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Author Baxandall, Michael.

Title Words for pictures : seven papers on Renaissance art and criticism / Michael Baxandall
Published New Haven : Yale University Press, 2003

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Description xi, 169 pages, 24 pages of plates : illustrations(chiefly color) ; 24cm
Contents Machine derived contents note: Preface -- 1 Prolegomena: Values, Arguments, System -- 2 Alberti's Cast of Mind -- 3 Angelo Decembrio's De politia litteraria, Part LXVIII -- 4 Rudolph Agricola on Art and on Patrons -- 5 English Disegno -- 6 Jacopo Sadoleto's Laocoon -- 7 Piero della Francesca's The Resurrection of Christ -- Photograph Credits -- Index
Summary "The Italian Renaissance was a creative period for art criticism as well as for art itself. The early efforts to give verbal accounts of visual representations and their quality throw light not only on art during the Renaissance but also on art criticism at any time. This collection of papers by the art historian and critic Michael Baxandall represents his thinking over the past forty years on the relation between language and art. He offers seven thought-provoking pieces, three of which are new and written specifically for this book. While Baxandall focuses on works of the fifteenth century, his essays transcend this period and show with fresh insight how words match the experience of looking at paintings and sculptures."--BOOK JACKET
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English text with sections in Latin
Subject Art criticism -- Italy -- History -- To 1500.
Art criticism -- Italy -- History -- 15th century.
Art, Renaissance -- Italy.
LC no. 2002014917
ISBN 0300097492