Giotto and the Orators: Humanist Observers of Painting in Italy and the Discovery of Pictorial Composition

By Michael Baxandall

Book Overview

This highly acclaimed volume examines the one firm bridge between the art of the humanists and the painters of the early Italian Renaissance: what Petrarch and other humanists wrote about painting. Baxandall surveys the main themes of their art criticism and describes how their language
conditioned their insights into painting.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198173873
• ISBN13: 9780198173878
• Release Date: December 1986
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.9"