![]() ![]() ![]() Summary This book is both an introduction to fifteenth-century Italian painting, and a primer in how to read social history out of the style of pictures. Contents Contracts and the client's control - Art and matter - The value of skill - Perception of skill - Relative perception - Pictures and knowledge - The cognitive style - The function of images - Istoria - The body and its language - Figure patterns - The value of colours - Volumes - Intervals and proportions - The moral eye - Words and pictures - Giovanni Santi's twenty-five painters - Cristoforo Landino - Categories: nature, relief, purity, case, perspective, grace, ornateness, variety, composition, colouring, design, difficulty, foreshortening, promptness, blitheness, devotion. ![]() Item #239726 ISBN: 019282144X Physical description 183 pages : illustrations 21 cm. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Near fine paperback copy edges very slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Oxford New York : Oxford University Press. ![]()
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