Symbolic Images

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Phaidon Press, 1985 - Art - 244 pages

In this second volume of his classic essays on the Renaissance, E H Gombrich focuses on a theme of central importance: visual symbolism. He opens with a searching introduction ('The Aims and Limits of Iconology'), and follows with detailed studies of Botticelli, Mantegna, Raphael, Poussin and others. The volume concludes with an extended study of the philosophies of symbolism, demonstrating that the ideas which preoccupied the philosophers of the Renaissance are still very much alive today.

Like its predecessor, Norm and Form, this volume is indispensable for all students of Renaissance art and thought as a work that has itself helped to shape the evolving discipline of art history. Reflecting the author's abiding concern with standards, values and problems of method, it also has a wider interest as an introduction to the fundamental questions involved in the interpretation of images.

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Contents

Tobias and the Angel
26
An Interpretation of Mantegnas Parnassus
82
Hypnerotomachiana
102
Copyright

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TitleSymbolic Images
AuthorE.H. Gombrich
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherPhaidon Press, 1985
Original fromthe University of Michigan
DigitizedNov 17, 2009
ISBN0714823813, 9780714823812
Length244 pages
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