Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. 183 pages, 4 pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 21 cm

Summary

1. 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 critic of painting, thereby assembling the basic equipment needed to explore fifteenth-century art. 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.

Series statement

1. Oxford paperbacks

Uniform title

1. Oxford paperbacks

Subject

1. 1268-1559
2. Painting, Italian
3. Painting, Renaissance > Italy
4. Art patronage > Italy
5. Art and society > Italy
6. Artists and patrons > Italy
7. Renaissance > Italy
8. Art and society
9. Art patronage
10. Artists and patrons
11. Civilization
12. Painting, Renaissance
13. Renaissance
14. Schilderkunst
15. Sociale aspecten
16. Painting, Italian > 15th century
17. Art patronage > Italy > History > 15th century
18. Art and society > Italy > History > 15th century
19. Artists and patrons > Italy > History > 15th century
20. Italy > Civilization > 1268-1559
21. Italy

Contents

1. 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.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Note

1. Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

1. Bibliography: p. 155-179.