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

by Elizabeth Gilmore Holt

Overview

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

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’s famous 1003 treatise on the synthesis of old and new art forms to Durand’s essay on Christian symbolism in art and the writings of Leonardo and Dürer 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780691003337
Publisher:	Princeton University Press
Publication date:	03/21/1982
Series:	Documentary History of Art Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	380
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.75(h) x (d)

About the Author

Elizabeth Gilmore Holt (1905–1987) was a distinguished art historian whose many books include A Documentary History of Art, Volume 2: Michelangelo and the Mannerists, The Baroque and the Eighteenth Century and The Art of All Nations, 1850–1873: The Emerging Role of Exhibitions and Critics (both Princeton).