Color and Meaning: Practice and Theory in Renaissance Painting - Hardcover

Hall, Marcia B.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521392225 ISBN 13: 9780521392228

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1992

Synopsis

Recent restoration campaigns, particularly to the Sistine Chapel, have focused attention on the importance of colour in our experience of paintings, but until recently it has been neglected by art historians. The author believes that the work of art can only be fully appreciated when it is regarded as the product of both the artist's hand and mind. This study utilizes the traditional sources, such as contemporary theoretical writings and iconographical analysis, but in addition draws on the scientific findings of the conservation laboratories. This is a new body of data assembled in large part since World War II, which art historians are only beginning to exploit to fill out the history of technique. Rather than writing merely a history of technique, however, the author has integrated this material with traditional approaches to cultural history. She undertakes to examine twenty major paintings of the period from Giotto to Tintoretto to elucidate how colour and technique contribute to their meaning. She gives us then, the first modern consideration of Renaissance paintings both as physical objects and as monuments of cultural history.

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Book Description

Marcia Hall provides the first modern consideration of Renaissance paintings both as physical objects and as monuments of cultural history.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0521392225
• ISBN 13: 9780521392228
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288