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Origins, imitation, conventions : representation in the visual arts / James S. Ackerman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ackerman, James S.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art criticism--Historiography.
- Art criticism.
- Art--Historiography.
- Art.
- Art, Renaissance.
- Modernism (Art).
- Poststructuralism.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 328 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2002]
- Summary:
- Twelve studies by eminent art historian James S. Ackerman.
- Contents:
- On origins of art history and criticism
- The origins of architectural drawing in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
- Leonardo da Vinci's church designs
- On the origins of architectural photography
- Imitation
- Art and science in the drawings of Leonardo da Vinci
- The aesthetics of architecture in the Renaissance
- The influence of antiquity on Italian Renaissance villas
- Daniele Barbaro and Vitruvius
- Palladio: classical in what sense?
- Thomas Jefferson and Italy
- The conventions and rhetoric of architectural drawing.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0262011867
- OCLC:
- 47295757
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