Classical Rhetoric and the Visual Arts in Early Modern Europe

ISBN-13: 9781107687851 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 238 str.

Caroline Van Eck

Opis

In this book, Caroline van Eck examines how rhetoric and the arts interacted in early modern Europe. She looks at the issue of visual persuasion in both architecture and the visual arts, and investigates what roles rhetoric played in visual persuasion, both from the perspective of artists and that of viewers.

Recenzje

'This is a fundamental book on an important but elusive subject. The author examines how the arts of persuasive oratory, well-known through writings by Aristotle, Cicero, and Quintilian, influenced the theory and practice of the visual arts and architecture in early modern Europe.' Renaissance Quarterly

Spis treści

Introduction: rhetoric and the visual; Part I. Theory: 1. Gesture, representation and persuasion in Alberti's De Pictura; 2. Theoretical foundations of persuasive architecture: Barbaro, Spini and Scamozzi; Part II. Invention: 3. How to achieve persuasion in painting: the common ground; 4. Visual persuasion in British architecture of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; Part III. Interpretation: 5. Rhetorical interpretation of the visual arts; 6. Only the human can speak to man: rhetorical interpretations of architecture.