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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
 
     
     
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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

     



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