Art and Architecture Thesaurus

by Toni Peterson, J. Paul Getty Trust Publication, Getty Art History Information, et al.

The study of art history, ranging from ceramics and oil paintings to architecture, and as varied in time, style, and medium as Medieval manuscripts, Baroque printmaking, and modern sculpture, has spawned a vocabulary as varied as its component parts. The vocabulary describes not only the objects of art but such complex subjects as the processes and materials from which they are made and the new concepts applied by successive critics. The long history...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195064038
• ISBN13: 9780195064032
• Release Date: May 1990
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 1782 Pages
• Weight: 4.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.3" x 9.8" x 11.6"