Giotto and the Orators by Michael Baxandall
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.
Extremely rewarding and stimulating* Arts Review *
Michael Baxandall was probably the most influential art historian of his generation. In books including Painting and Experience in Fifteenth Century Italy, The Limewood Sculptors of Renaissance Germany, Patterns of Intention and Tiepolo and the Pictorial Intelligence (with Svetlana Alpers) he expanded the discipline's range of topics, approaches, and ways of writing. A professor at London's Warburg Institute and the University of California at Berkeley, he was also a member of the British Academy, and was awarded the Mitchell Prize, and prizes by the University of Hamburg, and the MacArthur Foundation. He died in 2008.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780198173878 |
| ISBN 10 | 0198173873 |
| Title | Giotto and the Orators |
| Author | Michael Baxandall |
| Series | Oxford-Warburg Studies |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 1986-10-09 |
| Number of pages | 196 |
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