Author: White, John
Title: The Birth and Rebirth of Pictorial Space
Description: London, Faber and Faber, 1957. Origianl Edition. Hardcover. Gray cloth boards with black title block on spine and gilt lettering. Pale blue dust jacket with black lettering and bw illustrations. 288 pp, illustrated in bw throughout. 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 Ucello, Leonardo da Vinci and the development of synthetic perspective -- Fourteenth- and fifteenth-century manuscript illumination in France -- Spacial design in antiquity -- Present problems. Also includes a list of perspective diagrams and a list of the illustrations. Good/Good (light shelfwear and fading to boards. Light foxing to block. Age toning to end pages. Text and illustrations are clean and clear. Dust jacket has heavy wear with tears.) .

Keywords: General European Art ; Italian Painting ; ;


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