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)

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)

In this encounter between one of the 20th century’s greatest minds and an artist fundamental to the development of modern art, French philosopher Michel Foucault explores Edouard Manet’s importance in the overthrow of traditional values in painting. . Originally delivered in Tunis in 1971 as part of a conference on Manet and here translated into English for the first time, this...(展开全部)

No mere travel account, the book that Marco Polo wrote after many years in Asia became one of the most influential of the millennium. Historian John Larner here explores for the first time the full range of influence of Polo's Book on the history of geography and exploration, showing why the work cam into being and how it played a key role in the development of European oversea...(展开全部)

After many years in Asia, Marco Polo wrote one of the most influential books of the past millennium. No mere travel account, Polo's Book is a work that played a key role in the development of European overseas expansion. In this engaging and authoritative book, historian John Larner explores for the first time the full range and influence of Polo's Book on the history of geogra...(展开全部)