Words for pictures : seven papers on Renaissance art and criticism / Michael Baxandall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baxandall, Michael, author.

Contributor:

Yale University Press, publisher.

Language:

English

Latin

Subjects (All):

Art criticism--Italy--History--15th century.

Art criticism.

Art, Renaissance--Italy.

Art, Renaissance.

Italy.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 169 pages) : 41 illustrations (chiefly color), charts, portraits

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, 2003.

Language Note:

Text in English and Latin.

Summary:

"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 art during the Renaissance but also on art criticism at any time. This collection of papers by the art historian and critic Michael Baxandall represents his thinking over the past forty years on the relation between language and art. He offers seven thought-provoking pieces, three of which are new and written specifically for this book. While Baxandall focuses on works of the fifteenth century, his essays transcend this period and show with fresh insight how words match the experience of looking at paintings and sculptures"--Publisher's description.

Contents:

Prolegomena : values, arguments, system

Alberti's Cast of Mind

Angelo Decembrio's De politia litteraria, Part LXVIII

Rudolph Agricola on art and on patrons

English Disegno

Jacopo Sadoleto's Laocoon

Piero della Francesca's The resurrection of Christ.

Notes:

Description based on print record and online resource (A&AePortal, viewed on May 15, 2018).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780300220506

0300220502

OCLC:

1042077800