Words for Pictures: Seven Papers on Renaissance Art and Criticism - Rilegato

Baxandall, Michael

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0300097492 ISBN 13: 9780300097498

Casa editrice: Yale Univ Pr, 2003

Riassunto

The Italian Renaissance was a creative period for art criticism as well as for art itself. The early efforts to give verbal accounts of visual representations and their quality throw light not only on the art of the period but also on art criticism at any time. This collection of papers by art historian and critic Michael Baxandall represents his thinking over a 40-year period on the relation between language and art. He offers seven thought-provoking pieces, three of which are new and written specifically for this book. Focusing on works of the 15th century, Baxandall shows how words match the experience of looking at paintings and sculptures. The author introduces the basic Renaissance framework for art criticism and proceeds to explore various humanist critical writings of the 15th and early-16th centuries. He concludes with an essay on Piero della Francesca's "Resurrection of Christ" in which he probes the visual experience of a painting that criticism seeks to verbalise.

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Book by Baxandall Professor Michael

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• Editore: Yale Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0300097492
• ISBN 13: 9780300097498
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 184