Art, theory, and culture in sixteenth-century Italy : from techne to metatechne
by Robert Williams
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Art, Theory and Culture in Sixteenth-Century Italy offers a critical overview of the literature on the visual arts produced during the High and Late Renaissance. Analyzing and interpreting texts by such writers as Vasari, Lomazzo, Zuccaro, and Tasso, Robert Williams demonstrates how these works offer insight into the experience of contemporary viewers, thus permitting a clearer view of the relationship between abstract thought and lived experience. By focusing on a heretofore neglected, but show more important body of literature, Williams shows how an understanding of it can transform our knowledge and appreciation of the Renaissance. show lessTags
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Robert Williams is Professor of Art History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Art Theory and Culture in Sixteenth-century Italy: From Techne to Metatechne (1997) and editor, with James Elkins, of Renaissance Theory (2008).
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