Giotto and the Orators: Humanist Observers of Painting in Italy and the Discovery of Pictorial Composition (Oxford-Warburg Studies)

By Michael Baxandall

Book Overview

This highly acclaimed volume examines the one firm bridge between the art of the humanists and the painters of the early Italian Renaissance: what Petrarch and other humanists wrote about painting. Baxandall surveys the main themes of their art criticism and describes how their language
conditioned their insights into painting.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198173873
• ISBN13: 9780198173878
• Release Date: December 1986
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.9"