The Figino, or, On the purpose of painting : art theory in the late Renaissance / Gregorio Comanini ; translated, with introduction and notes, by Ann Doyle-Anderson and Giancarlo Maiorino.

The Figino, or, On the purpose of painting : art theory in the late Renaissance /

Of the many treatises written in Italy during the Counter-Reformation, none is more illustrative of the intellectual fermentation of the period than Comanini's work on the purpose of painting, Il Figino overo del fine della Pittura (1591). Although the importance of Il Figino has long been reco...

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Main Author: Comanini, Gregorio, -1608 (Author)
Other Authors: Doyle-Anderson, Ann (Translator), Maiorino, Giancarlo, 1943- (Translator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Italian
Published: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2001]
Series:Toronto Italian studies.
Subjects:
Arts > Philosophy > Early works to 1800.
Painting > Philosophy > Early works to 1800.
Aesthetics > Early works to 1800.
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