Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy

A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Style

Recommended by Jerry Brotton, and 1 others. See all reviews

Ranked #17 in Art History, Ranked #66 in Renaissance

Painting and Experience in Fifteenth Century Italy 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.

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...
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Jerry Brotton What Baxandall argues, in his book, is that a work of art is like an archaeological object. You need to excavate everything that surrounds it. (Source)


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