Documentary History of Art, Volume 1 - The Middle Ages and the Renaissance

Informationen zum Autor Elizabeth Gilmore Holt Klappentext In this unique collection of notebooks, letters, treatises, and contracts dealing with the art of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, the reader is given an extraordinary insight into the personalities and conditions of the times. Zusammenfassung An illuminating one-volume compendium of primary documents on the art of medieval and Renaissance Europe This unique collection brings together notebooks, letters, treatises, and contracts dealing with the art of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, providing extraordinary insights into the personalities and conditions of the times and revealing the stylistic and philosophical concerns that evolved during these intensively creative eras. These documents, many of them available here in English for the first time, range from Raoul Glaber’s famous 1003 treatise on the synthesis of old and new art forms to Durand’s essay on Christian symbolism in art and the writings of Leonardo and Dürer on anatomy, perspective, and the recreation of reality. They trace how a medieval conception of life that was inspired, oriented, and dominated by the church evolved gradually into the great reawakening of the Renaissance in which humankind itself assumed primary importance in Western art.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Elizabeth Holt, Elizabeth Gilmore Holt, Holt Elizabeth Gilmore
• Editore: Princeton University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 21.03.1982
• EAN: 9780691003337
• ISBN: 978-0-691-00333-7
• Pagine: 380
• Serie: Documentary History of Art; Documentary History of Art
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Storia dell'arte; History of Art, History of art & design styles: c 1400 to c 1600, History of art: Byzantine & Medieval art c 500 CE to c 1400, 15th century, c 1400 to c 1499, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, Medieval style, ART / History / European / Medieval