Art, Theory, and Culture in Sixteenth-Century Italy: From Techne to Metatechne
Cambridge University Press, 1/15/1998
EAN 9780521495998, ISBN10: 0521495997
Hardcover, 256 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm
Language: English
Art, Theory and Culture in Sixteenth-Century Italy was originally published in 1998, and offers a critical overview of the literature on the visual arts produced during the High and Late Renaissance. Analysing 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. Also examined is the argument that art is a privileged form of knowledge that subordinates all others. By focusing on a hitherto neglected, but important, body of literature, Williams shows how an understanding of it can transform our knowledge and appreciation of the Renaissance.
Introduction
1. Vasari's concept of Disegno
2. Style, decorum and aesthetic experience
3. Absolute art
Lomazzo, Zuccaro and Tasso
4. Francesco Bocchi
Conclusion.