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Painting and experience in fifteenth century Italy : a primer in the social history of pictorial style

Paperback • 1988 • Norwegian Bokmål

Painting and experience in fifteenth century Italy : a primer in the social history of pictorial style

By Michael Baxandall

3 Ratings • 4.7 of 5

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About the book

This book is both an introduction to fifteenth-century Italian painting, and a primer in how to read social history out of the style of pictures. It examines the commercial practice of the early Renaissance picture, trade in contracts, letters, and accounts; and it explains how the visual skills and habits evolved in the daily life of any society enter into its painters' style. Renaissance painting is related for instance to experience of such activities aspreaching, dancing, and gauging barrel...Show more

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ISBN

9780192821447

Publisher

Oxford : Oxford University Press

Published year

1988

Language

Norwegian Bokmål

Original title

Painting and experience in fifteenth century Italy : a primer in the social history of pictorial style

Format

Paperback

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