ; The moral eye. -- III: Pictures and categories. Words and pictures ; Giovanni Santi's twenty-five painters ; Cristofor Landino ; Categories. Subjects; Painting, Italian. 15th century. Painting, Renaissance. Italy. Art and society. Italy. History. 15th century. Art patronage. Italy. History. 15th century. Artists and patrons. Italy. History. 15th century. Italy. Civilization. 1268-1559.
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