Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy: A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Style

A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Style

Cover Art for 9780192821447, Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy: A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Style by Michael Baxandall
ISBN: 9780192821447
Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
Published: 19 May, 1988
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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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.

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