Giotto and the Orators: Humanist Observers of Painting in Italy and the Discovery of Pictorial Composition
Author:
Michael Baxandall
ISBN:
0198173873
Format:
Handover
Publish Date:
June, 2005
Book Review
Book Description 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.
Language Notes Text: English, Greek, Latin
Giotto and the Orators: Humanist Observers of Painting in Italy and the Discovery of Pictorial Composition