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The theory and practice of art underwent a number of fascinating changes between the sixteenth and the eighteenth centuries, changes which are clearly revealed in this unique collection of letters, journals, essays, and other writings by the artists and their contemporaries. In the poems of Michelangelo, the Dialogues of Carducho, or the Discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds, one discovers the stylistic and philosophical concerns of the artist, while the record of Veronese's trial before the Holy Tribunal, the diary of Bernini's journey in France, the letters of Rubens and Poussin or biographical sketches of Rembrandt and Watteau reveal not only the personalities but also the conditions of the times.These basic and illuminating documents, now again available in paperback, provide an unparalleled opportunity for insight into the art and ideas of the periods the author discusses.

Art --- History --- Aesthetic Theory. --- Albrecht Dürer. --- Ancient art. --- Andrea Mantegna. --- Andrea Palladio. --- Andrea del Sarto. --- Annibale Carracci. --- Antonio Palomino. --- Art criticism. --- Art history. --- Ascanio Condivi. --- Basilica. --- Benvenuto Cellini. --- Bolognese School. --- Caravaggio. --- Classicism. --- Claude Lorrain. --- Contemporary art. --- Counter-Reformation. --- Court painter. --- De pictura. --- Denis Diderot. --- Denis Mahon. --- Dialectic. --- Diego Velázquez. --- Drapery. --- El Greco. --- Engraving. --- Essay. --- Euphranor. --- Figurative art. --- Fine art. --- Francisco Pacheco. --- German art. --- Gilles-Marie Oppenordt. --- Giorgio Vasari. --- Giorgione. --- Giovanni Pietro Bellori. --- Giulio Romano. --- Greatness. --- Greek art. --- Guido Reni. --- Hendrickje Stoffels. --- Juvenal. --- Lecture. --- Leonardo da Vinci. --- Literature. --- Lodovico Castelvetro. --- Lorenzo de' Medici. --- Luca Giordano. --- Maffeo Barberini (1631-1685). --- Magnificence (history of ideas). --- Mannerism. --- Michelangelo. --- Modern Painters. --- Mr. --- Nicolas Poussin. --- Painting. --- Palladian architecture. --- Paolo Veronese. --- Parmigianino. --- Peter Paul Rubens. --- Petrarch. --- Phidias. --- Philosopher. --- Philosophy. --- Physiognomy. --- Poetry. --- Pope Julius II. --- Portrait painting. --- Praxiteles. --- Printing. --- Proportion (architecture). --- Protogenes. --- Raphael. --- Religious art. --- Rembrandt. --- Richard Krautheimer. --- Sandro Botticelli. --- Scholasticism. --- Sculpture. --- Sebastiano Serlio. --- Simon Vouet. --- Spanish art. --- Statue. --- Sturm und Drang. --- Superiority (short story). --- The Analysis of Beauty. --- The Art of Painting. --- The Carracci. --- The Inquisition Tribunal. --- Theory of art. --- Timanthes. --- Titian. --- Vitruvius. --- Vittoria Colonna. --- William Hogarth. --- Work of art. --- Writing. --- Zeuxis.