Norm and Form: Studies in the Art of the Renaissance
Language: English
Published by Phaidon Press Limited, London and New York, 1978
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viii, 168 pages, [72] leaves of plates, illustrations; 19 cm. Studies in the Art of the Renaissance, I. Tight, clean copy. Browning. With 186 illustrations. *** CONTENTS: Preface; The Renaissance conception of artistic progress and its consequences; Apollonio di Giovanni: a Florentine cassone workshop seen through the eyes of a humanist poet; Renaissance and golden age; The early Medici as patrons of art; Leonardo's method for working out compositions; Raphael's Madonna della Sedia; Norm and form: the stylistic categories of art history and their origins in Renaissance ideals; Mannerism: the historiographic background; The Renaissance theory of art and the rise of landscape; The style all'antica: imitation and assimilation; Reynolds's theory and practice of imitation. Size: 12mo.
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- Title
- Norm and Form: Studies in the Art of the Renaissance
- Author
- Gombrich, E. H. (Ernst Hans)
- Publisher
- Phaidon Press Limited, London and New York
- Publication year
- 1978
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0714818321
- ISBN 13
- 9780714818320
- Edition
- 3rd.
- Seller catalogs
- Aesthetics & Art Criticism, European::4. Renaissance, European::Italian, Genre & Subject::Religious::Christian, XS::Small
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