Classic Art: An Introduction to the Italian Renaissance

Wolfflin, Heinrich

ISBN 10: 0714813346 / ISBN 13: 9780714813349

Published by Phaidon Press Ltd, 1968

About this Item

Soft cover. Well preserved copy. No inscriptions and minimal wear. Only real flaw is the top/right corner of the ffep has been clipped (presumably once occupied by a price sticker? Internally very clean, crisp and tight.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Classic Art: An Introduction to the Italian Renaissance
• Publisher: Phaidon Press Ltd
• Publication Date: 1968
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0714813346
• ISBN 13: 9780714813349
• Binding: Soft cover
• Illustrator: Profusely Illustrated
• Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

from the back cover:
Heinrich Wolfflin (d. 1945) established a method of appraising an individual work of art by submitting it to an analysis of its formal characteristics. He taught us how to look at a picture and helped create a vocabulary for recording what we see.

Classic Art is one of his earliest publications to make use of this method. In it Wolfflin discusses the work of the major figures of the High Renaissance - Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael, Fra Bartolommeo, Andrea del Sarto - and concludes with an exposition of the guiding principles of High Renaissance art. As an appraisal of the art of this period, Classic Art can hardly be surpassed, as it combines rigorous method with sensitive perception of those qualities which will not submit to analysis. In this edition all the paintings and sculptures discussed are reproduced, many with characteristic details.

About the Author

Heinrich Wolfflin was a Swiss art historian who developed new methods of interpreting art works that profoundly influenced generations of art scholars and critics. He studied under Jacob Burckhardt at the University of Basel, and in 1893 succeeded him in the Chair of Art History. Wolfflin wrote extensively on Renaissance and Baroque art.