• brand:Oxford University Press
• material:Light paper
• theme:Painting and photography skills
• title:Italian painting and experience in the 15th century
• author:Michael Baxandall
• press:Oxford University Press
• Date of publication:1988
• Edition:paperback
• Text language:english
• Number of pages:subject to physical objects
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• copies are available on shelf:9780192821447
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• Book pricing:256.00
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title:Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century ItalyItalian painting and experience in the 15th century

Author: Michael baxandall

Name of publishing house:Oxford University Press

Published:1988

Language: English

ISBN:9780192821447

Product size:20.4 x 13.6 x 0.5cm

Packing: paperback

Number of pages:192(subject to material object)

Serving as both an introduction to fifteenth-century Italian painting and as a text on how to interpret social history from the style of pictures in a given historical period, this new edition to Baxandalls pre-eminent scholarly volume examines early Renaissance painting, and explains how the style of painting in any society reflects the visual skills and habits that evolve out of daily life. Renaissance painting, for example, mirrors the experience of such activities as preaching, dancing, and gauging barrels.

The volume includes discussions of a wide variety of painters, including:

Filippo Lippi, Fra Angelico, Stefano di Giovanni, Sandro Botticelli, Masaccio, Luca Signorelli, Boccaccio, and countless others. Baxandall also defines and illustrates sixteen concepts used by a contemporary critic of painting, thereby assembling the basic equipment needed to explore

fifteenth-century art.

This new second edition includes an appendix that lists the original Latin and Italian texts referred to throughout the book, providing the reader with all the relevant, authentic sources. It also contains an updated bibliography and a new reproduction of a recently restored painting which replaces the original.

This book is both an introduction to fifteenth-century Italian painting, and a primer in how to read social history out of the style of pictures. It examines the commercial practice of the early Renaissance picture, trade in contracts, letters, and accounts; and it explains how the visual skills and habits evolved in the daily life of any society enter into its painters style. Renaissance painting is related for instance to experience of such activities as preaching, dancing, and gauging barrels. This second edition contains an appendix, the original Latin and Italian texts referred to throughout the book, giving the student access to all the relevant, authentic sources.

About the author

Michael Baxandall, Reader of Renaissance Studies at the Warburg Institute, University of London, is also the author of Giotto and the Orators.

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