A Discerning Eye is an anthology of some of the finest and most lasting essays by a great critic-historian of Early Italian painting, Richard Offner. Its contents span the Florentine fourteenth century and thus compose a kind of portrait album of some of its most notable painters between the Gothic and Renaissance eras, from the Magdalen Master in the thirteenth century to Masaccio in the early fifteenth. Each essay contains insights that are as incisive, fresh, and evocative today as when they were first written. The ...
Read More
A Discerning Eye is an anthology of some of the finest and most lasting essays by a great critic-historian of Early Italian painting, Richard Offner. Its contents span the Florentine fourteenth century and thus compose a kind of portrait album of some of its most notable painters between the Gothic and Renaissance eras, from the Magdalen Master in the thirteenth century to Masaccio in the early fifteenth. Each essay contains insights that are as incisive, fresh, and evocative today as when they were first written. The essays are illustrated using Offner's original photographs supplemented by new or additional photographs when dictated by the material or when the reader might be better helped to see the relationship between Offner's analytical prose and a given image. This book reintroduces Offner and places him in the wider context of art-historical writing to reassess his work and underscore what his writings have to offer art historians working today. Three interpretive essays approach Offner from distinct but complementary perspectives: historiographical, philosophical, and biographical. Reassessments of such figures as Erwin Panofsky and Millard Meiss aid the ongoing debate about what art history is and how it ought to be practiced. The reader is asked to reconsider not merely the value but also the philosophical foundation of connoisseurship as a method of investigation and its compatibility with other methods.
Read Less
Add this copy of A Discerning Eye: Essays on Early Italian Painting to cart. $46.55, very good condition, Sold by Books From California rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Simi Valley, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1998 by Penn State University Press.
Add this copy of A Discerning Eye: Essays on Early Italian Painting to cart. $60.00, like new condition, Sold by Argosy Book Store rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from New York, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1998 by Pennsylvania State University.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Fine in near fine jacket. Many black & white illustrations. Small 4to, green cloth, d.w. Pennsylvania State University Press, (1998). A fine copy in a near fine dust wrapper.
Add this copy of A Discerning Eye Essays on Early Italian Painting to cart. $65.00, very good condition, Sold by Harry Alter Books rated 2.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Sylva, NC, UNITED STATES.
Add this copy of A Discerning Eye: Essays on Early Italian Painting to cart. $73.85, like new condition, Sold by Colin Martin Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Camerton, EAST YORKSHIRE, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1998 by Penn State University Press.
Add this copy of A Discerning Eye: Essays on Early Italian Painting to cart. $146.86, new condition, Sold by GridFreed rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from North Las Vegas, NV, UNITED STATES, published 1998 by Penn State University Press.
Add this copy of A Discerning Eye Essays on Early Italian Painting to cart. $2,470.00, new condition, Sold by BWS Bks rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Ferndale, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1998 by Penn State Press.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
New. 0271017473. *** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request ***-*** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT-Flawless copy, brand new, pristine, never opened--310 pages. --with a bonus offer--
