Studies in Iconology: Humanistic Themes in the Art of the Renaissance
8 best books like Studies in Iconology: Humanistic Themes in the Art of the Renaissance (Erwin Panofsky): The Autobiography Of Benvenuto Cellini, The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy, A Little History of the World, On Painting, The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form, The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition, The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and His Followers - Revised Edition, In the American Grain
| Author | Benvenuto Cellini |
| ISBN | 0140447180 |
Benvenuto Cellini was a celebrated Renaissance sculptor and goldsmith - a passionate craftsman who was admired and resented by the most powerful political and artistic personalities in sixteenth-century Florence, Rome and Paris. He was also a murderer and a braggart, a shameless adventurer who...
The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
For nineteenth-century Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt, the Italian Renaissance was nothing less than the beginning of the modern world - a world in which flourishing individualism and the competition for fame radically transformed science, the arts, and politics. In this landmark work he depicts...
A Little History of the World
| Author | E.H. Gombrich |
| ISBN | 0300108834 |
In 1935, with a doctorate in art history and no prospect of a job, the 26-year-old Ernst Gombrich was invited by a publishing acquaintance to attempt a history of the world for younger readers. Amazingly, he completed the task in an intense six weeks, and Eine kurze Weltgeschichte für junge Leser was...
| Author | Leon Battista Alberti |
| ISBN | 0140433317 |
Artist, architect, poet and philosopher, Leon Battista Alberti revolutionized the history of art with his theories of perspective in On Painting (1435). Inspired by the order and beauty inherent in nature, his groundbreaking work sets out the principles of distance, dimension and proportion;...
This is a book for someone who sees Hercules and the Lion and thinks "look at how the artist is evoking the body's movement with the movement in the cloak" and not "I like the gold pubes!"
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"The drift of all popular art is towards the lowest common denominator, and, on the whole,...
| Author | M.H. Abrams |
| ISBN | 0195014715 |
It's the first time I've had this reaction when reading an 'academic' book: awe and envy. I usually have 2 stock reactions: 1. interesting, but the author's argument was screwed in A and B manner and 2. how did this guy even get his phd?! in a cereal box!?
M.H. Abrams is too good to be anywhere near...
| Author | T.J. Clark |
| ISBN | 0691009031 |
The Paris of the 1860s and 1870s was supposedly a brand-new city, equipped with boulevards, cafés, parks, and suburban pleasure groundsthe birthplace of those habits of commerce and leisure that constitute "modern life." Questioning those who view Impressionism solely in terms of artistic...
| Author | William Carlos Williams |
| ISBN | 0811202305 |
Prose essays ranging in theme from Erik the Red and Christopher Columbus to Abraham Lincoln about what it means to be an American.
William Carlos Williams was not a historian, but he was fascinated by the texture of American history. He found in the fabric of familiar episodes new shades of meaning,...
