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

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

Michael Baxandall

208 pages • first pub 1986 (editions)

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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 cr...

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