Only Connect – Art & the Spectator in the Italian Renaissance (Paper) (The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts) - Softcover

Shearman, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0691019177 ISBN 13: 9780691019178

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 1994

Synopsis

This work makes a plea for a more engaged reading of art works of the Italian Renaissance, one that will recognize the presuppositions of Renaissance artists about their viewers. The book constructs a history of Renaissance paintings and sculptures that are by design completed outside themselves in or by the spectator, that embrace the spectator into their narrative plot or aesthetic functioning, and that reposition the spectator imaginatively or in time and space. Winner of the Charles Rufus Morey Award for One of "Choice's" Outstanding Academic Books of 1993.

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About the Author

John Shearman (1931–2003) was the Charles Adams University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and the author of many books, including Raphael in Early Modern Sources, 1483–1602; The Early Italian Pictures in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen; and Mannerism.

Edition details

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0691019177
• ISBN 13: 9780691019178
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 302