Description

Boston Book and Art Shop, Boston, Published date: 1967. Hardcover with dust jacket; 289 pp; 26 cm. Second edition. Illustrated with black and white plates, diagrams, and figures; index. In acceptable+ condition with good dust jacket. Original gray cloth boards with light edge wear; binding firm. Six pages in chapter 8 have light underlining, margin brackets, and occasional asterisks in ink; otherwise interior pages are clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has several small nicks and short tears with creasing to edges; mild scuffing, toning, and surface soiling. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover. [From front jacket flap] Dr White's careful historical study of the rediscovery of pictorial space during the renaissance, and its origins in antiquity, was acclaimed when first published as a pioneering and highly important work ... In this new edition the author has taken account of the new importance accorded to the distance point construction in Italian painting of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, and has brought the notes and bibliography up to date. Contents include: The Upper Church of San Francesco at Assisi; Giotto - the Arena Chapel; Giotto - the Bardi and Peruzzi Chapels; The early Sienese masters; Maso di Banco; Ambrogio Lorenzetti; Late fourteenth-century painting and the meaning of the picture; The development of the theory of artificial perspective; Masaccio; Masolino; Donatello and Ghiberti; Filippo Lippi; Illusionism and perspective; Paolo Uccello, Leonardo da Vinci, and the development of synthetic perspective; Fourteenth- and fifteenth-century manuscript illumination in France; Spatial design in antiquity; Present problems.