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Vault with "Navicella" after Giotto (detail)

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Description: Words for Pictures: Seven Papers on Renaissance Art and Criticism
I. VALUES There is an initial set of thirty or forty words commonly used in the fifteenth century to distinguish kinds of interest in pictures. These words were deployed confidently and, though they do not always signal athletic thinking about pictures, they are a basis on which almost all discussion of art stood. It is useless to complain if they do not distinguish or even cover some quality in Renaissance art that now seems important. They are a fact of the culture. …
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.1-26
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00179.003

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