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A Documentary History of Art, Volume 1 : The Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Holt, Elizabeth Basye Gilmore.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art--History--Sources.
- Art.
- Art, Medieval.
- Art, Renaissance.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (433 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, 1982.
- Summary:
- An illuminating one-volume compendium of primary documents on the art of medieval and Renaissance EuropeThis unique collection brings together notebooks, letters, treatises, and contracts dealing with the art of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, providing extraordinary insights into the personalities and conditions of the times and revealing the stylistic and philosophical concerns that evolved during these intensively creative eras. These documents, many of them available here in English for the first time, range from Raoul Glaber’s famous 1003 treatise on the synthesis of old and new art forms to Durand’s essay on Christian symbolism in art and the writings of Leonardo and Dürer on anatomy, perspective, and the recreation of reality. They trace how a medieval conception of life that was inspired, oriented, and dominated by the church evolved gradually into the great reawakening of the Renaissance in which humankind itself assumed primary importance in Western art.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface to the First Edition
- Preface to the Anchor Second Edition
- Preface to the Princeton Paperback Edition
- List of Illustrations
- Bibliographical Abbreviations
- Suggested Reading
- I. THE MIDDLE AGES
- THEOPHILUS
- LEO OF OSTIA
- RAUL GLABER
- ST. BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX
- ABBOT SUGER
- LETTERS ON HOW CHARTRES WAS BUILT
- GERVASE OF CANTERBURY
- THE MARVELS OF ROME (ca. 43)
- THEODERICH
- ROBERT OF CLARI
- VILLARD DE HONNECOURT
- MATTHEW PARIS
- MATHIAS RORICZER
- ARTICLES AND POINTS OF MASONRY
- EDWARD III OF ENGLAND
- ANNUAL REPORTS ON THE BUILDING OPERATIONS OF MILAN CATHEDRAL
- CONTRACT FOR BUILDING THE NAVE OF FOTHERINGHAY CHURCH (September 22, 434)
- WILLIAM DURAND
- JEAN PUCELLE
- PROCESSION AT THE COMPLETION OF DUCCIO'S MAJESTY (1311)
- CENNINO CENNINI
- II. THE RENAISSANCE ITALY
- LORENZO GHIBERTI
- ANTONIO MANETTI
- VESPASIANO DA BISTICCI
- BARTOLOMEO FAZIO
- LEON BATTISTA ALBERTI
- ANTONIO AVERLINO, IL FILARETE
- PIERO DELLA FRANCESCA
- CONTRACT OF PIETRO PERUGINO WITH THE BENEDICTINE MONKS OF S. PIETRO AT PERUGIA (1495)
- LEONARDO DA VINCI
- A REPORT TO POPE LEO X ON ANCIENT ROME (1513-1521)
- NORTHERN EUROPE
- CONTRACT OF ENGUERRAND QUARTON WITH DOMINUS JEAN DE MONTAGNAC (453)
- PHILIP THE GOOD, DUKE OF BURGUNDY
- ALBRECHT DORER
- CAREL VAN MANDER
- JOACHIM VON SANDRART
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9780691268286
- 0691268282
- OCLC:
- 1435750752
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