Pictorial Composition From Medieval To Modern Art
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| Author | : Paul Taylor |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 270 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : |
This volume contains most of the papers given at a colloquium held at the Institute in 1997. It provides a study of the concept of composition in European art and art literature from the middle ages to the early twentieth century. Some authors are concerned to show the extent to which writers on art before 1880 would have been able to think of a work of art in the terms put forward by modernist theorists like Maurice Denis, Wassily Kandinsky and Clement Greenberg, as a flat surface, covered with colours, lines and forms arranged in an aesthetically pleasing way. Other authors aim to show how artists and theorists conceived of composition before the modern period, by describing some of the implications and connotations of the concept within a broader field of political and religious meanings. Contents Athene Reiss - Pictorial Composition in Medieval Art. Charles Hope - 'Composition' from Cennini and Alberti to Vasari François Quiviger - Imagining and Composing Stories in the Renaissance. Philip Sohm - Baroque Piles and Other Decompositions. Thomas Frangenberg - Andrea Pozzo on the Ceiling Paintings in S. Ignazio. Colette Nativel - La Théorie de la composition dans le De pictura veterum de Franciscus Junius: Une transition entre Alberti et l'Académie. Thomas Puttfarken - Composition, Disposition and Ordonnance in French Seventeenth-century Writings on Art. Paul Taylor - Composition in Seventeenth-century Dutch Art Theory. Harry Mount - Reynolds, Chiaroscuro and Composition. Richard Wrigley - The Politics of Composition: Reflection on Jacques Louis David's Serment du Jeu de paume. Hubert Locher - Towards a Science of Art: the Concept of 'Pure Composition' in Nineteenth- and Twentieth- century Art Theory.
| Author | : François Quiviger |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 270 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : |
In the 12th century the "Book of the Soul" by the philosopher Avicenna was translated from Arabic into Latin. It had an immense success among scholastic writers and deeply influenced the structure and content of many psychological works of the Middle Ages. The reception of Avicenna's book is the story of cultural contact at an impressively high intellectual level. The present volume investigates this successful reception using two approaches. The first is chronological, tracing the stages by which Avicenna's work was accepted and adapted by Latin scholars. The second is doctrinal, analyzing the fortunes of key doctrines. The sense of the original Arabic text of Avicenna is kept in mind throughout and the degree to which his original Latin interpreters succeeded in conveying it is evaluated.
| Author | : Melanie Holcomb |
| Publisher | : Metropolitan Museum of Art |
| Total Pages | : 204 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Drawing, Medieval |
| ISBN | : 1588393186 |
Discusses the techniques, uses, and aesthetics of medieval drawings; and reproduces work from more than fifty manuscripts produced between the ninth and early fourteenth century.
| Author | : Noël Carroll |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 737 |
| Release | : 2023-06-30 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 100063454X |
Comprising 45 chapters, written especially for this volume by an international team of leading experts, The Routledge Companion to the Philosophies of Painting and Sculpture is the first handbook of its kind. The editors have organized the chapters across eight broader sections: Artforms History Questions of form, style, and address Art and science Comparisons among the arts Questions of value Philosophers of art Institutional questions Individual topics include art and cognitive science, evolutionary origins of art, art and perception, pictorial realism, artistic taste, style, issues of race and gender, art and religion, art and philosophy, and the end of art. The work of selected philosophers is also discussed, including Diderot, Hegel, Ruskin, Gombrich, Goodman, Wollheim, and Danto. With an introduction from the editors and comprehensively indexed, The Routledge Companion to the Philosophies of Painting and Sculpture serves as a point of entry to the subject for a broad range of students as well as an up-to-date reference for scholars in the field.
| Author | : Daniel V. Thompson |
| Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
| Total Pages | : 262 |
| Release | : 2012-05-11 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 0486142035 |
Medieval painters built up a tremendous range of technical resources for obtaining brilliance and permanence. In this volume, an internationally known authority on medieval paint technology describes these often jealously guarded recipes, lists of materials, and processes. Based upon years of study of medieval manuscripts and enlarged by laboratory analysis of medieval paintings, this book discusses carriers and grounds, binding media, pigments, coloring materials, and metals used in painting. It describes the surfaces that the medieval artist painted upon, detailing their preparation. It analyzes binding media, discussing relative merits of glair versus gums, oil glazes, and other matters. It tells how the masters obtained their colors, how they processed them, and how they applied them. It tells how metals were prepared for use in painting, how gold powders and leaf were laid on, and dozens of other techniques. Simply written, easy to read, this book will be invaluable to art historians, students of medieval painting and civilization, and historians of culture. Although it contains few fully developed recipes, it will interest any practicing artist with its discussion of methods of brightening colors and assuring permanence. "A rich feast," The Times (London). "Enables the connoisseur, artist, and collector to obtain the distilled essence of Thompson's researches in an easily read and simple form," Nature (London). "A mine of technical information for the artist," Saturday Review of Literature.
| Author | : Emmelyn Butterfield-Rosen |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 352 |
| Release | : 2021-11-09 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 022674504X |
Figures of Thought: Poseuses and the Controversy of the Grande Jatte -- Beethoven's Farewell: The Creative Genius "in the Claws of the Secession" -- The Mise-en-scène of Dreams: L'Après-midi d'un faune.
| Author | : Albrecht Classen |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
| Total Pages | : 2822 |
| Release | : 2010-11-29 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 3110215586 |
This interdisciplinary handbook provides extensive information about research in medieval studies and its most important results over the last decades. The handbook is a reference work which enables the readers to quickly and purposely gain insight into the important research discussions and to inform themselves about the current status of research in the field. The handbook consists of four parts. The first, large section offers articles on all of the main disciplines and discussions of the field. The second section presents articles on the key concepts of modern medieval studies and the debates therein. The third section is a lexicon of the most important text genres of the Middle Ages. The fourth section provides an international bio-bibliographical lexicon of the most prominent medievalists in all disciplines. A comprehensive bibliography rounds off the compendium. The result is a reference work which exhaustively documents the current status of research in medieval studies and brings the disciplines and experts of the field together.
| Author | : Thomas Puttfarken |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 358 |
| Release | : 2000-01-01 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 9780300081565 |
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.
| Author | : Walter S. Melion |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 589 |
| Release | : 2022-10-04 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9004523073 |
Winner of the 2023 Roland H. Bainton Prize for Art History Written by the poet-painter Karel van Mander, who finished it in June 1603, the Grondt der edel, vry schilderconst (Foundation of the Noble, Free Art of Painting) was the first systematic treatise on schilderconst (the art of painting / picturing) to be published in Dutch (Haarlem: Paschier van Wes[t]busch, 1604). This English-language edition of the Grondt, accompanied by an introductory monograph and a full critical apparatus, provides unprecedented access to Van Mander’s crucially important art treatise. The book sheds light on key terms and critical categories such as schilder, manier, uyt zijn selven doen, welstandt, leven and gheest, and wel schilderen, and both exemplifies and explicates the author’s distinctive views on the complementary forms and functions of history and landscape.
| Author | : Robert Williams |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 244 |
| Release | : 2017-07-05 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 1351545981 |
One of the most significant developments in the study of works of art over the past generation has been a shift in focus from the works themselves to the viewer's experience of them and the relation of that experience both to the works in question and to other aspects of cultural life. The ten essays written for this volume address the experience of art in early modern Europe and approach it from a variety of methodological perspectives: concerns range from the relation between its perceptual and significative dimensions to the ways in which its discursive formation anticipates but does not exactly correspond to later notions of 'aesthetic' experience. The modes of engagement vary from careful empirical studies that explore the complex complementary relationship between works of art and textual evidence of different kinds to ambitious efforts to mobilize the powerful interpretative tools of psychoanalysis and phenomenology. This diversity testifies to the vitality of current interest in the experience of beholding and the urgency of the challenge it poses to contemporary art-historical practice.
