Gombrich on the Renaissance Volume LL: Symbolic Images

by E.H. Gombrich and ERNST HANS GOMBRICH

Book Overview

In this second volume of his classic essays on the Renaissance, E H Gombrich focuses on a theme of central importance: visual symbolism. He opens with a searching introduction ('The Aims and Limits of Iconology'), and follows with detailed studies of Botticelli, Mantegna, Raphael, Poussin and others. The volume concludes with an extended study of the philosophies of symbolism, demonstrating that the ideas which preoccupied the philosophers of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0714823813
• ISBN13: 9780714823812
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Phaidon Press
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.7" x 9.7"