Giotto and the Orators: Humanist Observers of Painting in Italy and the Discovery of Pictorial Composition (Oxford-Warburg Studies)

By Michael Baxandall

Book Overview

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 languageconditioned their insights into painting. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198171781
• ISBN13: 9780198171782
• Release Date: January 1971
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 185 Pages