In this incisive study, Hellmut Wohl redefines style in the Italian Renaissance in light of contemporary testimony and close rereadings of seminal works. Through analysis of visual and textual evidence, he posits that Renaissance artists and their viewers conceived of art as decoration of surfaces. Offering a new approach to the issue of style, Wohl suggests that the scientific dimensions of early modern art works were less important to contemporaries than their function as ornamentation.
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"Wohl's interpretation finds support in contemporary descriptions, the revival of clasical rhetoric and its preference for ornamentation, and in an examinaton of the totality of Renaissance art to include stained glass, tapestry, intarsie, stuccos, tile work, and mosaic - visual genre too often ignored in the past. Throughout, the text presents a methodically constructed effort to refocus our visual evaluation of the varied arts of the Renaissance and to encourage us to see the works from the actual standpoint of those for whom it was intended...for those interested in seeing th totality of the Renaissance vision, The Aesthetics of Italian Renaissance Art is well worth the effort. The endnotes are substantial and, often, quite illuminating, and the bibliography offers evidence of the author's wide-ranging and thorough knowledge of the pertinent literature from the familiar to the more obscure." Renaissance Quarterly
"Wohl's interpretation finds support in contemporary descriptions, the revival of clasical rhetoric and its preference for ornamentation, and in an examinaton of the totality of Renaissance art to include stained glass, tapestry, intarsie, stuccos, tile work, and mosaic - visual genre too often ignored in the past. Throughout, the text presents a methodically constructed effort to refocus our visual evaluation of the varied arts of the Renaissance and to encourage us to see the works from the actual standpoint of those for whom it was intended...for those interested in seeing th totality of the Renaissance vision, The Aesthetics of Italian Renaissance Art is well worth the effort. The endnotes are substantial and, often, quite illuminating, and the bibliography offers evidence of the author's wide-ranging and thorough knowledge of the pertinent literature from the familiar to the more obscure." Renaissance Quarterly
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In this incisive study, Hellmut Wohl redefines style in the Italian Renaissance in light of contemporary testimony and close rereadings of seminal works. Through analysis of visual and textual evidence, he posits that Renaissance artists and their viewers conceived of art as decoration of surfaces. Offering a new approach to the issue of style, Wohl suggests that the scientific dimensions of early modern art works were less important to contemporaries than their function as ornamentation.
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LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN, IN HIS PHILOSOPHICAL Investigations, drew a distinction between "picture" and "image": (1) Someone paints a picture in order to show how he imagines a theatre scene. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ornate classical style, dado zone, candelabrum motif, term ornato, porphyry tablets, senza ornato, corpus dionysiarum, wood intarsie, candelabrum patterns, pintura antiga, alla grottesca, architectural frescoes, ornamental repertory, fictive reliefs, decorative frescoes, cassone panels, quattrocento artists, cinquecento art, sagrestia vecchia, figura serpentinata, compositional drawings, ornamental vocabulary, antique reliefs, quattrocento painting, facade arch Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Maria Novella, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Fra Angelico, Filippino Lippi, High Renaissance, Column of Trajan, Domus Aurea, Maria del Popolo, Sistine Chapel, Adoration of the Magi, Fra Filippo Lippi, Benozzo Gozzoli, British Museum, Domenico Veneziano, Italian Renaissance, Last Supper, Polidoro da Caravaggio, Gentile da Fabriano, Staatliche Museen, Palazzo Vecchio, Paolo Uccello, Pier Matteo, Art Resource, Civita Castellana, Florentine Baptistry New!
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LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN, IN HIS PHILOSOPHICAL Investigations, drew a distinction between "picture" and "image": (1) Someone paints a picture in order to show how he imagines a theatre scene. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ornate classical style, dado zone, candelabrum motif, term ornato, porphyry tablets, senza ornato, corpus dionysiarum, wood intarsie, candelabrum patterns, pintura antiga, alla grottesca, architectural frescoes, ornamental repertory, fictive reliefs, decorative frescoes, cassone panels, quattrocento artists, cinquecento art, sagrestia vecchia, figura serpentinata, compositional drawings, ornamental vocabulary, antique reliefs, quattrocento painting, facade arch Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Maria Novella, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Fra Angelico, Filippino Lippi, High Renaissance, Column of Trajan, Domus Aurea, Maria del Popolo, Sistine Chapel, Adoration of the Magi, Fra Filippo Lippi, Benozzo Gozzoli, British Museum, Domenico Veneziano, Italian Renaissance, Last Supper, Polidoro da Caravaggio, Gentile da Fabriano, Staatliche Museen, Palazzo Vecchio, Paolo Uccello, Pier Matteo, Art Resource, Civita Castellana, Florentine Baptistry New!
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- Fra Angelico (Metropolitan Museum of Art Series) by Laurence Kanter on 6 pages
- Fra Filippo Lippi by Jeffrey Ruda on page 93, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Farnese Hours by Webster Smith on page 74, page 97, and Back Matter
- Fra Angelico (The Library of Great Masters) by John Wyndham, Sir Pope-Hennessy on page 97, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Italian Painters of the Renaissance by Bernard Berenson in Front Matter, and Back Matter
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- After Raphael: Painting in Central Italy in the Sixteenth Century by Marcia B. Hall in Front Matter, and Back Matter
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