Giotto and the Orators: Humanist Observers of Painting in Italy and the Discovery of Pictorial Composition (Oxford-Warburg Studies) (1971)

by Michael Baxandall

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`This handsomely illustrated book is an original attempt to make clear how much the art of the orators and the painters in the Renaissance had in common ... Extremely important for the history of art.' Neo-Latin News

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Giotto and the orators: humanist observers of painting in Italy and the discovery of pictorial composition, 1350-1450

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