DownloadThe Portobello Bookshop Gift Guide 2024

Dolce's 'Aretino' and Venetian Art Theory of the Cinquecento

Mark W Roskill author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:University of Toronto Press

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

Dolce's 'Aretino' and Venetian Art Theory of the Cinquecento cover

Ludovico Dolce's Dialogo della pittura first appeared in Venice in 1557. L'Aretino, by which the work is known today, consists of a three-part dialogue between two Venetians, Aretino and Fabrini, on the particular merits of works of art and artists, including Michaelangelo, Raphael, and Donatello. It is based largely on Aretino's letters.

The edition is presented in the original Italian with English facing-page translation.

This study of early art criticism serves to reveal something of how aesthetics were judged based on classical sources (especially Aristotle) and contemporary writers like Vasari.

ISBN: 9780802083333

Dimensions: 229mm x 178mm x 26mm

Weight: 700g

368 pages