A Documentary History of Art, Volume 1 - by Elizabeth Gilmore Holt (Paperback)
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- An illuminating one-volume compendium of primary documents on the art of medieval and Renaissance Europe This unique collection brings together notebooks, letters, treatises, and contracts dealing with the art of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, providing extraordinary insights into the personalities and conditions of the times and revealing the stylistic and philosophical concerns that evolved during these intensively creative eras.
- About the Author: Elizabeth Gilmore Holt (1905-1987) was a distinguished art historian whose many books include A Documentary History of Art, Volume 2: Michelangelo and the Mannerists, The Baroque and the Eighteenth Century and The Art of All Nations, 1850-1873: The Emerging Role of Exhibitions and Critics (both Princeton).
- 380 Pages
- Art, History
- Series Name: Documentary History of Art
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An illuminating one-volume compendium of primary documents on the art of medieval and Renaissance Europe
This unique collection brings together notebooks, letters, treatises, and contracts dealing with the art of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, providing extraordinary insights into the personalities and conditions of the times and revealing the stylistic and philosophical concerns that evolved during these intensively creative eras. These documents, many of them available here in English for the first time, range from Raoul Glaber's famous 1003 treatise on the synthesis of old and new art forms to Durand's essay on Christian symbolism in art and the writings of Leonardo and Dürer on anatomy, perspective, and the recreation of reality. They trace how a medieval conception of life that was inspired, oriented, and dominated by the church evolved gradually into the great reawakening of the Renaissance in which humankind itself assumed primary importance in Western art.About the Author
Elizabeth Gilmore Holt (1905-1987) was a distinguished art historian whose many books include A Documentary History of Art, Volume 2: Michelangelo and the Mannerists, The Baroque and the Eighteenth Century and The Art of All Nations, 1850-1873: The Emerging Role of Exhibitions and Critics (both Princeton).Dimensions (Overall): 8.49 Inches (H) x 5.49 Inches (W) x 1.03 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.11 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 380
Series Title: Documentary History of Art
Genre: Art
Sub-Genre: History
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Theme: General
Format: Paperback
Author: Elizabeth Gilmore Holt
Language: English
Street Date: March 21, 1982
TCIN: 92891506
UPC: 9780691003337
Item Number (DPCI): 247-06-2878
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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