HOLT, ELIZABETH GILMORE - A Documentary History of Art, Vol. 1: The Middle Ages and the Renaissance

New Haven, Princeton University Press. 1982. (ISBN: 0691003335) Soft Cover. Presents the theoretical and practical writings of the artists, architects, clerics and philosophers of the tenth through the sixteenth centuries, which provide the background to the artistic life of the time. In this unique collection of notebooks, letters, treatises, and contracts dealing with the art of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, the reader is not only given an extraordinary insight into the personalities and conditions of the times but is also provided with basic and illuminating documents revealing the stylistic and philosophical concerns which evolved during these intensively creative eras. 380p. Index. Small ownership stamp on ffep. Near Fine.