Color and Meaning: Practice and Theory in Renaissance Painting

by Marcia B. Hall

Book Overview

Recent restoration campaigns, particularly to the Sistine Chapel, have focused attention on the importance of colour in our experience of paintings, but until recently it has been neglected by art historians. The author believes that the work of art can only be fully appreciated when it is regarded as the product of both the artist's hand and mind. This study utilizes the traditional sources, such as contemporary theoretical writings and iconographical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521457335
• ISBN13: 9780521457330
• Release Date: April 1994
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 2.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 8.5" x 11.0"