Symbolic Images. Studies in the art of the Renaissance

Gombrich, E.H.

ISBN 10: 0714814954 / ISBN 13: 9780714814957

Published by London, Phaidon, 1972

About this Item

cloth, small 4to viii+247 pp., 170 ills. Botticelli's mythologies; Mantegna's Parnassus; Raphael's Standza della Segnatura; Hypnerotomachiana; Poussin's Orion; Icones Symbolicae; very good condition.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Symbolic Images. Studies in the art of the Renaissance
• Publisher: London, Phaidon
• Publication Date: 1972
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0714814954
• ISBN 13: 9780714814957
• Binding: Hardcover
• Seller catalogs:
  • Art history

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Synopsis

These studies on the interpretation of images focus on the greatest artists of the Renaissance - notably Botticelli, Leonardo, Raphael and Michelangelo - and all reflect the author's concern with standards, values and problems of method.

About the Author

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.