| Description |
1 online resource (661 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Dedication; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction to the Routledge Edition (2000); Introduction; Chapter One: Antiquity; I. Introduction; II. The Philosophers; 1. Plato; 2. Aristotle; III. Teachings of the Workshops; 1. Xenophon; 2. Polyclitus; 3. Xenocrates; IV. The Problem of the Artist; 1. Social Conditions; 2. The artist's imagination; V. Plotinus; Notes; Chapter Two: The Middle Ages; I. Iconoclasm; II. The Early Middle Ages: The West; III. Workshop Literature; IV. Aesthetic Values in the Late Middle Ages; V. Scholasticism; Notes |
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Chapter Three: The Early RenaissanceI. The Imitation of Nature: A Concept Emerges; II. Alberti: The Birth of a New Theory of Art; III. "Correct Imitation": Art and Science; IV. Anatomy; V. Leonardo Da Vinci; VI. Dürer; VII. Formal Correctness: Perspective; Notes; Chapter Four: The Artist and the Medium: Some Facets of the High Renaissance; I. Paragone; II. Rise of the Creative Artist; 1. Social conditions; 2. The artist's nature; 3. The gift of creativity; III. Michelangelo; Notes; Chapter Five: The Late Renaissance; I. New Authors and New Readers; II. Florence and Rome; 1. Vasari |
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2. Vincenzio Danti3. Armenini; III. Venice; 1. Prelude; 2. Hypnerotomachia Poliphili; 3. The system of painting; 4. Beginnings of criticism; IV. Northern Italy; 1. The iconographic manual comes into being; 2. Lomazzo: The system; 3. Lomazzo: A doctrine of styles; V. Rebelling Against the Rules: The Last Phase of Renaissance Art Theory; 1. Poetics and Philosophy; 2. Zuccari: The theory of disegno; Notes; Chapter Six: Classicism and Academy; I. Foundations; 1. New Institutions; II. The Academy in Paris: Rule of Rules; 1. Le Brun; 2. "Les règles"; 3. "Grand goût"; III. Crisis of the Academy |
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1. Background2. Roger de Piles; 3. "Le débat sur le coloris"; 4. Modernity; 5. Poussinists and Rubenists; Notes; Bibliographical Essay; Index |
| Summary |
First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781135199807 |
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1135199809 |
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