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Classic volume of essays on visual symbolism in the Renaissance. Pioneering and influential critique of art-historical method that has helped to shape the evolving discipline of art history
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Sir Ernst Gombrich was one of the greatest and least conventional art historians of his age, achieving fame and distinction in three separate spheres: as a scholar, as a popularizer of art, and as a pioneer of the application of the psychology of perception to the study of art. His best-known book, The Story of Art - first published fifty years ago and now in its sixteenth edition - is one of the most influential books ever written about art. His books further include The Sense of Order (1979) and The Preference for the Primitive (2002), as well as a total of 11 volumes of collected essays and reviews. Gombrich was born in Vienna in 1909 and died in London in November 2001. He came to London in 1936 to work at the Warburg Institute, where he eventually became Director from 1959 until his retirement in 1976. He won numerous international honours, including a knighthood, the Order of Merit and the Goethe, Hegel and Erasmus prizes. Gifted with a powerful mind and prodigious memory, he was also an outstanding communicator, with a clear and forceful prose style. His works are models of good art-historical writing, and reflect his humanism and his deep and abiding concern with the standards and values of our cultural heritage.
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Published in 1967, 1972, and 1977, respectively, these heavily illustrated volumes offer a detailed analysis of Renaissance art by noted art historian Gombrich. The volumes received praise from critics, such as LJ's, who dubbed them an "important scholarly contribution to the understanding of the period"
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- PublisherPhaidon Press
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0714823813
- ISBN 13 9780714823812
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number3
- Number of pages340
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Paperback. Condition: Gut. XII, 244 p. Ein gutes und sauberes Exemplar / A good and clean copy. - CONTENTS Preface Introduction: Aims and Limits of Iconology The Elusiveness of MeaningIconography and IconologyThe Theory of DecorumThe Dictionary FallacyPhilosophies of Symbolism Levels of Meaning?The Psycho-analytic ApproachCodes and AllusionsThe Genres Appendix: Annibale Caro's Programme for Taddeo Zuccaro Tobias and the Angel Botticelli's Mythologies: A Study in the Neo-Platonic Symbolism of his Circle A Postscript as a Preface Introduction The 'Primavera' Past InterpretationsThe Historical Approach: Ficino's Letter to Botticelli's PatronApuleius' Description of VenusMisreadings of the Text?Description and Symbolism in ApuleiusThe Graces and the Problem of ExegesisThe Typological Approach The Platonic Academy and Botticelli's Art Ficino and Botticelli's PatronMars and VenusPallas and the CentaurThe Birth of VenusThe Villa Lemmi FrescoesFicino and Art Appendix: Three unpublished letters by Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici An Interpretation of Mantegna's 'Parnassus' Raphael's Stanza della Segnatura and the Nature of its Symbolism Hypnerotomachiana Bramante and the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili The Belvedere Garden as a Grove of Venus Giulio Romano and Sebastiano del Piombo The Sala dei Venti in the Palazzo del Te The Subject of Poussin's Orion Icones Symbolicae: Philosophies of Symbolism and their Bearing on Art Introduction I. The Personification of Ideas II. The Didactic Tradition The Society of ConceptsThe AttributesDescription and Definition in Medieval ArtRipa and the Aristotelian Tradition III. Neo-Platonism: Giarda and his Antecedents The Platonic UniverseThe Christian InterpretationDionysius the AreopagiteThe Two WaysAnalogical SymbolismThe Mystical Image IV. The Confluence of Traditions The Philosophy of the ImpresaThe Function of MetaphorThe Paradox and the Transcendence of Language V. Meaning and Magic The Symbol's PowerEffect and AuthenticityApparitions and PortentsArt and Belief VI. The Heritage From Giarda to GalileoThe Age of ReasonAllegory versus Symbol The Revival of Neo-Platonism from Creuzer to Jung Appendix: Introduction to Christophoro Giarda, Bibliothecae Alexandrinae leones Symbolicae Notes Bibliographical Note List of Illustrations Index. ISBN 9780714823812 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 873. Seller Inventory # 1224602
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