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Pictorial composition from medieval to modern art

Author: François Quiviger; Paul Taylor; Warburg Institute.
Publisher: London : Warburg Institute, 2000.
Series: Warburg Institute colloquia, 6
Edition/Format:   Book : Conference publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Pictorial composition from medieval to modern art.
London : Warburg Institute, 2000
(OCoLC)606598152
Material Type: Conference publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: François Quiviger; Paul Taylor; Warburg Institute.
ISBN: 0854811257 9780854811250
OCLC Number: 46513757
Language Note: Includes one chapter in French and notes in Italian.
Notes: Colloquium papers.
Description: viii, 239 p. : ill., ports. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Pictorial composition in medieval art / Athene Reiss --
Composition in Italian art literature / Charles Hope --
Imagining and composing stories in the Renaissance / François Quiviger --
Baroque piles and other decompositions / Philip Sohm --
Andrea Pozzo on the ceiling paintings in S. Ignazio / Thomas Frangenberg --
La théorie de la composition dans le De pictura veterum de Franciscus Junius: une transition entre Alberti e l'Académie / Colette Nativel --
Composition, disposition and ordonnance in French seventeenth-century writings on art / Thomas Puttfarken --
Composition in seventeenth-century Dutch art theory / Paul Taylor --
Reynolds, chiaroscuro and composition / Harry Mount --
The politics of composition: reflections on Jacques Louis David's Serment de Jeu de paume / Richard Wrigley --
Towards a science of art: the concept of 'pure composition' in nineteenth- and twentieth-century art theory / Hubert Locher.
Series Title: Warburg Institute colloquia, 6
Responsibility: edited by Paul Taylor and François Quiviger.

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