On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 3:08 PM, Dennis Claxton <ddclaxton at earthlink.net>wrote:
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> There's a great little book that really brings this alive. It's by Michael
> Baxandall:
>
>
> http://books.google.com/books?id=dmpMcyeEX5EC&dq=michael+baxandall&source=bl&ots=40m_YMMqGD&sig=-z4zksdZs-B72dS8pD1BrA2heNA&hl=en&ei=05DhTKSVHYv0swPQkYX4Cg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=15&ved=0CGMQ6AEwDg
>
> Serving as both an introduction to fifteenth-century Italian painting and
> as a text on how to interpret social history from the style of pictures in a
> given historical period, this new edition to Baxandall's pre-eminent
> scholarly volume examines early Renaissance painting, and explains how the
> style of painting in any society reflects the visual skills and habits that
> evolve out of daily life. Renaissance painting, for example, mirrors the
> experience of such activities as preaching, dancing, and gauging barrels.
> The volume includes discussions of a wide variety of painters, including
> Filippo Lippi, Fra Angelico, Stefano di Giovanni, Sandro Botticelli,
> Masaccio, Luca Signorelli, Boccaccio, and countless others. Baxandall also
> defines and illustrates sixteen concepts used by a contemporary critic of
> painting, thereby assembling the basic equipment needed to explore
> fifteenth-century art.
>
> This new second edition includes an appendix that lists the original Latin
> and Italian texts referred to throughout the book, providing the reader with
> all the relevant, authentic sources. It also contains an updated
> bibliography and a new reproduction of a recently restored painting which
> replaces the original.
>
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