Painting and experience in fifteenth century Italy : a primer in the social history of pictorial style / Michael Baxandall.
By: Baxandall, Michael
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BookPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1972Description: 183 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 019282144X (paperback) .Subject(s): Painting, Italian | Painting, Renaissance | Art patronage -- Italy | Art and society -- Italy | Artists and patrons -- Italy | Renaissance -- Italy | Italy -- Civilization -- 1268-1559DDC classification: 759.5 Summary: "This book is both an introduction to fifteenth-century Italian painting, and a primer in how to read social history out of the style of pictures. It examines the commercial practice of the early Renaissance picture, trade in contracts, letters, and accounts; and it explains how the visual skills and habits evolved in the daily life of any society enter into its painters' style. Renaissance painting is related for instance to experience of such activities as preaching, dancing, and gauging barrels. This second edition contains an appendix, the original Latin and Italian texts referred to throughout the book, giving the student access to all the relevant, authentic sources." --Back cover.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This book is both an introduction to fifteenth-century Italian painting, and a primer in how to read social history out of the style of pictures. It examines the commercial practice of the early Renaissance picture, trade in contracts, letters, and accounts; and it explains how the visual skills and habits evolved in the daily life of any society enter into its painters' style. Renaissance painting is related for instance to experience of such activities as preaching, dancing, and gauging barrels. This second edition contains an appendix, the original Latin and Italian texts referred to throughout the book, giving the student access to all the relevant, authentic sources.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-179) and index.
"This book is both an introduction to fifteenth-century Italian painting, and a primer in how to read social history out of the style of pictures. It examines the commercial practice of the early Renaissance picture, trade in contracts, letters, and accounts; and it explains how the visual skills and habits evolved in the daily life of any society enter into its painters' style. Renaissance painting is related for instance to experience of such activities as preaching, dancing, and gauging barrels. This second edition contains an appendix, the original Latin and Italian texts referred to throughout the book, giving the student access to all the relevant, authentic sources." --Back cover.
CIT Module ARTS 6001 - Core reading.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- I Conditions of Trade
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Contracts and the client's control
- 3 Art and matter
- 4 The value of skill
- 5 Perception of skill
- II The Period Eye
- 1 Relative perception
- 2 Pictures and knowledge
- 3 The cognitive style
- 4 The function of images
- 5 Istoria
- 6 The body and its language
- 7 Figure patterns
- 8 The value of clours
- 9 Volumes
- 10 Intervals and proportions
- 11 The moral eye
- III Pictures and Categories
- 1 Words and pictures
- 2 Giovanni Santi's twenty-five painters
- 3 Cristoforo Landino
- 4 Categories
- a nature
- b relief
- c purity
- d ease
- f perspective
- g ornateness
- h variety
- i composition
- j colouring
- k design
- l difficulty
- m Foreshortening
- n promptness
- o blitheness
- p devotion
- 5 Conclusion
- Text and References
- Index
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Art historian Michael Baxandall was born in Cardiff, England. He studied at Downing College at Cambridge; the University of Pavia in Italy; and the Institute of Art History at Munich. He taught at numerous universities throughout his lifetime including Oxford University, the University of London, Cornell University, and the University of California at Berkeley. His books include Giotto and the Orators; Painting and Experience in 15th-Century Italy; The Limewood Sculptors of Renaissance Germany; and Shadows and Enlightenment. He died of pneumonia associated with Parkinson's disease on August 12, 2008 at the age of 74.(Bowker Author Biography)