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.

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.

Michael Baxandell is Professor of the History of the Classical Tradition, Warburg Institute, University of London.

托马斯•普特法肯（Thomas Puttfarken，1943—2006），出生于德国汉堡，1967年成为伦敦瓦尔堡学院的首位阿比•瓦尔堡院士，1971年起任教于埃塞克斯大学艺术史与艺术理论系，2003年被选为英国国家学术院院士。他将文学及修辞学的理论应用于绘画领域，并且关注图形统一中的各种概念，在文艺复兴与巴洛克艺术领域的学术成就享誉全球。其代表作有《罗歇•德皮勒的艺术理论》《构图的发现》《提香与悲剧绘画》等。 洪潇亭，艺术学理论博士，任教于中国美术学院，从事外国美术史教学及译介工作十余年，主要著作有《新神殿里的雄辩术》等，译作有《现代绘画简史》《南方工作室：凡•高在普罗旺斯》等。

An introduction to Italian painting in the 15th century, and the social history behind it. The book covers the structure of the picture trade and its economic basis through contracts, letters and accounts. The author also illustrates how art history can be used to give insights into social history, by showing how the visual skills and activities of daily life can be related to ...(展开全部)

An introduction to Italian painting in the 15th century, and the social history behind it. The book covers the structure of the picture trade and its economic basis through contracts, letters and accounts. The author also illustrates how art history can be used to give insights into social history, by showing how the visual skills and activities of daily life can be related to ...(展开全部)

Bram Kempers presents the period of the Renaissance as a process of the developing professionalization of the artist, with a line of patronage stretching from the mendicant orders and city states, through merchant families, princely and ducal rulers, to the great papal courts of Rome. Dr Kempers shows how the unprecedented - and perhaps unsurpassed - creativity of Renaissance a...(展开全部)

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 ou...(展开全部)

阿道夫·希尔德勃兰特（Adolf von Hildebrand）是德国19世纪著名雕塑家和艺术理论家。。20岁时他在意大利受到古典艺术影响，并结识了他艺术理论终生的支持者马列和弗德勒。在关于造型艺术的形式和谁为主导之争 ，他们的形式主义和纯视觉观念是一个重要的思想流派，对现代形式主义艺术的诞生、发展影响深远。