Visual Fact over Verbal Fiction
Visual Fact over Verbal Fiction
A Study of the Carracci and the Criticism, Theory, and Practice of Art in Renaissance and Baroque Italy
Carl Goldstein
, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
July 1988
Unavailable - out of print March 2001
Hardback
9780521343312
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This book attempts to provide a reassessment of the artist's practice and belief in Renaissance and Baroque Italy. The work concentrates on the work of the Carracci, and aims to show the difference between actual artistic practice and the theory of criticism that surrounds it.
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July 1988Hardback
9780521343312
272 pages
260 × 185 × 20 mm
0.922kg
Unavailable - out of print March 2001
Table of Contents
- List of illustrations
- Preface
- Introduction: the Carracci in the history of art
- 1. The early biographies
- 2. The Carracci and art theory
- 3. The Carracci academy
- 4. The drawings and paintings
- 5. Reflections
- Retrospect
- Abbreviations used in notes
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
