A treatise on ancient painting, containing observations on the rise, progress, and decline of that art amongst the Greeks and Romans; the high ...
Continue Reading βNo publication-date appears on the title page, but the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography states that the book was published in 1842 (although ...
Continue Reading βIn sixteenth-century Venice, paintings were often treated as living beings. As this book shows, paintings attended dinner parties, healed the sick, made money, ...
Continue Reading βCanaletto, Bernardo Bellotto, Luca Carlevarijs, Giovanni Paolo Panini, Francesco Guardi, Hubert Robertβthese renowned view painters are perhaps most famous for their expansive canvases ...
Continue Reading βBefore the Renaissance and Reformation, holy images were treated not as “art” but as objects of veneration which possessed the tangible presence of ...
Continue Reading βThis book will have at least one feature in common with all those already published on Mannerism; it will appear to describe something ...
Continue Reading βArtist, architect, poet and philosopher, Leon Battista Alberti revolutionized the history of art with his theories of perspective in On Painting (1435). Inspired ...
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