Gombrich on the Renaissance: Norm and form

Ernst Hans Gombrich

Phaidon Press, 1985 - Art - 164 pages

These classic studies on the interpretation of images are essential reading for all students of Renaissance art; they also take their rightful place as seminal texts that have themselves helped to shape the evolving discipline of art history. Many of the essays focus on the greatest artists of the Renaissance -- notably Botticelli, Leonardo, Raphael and Michelangelo -- and all reflect the author's deep and abiding concern with standards, values and problems of method. Yet Gombrich never loses sight of the works of art he is investigating, and he brings to all his analyses and interpretations an original and powerful intelligence, unfailing clarity of expression and immense learning.

These four volumes have a permanent value and represent a vitally important humanistic tradition in scholarship and criticism.

Contents

• A Florentine cassone workshop: 11
• Renaissance and Golden Age: 29
• Leonardos Method for Working out Compositions: 58

About the author

Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich, born March 30, 1909, in Vienna, Austria, was educated at Vienna University where he earned a Ph.D. His career includes terms as Slade Professor of Fine Arts at Oxford and Cambridge universities and as Andrew D. White Professor-at-large at Cornell University. Gombrich's books on art and art history have sold as well as some works of fiction. One of his most popular titles is The Story of Art, which has been translated into 18 languages and sold more than two million copies. Other titles are; Looking for Answers: Conversations on Art and Science (with Didier Eribon), Shadows: The Depiction of Cast Shadows in Western Art, and Gombrich on Art and Psychology. His numerous awards include the Erasmus Prize in 1975, the Hegel Prize in 1976, and the International Balzan Prize in 1985. He holds honorary degrees from various universities, among them Oxford, Cambridge, and Harvard, and from the Royal College of Art (London), 1981.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Gombrich on the Renaissance: Norm and form; Volume 1 of Gombrich on the Renaissance, Ernst Hans Gombrich; Studies in the art of the Renaissance, Ernst Hans Gombrich
• Author: Ernst Hans Gombrich
• Edition: 4, illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Phaidon Press, 1985
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Nov 17, 2009
• ISBN: 0714823805, 9780714823805
• Length: 164 pages
• Subjects: Art; Art / Criticism & Theory; Art / History / General; Art / History / Renaissance; Art, Italian; Art, Renaissance; Composition (Art); Kuns, Italiaans; Kuns, Renaissance; Mannerism (Art); Renaissance; Symbolism in art