Giotto and the Orators Humanist Observers of Painting in Italy and the Discovery of Pictorial Composition
, by Baxandall, MichaelNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780198173878 | 0198173873
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 12/4/1986
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.