Giotto and the Orators: Humanist Observers of Painting in Italy and the Discovery of Pictorial Composition

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.

• Author
• Michael Baxandall

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 208

• Publisher
• Clarendon Press

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780198173878

• Genres
• art, italy, history

• Release date
• 1986