Michael Baxandall Libri

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.

In this book, an eminent art historian draws on contemporary cognitive science, eighteenth-century theories of visual perception, and art history to discuss shadows and the visual knowledge they can offer.

Defines and explains various concepts regarding the painter's intentions in order to provide a basis for understanding of a work of art

An introduction to 15th century Italian painting and the social history behind it, arguing that the two are interlinked and that the conditions of the time helped fashion distinctive elements in the painter's style.

Výbor z textů významného britského historika umění, specialisty na italské renesanční umění. Úvodní studie Mileny Bartlové zkoumá přínos Michaela Baxandalla k euroamerickým dějinám umění i jeho oborovou recepci v České republice.

Die deutsche Bildschnitzerei, besonders im süddeutschen Raum, nutzt Lindenholz und zeigt sich in beeindruckenden Schnitzaltären. Das Buch von Baxandall bietet Einblicke in die Entstehungsbedingungen dieser Kunstwerke und präsentiert die Werke großer Meister wie Tilman Riemenschneider und Veit Stoß mit reicher Bebilderung.