On Antique Painting - Couverture souple

Hollanda, Francisco De

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0271059664 ISBN 13 : 9780271059662

Editeur : Pennsylvania State University Press, 2015

Synopsis

Francisco de Hollanda completed Da pintura antigua in 1548, eight years after the young Portuguese humanist, painter, and architect had spent two years in Italy. Book I is the first Portuguese treatise on the theory and practice of painting. In contrast to Italian texts on artistic theory, which define painting as the imitation of nature, Hollanda's treatise, influenced by Neoplatonism, develops a theory of the painter as an original creator guided by divine inspiration. Book II, "Dialogues in Rome," is a record of three conversations with Michelangelo, Vittoria Colonna, and members of their circle and a fourth with Giulio Clovio. It is the most informative and intimate intellectual portrait of Michelangelo before the biographies by Vasari and Condivi.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Alice Sedgwick Wohl is an independent scholar and translator.

Joaquim Oliveira Caetano is Curator of the Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga in Lisbon.

Charles Hope is the retired former director of the Warburg Institute in London.

Hellmut Wohl is Professor Emeritus of Art History at Boston University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pennsylvania State University Press
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0271059664
• ISBN 13: 9780271059662
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 312
• Éditeur: Wohl Hellmut
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