Giotto and the Orators Humanist Observers of Painting in Italy and the Discovery of Pictorial Composition,9780198173878

Giotto and the Orators Humanist Observers of Painting in Italy and the Discovery of Pictorial Composition

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Edition: Reprint
ISBN13: 9780198173878
ISBN10: 0198173873
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1986-12-04
Publisher(s): Clarendon Press
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Summary

This highly acclaimed volume examines the one firm bridge between the art of the humanists and the painters of the early Italian Renaissance: what Petrarch and other humanists wrote about painting. Baxandall surveys the main themes of their art criticism and describes how their language conditioned their insights into painting.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
xi
Humanists' Opinions and Humanist Points of View
The humanists
1(7)
Words
8(12)
Sentences
20(11)
The rhetoric of comparison
31(13)
The Latin point of view
44(7)
The Humanists on Painting
Petrarch: painting as the model of art
51(15)
Filippo Villani and the pattern of progress
66(12)
Manuel Chrysoloras, Guarino, and the description of Pisanello
78(19)
Bartolomeo Fazio and Lorenzo Valla: the limits of humanist criticism
97(24)
Alberti and the Humanists: Composition
121(19)
Texts
140(38)
Select Bibliography 178(3)
Index 181

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