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Author Ackerman, James S.

Title Origins, imitation, conventions : representation in the visual arts / James S. Ackerman
Published Cambridge, Mass. ; London : MIT Press, [2002]
©2002

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Description xi, 328 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Contents On origins of art history and criticism -- The origins of architectural drawing in the Middle Ages and Renaissance -- Leonardo da Vinci's church designs -- On the origins of architectural photography -- Imitation -- Art and science in the drawings of Leonardo da Vinci -- The aesthetics of architecture in the Renaissance -- The influence of antiquity on Italian Renaissance villas -- Daniele Barbaro and Vitruvius -- Palladio: classical in what sense? -- Thomas Jefferson and Italy -- The conventions and rhetoric of architectural drawing
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Art criticism -- Historiography.
Art -- Historiography.
Art, Renaissance.
Modernism (Art)
Poststructuralism.
Author Slosburg-Ackerman, Jill.
LC no. 2001044155
ISBN 0262011867 :
0262011867 hardcover alkaline paper
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