History and Its Images: Art and the Interpretation of the Past

Haskell, Professor Francis

Verlag: Yale U. P. New Haven 1993

Beschreibung

2nd corrected printing hardback with dust jacket As New large octavo x + 558pp., frontis., col. & b/w pls., text ills., notes, bibliog., index, Author begins by discussing the antiquarians of the 16th and 17th centuries who brought to light and interpreted as historical evidence coins, sculptures, paintings discovered in the catacombs beneath Rome and other relics surviving from earlier ages; explains that in the 18th century, historians gradually began to acknowledge the significance of such visual sources and to draw on them in order to validate and give colour to their narratives'.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 142936

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: History and Its Images: Art and the Interpretation of the Past
• Verlag: Yale U. P. New Haven 1993
• Einband: Hardcover
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Schutzumschlag