|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
2 Reviews
|
Average Customer Review
Share your thoughts with other customers
Create your own review
|
|
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
enjoyment pure and simple
An absolutely brilliant book, indeed! It is written with a lot of intellectual vigour, Settis' knowledge of the subject is breathtaking, but what is by far the most impressing feature of this book is the author's ability to connect very different fields of academic research: sociology, history, philology. It is an absolute must for all students and scholars of arts, a...
Published on March 7, 2000
|
 |
2 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
over analyzing and wrong
with all of the analyses offered in the book it is surprising that none of them seem right. this book's redeeming points have nothing to do with the subject. one of these points is learning how to approach a work of art that you know nothing about.
Published on November 24, 1999 by mushypoo
|
|
Most Helpful First | Newest First
|
|
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
enjoyment pure and simple,
By A Customer
This review is from: Giorgione's Tempest: Interpreting the Hidden Subject (Paperback)
An absolutely brilliant book, indeed! It is written with a lot of intellectual vigour, Settis' knowledge of the subject is breathtaking, but what is by far the most impressing feature of this book is the author's ability to connect very different fields of academic research: sociology, history, philology. It is an absolute must for all students and scholars of arts, a true example how a detailed analysis of a single painting reveals to us much about the era it was painted in, as well as about the times when its meaning was attempted to be deciphered. We learn here much about the Italian Rennaisance, Giorgione and his contemporaries, but also about centuries which came after -- what they did with his paintings and how they tried to adjust their meanings to their contemporary tastes and preferences. A real diamond.
2 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
over analyzing and wrong,
This review is from: Giorgione's Tempest: Interpreting the Hidden Subject (Paperback)
with all of the analyses offered in the book it is surprising that none of them seem right. this book's redeeming points have nothing to do with the subject. one of these points is learning how to approach a work of art that you know nothing about.
|
|
Most Helpful First | Newest First
|
|
Giorgione's Tempest: Interpreting the Hidden Subject by Salvatore Settis (Hardcover - June 15, 1990)
Used & New from: $22.00
| |
| ||
