About this title: An introduction to Italian painting in the 15th century, and the social history behind it. The book covers the structure of the picture trade and its economic basis through contracts, letters and accounts. The author also illustrates how art history can be used to give insights into social history, by showing how the visual skills and activities of daily life can be related to the painters' style. Renaissance painting is related for instance to experience of activities such as preaching, dancing and gauging barrels. Finally, 16 concepts used by a contemporary critic, Cristoforo Landino, in ...
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Edition: 2nd edition
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: 7/28/1988
ISBN-13:9780192821447ISBN:019282144X
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Edition: 2nd ed.
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA, NY
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780192821447ISBN:019282144X
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Edition: Second Edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Oxford Univ Press, Cary, North Carolina, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780192821447ISBN:019282144X
Description: Very Good. Trace of cover wear. Nice, clean, tight, unmarked copy. An introduction to Italian painting in the 15th century, and the social history behind it. The book covers the structure of the picture trade and its economic basis through contracts, letters and accounts. The author also illustrates how art history can be used to give insights into social history, by showing how the visual skills and activities of daily life can be related to the painters' style. Renaissance painting is ... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780192821447ISBN:019282144X
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Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr
Date Published: 1988-07-28
ISBN-13:9780192821447ISBN:019282144X
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780192821447ISBN:019282144X
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Edition: 2 REV ED
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Country = UNITED KINGDOM
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780192821447ISBN:019282144X
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 191 pages. (191 pages) an introduction to 15th century italian painting and the social history behind it, arguing that the two are interlinked and that the conditions of the time helped fashion distinctive elements in the painter's style. 4 colour plates, numerous black and white halftones edition 2 rev ed (Paperback) read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780192821447ISBN:019282144X
Description: Very good. 0-19-282144-X Book Description 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. It examines the commercial practice of the early Renaissance picture, trade in contracts, letters, and accounts; and it explains how the visual skills and habits evolved in the daily life of any society enter into its painters' style. Renaissance painting is related for instance to experience of such ... read more
Edition: Second Edition
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780192821447ISBN:019282144X
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 203x135 mm. (192) 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. it examines the commercial practice of the early renaissance picture, trade in contracts, letters, and accounts; and it explains how the visual skills and habits evolved in the daily life of any society enter into its painters' style. renaissance painting is related for instance to experience of such activities ... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: 1988-07-28
ISBN-13:9780192821447ISBN:019282144X
Description: Good. Some edge and surface wear to the front and back cover. Pages have some highlighting or underlining on about 50 pages. Binding is solid. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780192821447ISBN:019282144X
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Binding: PAPERBACK
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN-13:9780192821447ISBN:019282144X
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"Really fun book -- I kept cracking up at some of the primary material, and Baxandall's deadpan critism of Renaissance culture -- eg., on the various ways to calculate volume: "It is a special intellectual world." Also invaluable for deconstructing the semiotics of Renaissance imagery and iconography, for situating the type and content of art created in its proper cultural milieu, and the commoditisation of art as a cultural exchange in the fifteenth century and beyond."
"This is honestly one of the best books I have read on the subject of Renaissance Art, and should be considered a primer by anyone who is delving into the topic. It's a short and relatively digestible read, with a numbering system dividing all of the major points. Baxendall's methodology is an interesting mix of archival dependance and social history. The book is framed around a quotation describing several Italian artists during the Renaissance; in the beginning he presents the problem of correctly interpreting why these artists were respected. After laying a firm ground of how painting (and by extension, religion) was received and understood by the layperson, he explains the particular meaning of each of the adjectives used to describe the artists at the beginning. For anyone interested in understanding the Italian Renaissance, this book is an essential."
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