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Painting and Experience in Fifteenth Century Italy, A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Style
by Michael Baxandall
- ART & ARCHITECTURE
- 1998
- PAPER
- 183 PAGES
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A slim introduction to Renaissance art and representation with color illustrations throughout. First published in 1972, it's an influential overview of not only how to look at art -- but how the original 15th-century audience may have seen the paintings of the period. Braxandall explores contemporary sermons, dancing manuals, and mathematical treatises, original contracts and other source materials to understand the context in which the paintings were conceived. Among the artists he discusses are Filippo Lippi, Fra Angelico, Stefano di Giovanni, Sandro Botticelli, Masaccio, Luca Signorelli, and Boccaccio.
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