Art, Theory, and Culture in Sixteenth-Century Italy: From Techne to Metatechne

by Robert Williams

Book Overview

Art, Theory and Culture in Sixteenth-Century Italy offers a critical overview of the literature on the visual arts produced during the High and Late Renaissance. Analyzing and interpreting texts by such writers as Vasari, Lomazzo, Zuccaro, and Tasso, Robert Williams demonstrates how these works offer insight into the experience of contemporary viewers, thus permitting a clearer view of the relationship between abstract thought and lived experience...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521184339
• ISBN13: 9780521184335
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"