Art & Architecture

A Documentary History of Art, Volume 1: The Middle Ages and the Renaissance

An illuminating one-volume compendium of primary documents on the art of medieval and Renaissance Europe

Paperback

Price:
$41.00/拢35.00
ISBN:
Published:
Mar 21, 1982
1982
Pages:
380
Size:
5.5 x 8.75 in.
Illus:
43 b/w illus.

This unique collection brings together notebooks, letters, treatises, and contracts dealing with the art of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, providing extraordinary insights into the personalities and conditions of the times and revealing the stylistic and philosophical concerns that evolved during these intensively creative eras. These documents, many of them available here in English for the first time, range from Raoul Glaber鈥檚 famous 1003 treatise on the synthesis of old and new art forms to Durand鈥檚 essay on Christian symbolism in art and the writings of Leonardo and D眉rer on anatomy, perspective, and the recreation of reality. They trace how a medieval conception of life that was inspired, oriented, and dominated by the church evolved gradually into the great reawakening of the Renaissance in which humankind itself assumed primary importance in Western art.