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Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy: A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Style by Michael Baxandall Details

This book is an introduction to Italian painting in the fifteenth century, a basic book on how to read the social history of the style of images. He studies the…

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This book is an introduction to Italian painting in the fifteenth century, a basic book on how to read the social history of the style of images. He studies the commercial practice of the early Renaissance image, trading in contracts, letters and accounts.

It explains how the visual skills and habits that have evolved in the everyday life of any society are involved in a painterly style. For example, the Renaissance plate is associated with activities such as preaching, dancing and measuring drums. This second edition contains an appendix, the original Latin and Italian texts referenced throughout the book, allowing the student access to all relevant original sources..



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