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Origins, imitation, conventions : representation in the visual arts / James S. Ackerman.

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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:
1 online resource (xi, 328 p. ) ill., maps, plans ;
Place of Publication:
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2002.
Language Note:
English
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:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780262266765
0262266768
9780585436982
0585436983

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