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Color and black & white reproductions throughout. viii, 332 pages. Small 4to,
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Color and black & white reproductions throughout. viii, 332 pages. Small 4to, green cloth with gilt lettering at spine, pictorial d.w. New Haven: Yale University Press, (2000). A near fine copy in a very good(+) dust wrapper.
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In this illuminating book, art historian Thomas Puttfarken examines how pictorial composition and attitudes toward it changed between the early Renaissance and the beginning of the nineteenth century. Before 1600, a paintings overall composition was hardly ever discussed. As far as art theory and criticism were concerned, pictorial composition was a "discovery" of the seventeenth century, the author explains.
In the first part of the book, Puttfarken investigates why pictorial composition did not figure in earlier accounts of the art. In Italy artists and patrons focused on large-scale wall paintings or altarpieces and on the presentation of life-size saints or protagonists whose physical proportions and interactions in narratives were considered more important than notions of overall effect or pictorial format. The second part of the book discusses the discovery of composition and Its consequences for both the theory and practice of painting, understood as the production of tableaux, or easel pictures. Puttfarken considers the effects on paintings of size, location, perspective, and relief, the relationship between ground and figures and between image and frame, and the different traditions defining Italian and Northern art. For readers with an interest in the theory and history of European art, this book is full of rich insights and fresh analyses.
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Color and black & white reproductions throughout. viii, 332 pages. Small 4to,
[...]
Color and black & white reproductions throughout. viii, 332 pages. Small 4to, green cloth with gilt lettering at spine, pictorial d.w. New Haven: Yale University Press, (2000). A near fine copy in a very good(+) dust wrapper.
Color and black & white reproductions throughout. viii, 332 pages. Small 4to,
[...]
Color and black & white reproductions throughout. viii, 332 pages. Small 4to, green cloth with gilt lettering at spine, pictorial d.w. New Haven: Yale University Press, (2000). A near fine copy in a very good(+) dust wrapper.
Condition: Near Fine; Hardcover in dustjacket. First Edition. Condition is
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Condition: Near Fine; Hardcover in dustjacket. First Edition. Condition is Near Fine in a Fine dustjacket. Book has clean covers and a square, tight binding. Jacket clean and bright without flaws.
Condition: Near Fine; Hardcover in dustjacket. First Edition. Condition is
[...]
Condition: Near Fine; Hardcover in dustjacket. First Edition. Condition is Near Fine in a Fine dustjacket. Book has clean covers and a square, tight binding. Jacket clean and bright without flaws.