Painting and Experience in Fifteenth Century Italy
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Painting and Experience in Fifteenth Century Italy
| Full title | Painting and Experience in Fifteenth Century Italy: A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Style |
|---|---|
| Author | Michael Baxandall |
| Published | 1972 |
| Pages | 165 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Baxandall reads Renaissance pictures as the output of contracts — how much ultramarine, how many figures by the master’s own hand — and argues that the period’s visual habits, learned from sermons, dance and gauging barrels, are what made the paintings legible to their buyers. The book that turned “the period eye” into a method. |
Where I heard about it
- Replies to @typesfast — an answer to his question “What’s the best history book you’ve read?” in his thread, June 2025. The full list of answers is on What’s the best history book… (tweet).
Connections
- Renaissance — the period, read through its commissions.
- Craft — pigment, panel and workshop division of labour as the determinants of style.
- The Auctioneer — the modern market for the same objects, named in a different thread Kyle saved.
- What’s the best history book… (tweet) — the thread this recommendation came from.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.