Gombrich on the Renaissance Volume LL: Symbolic Images

Title: Gombrich on the Renaissance Volume LL: Symbolic ImagesAuthor: Gombrich, LeoniePublisher: Phaidon PressBinding: PaperbackPages: 340Dimensions: 9.74h x 6.70w x 0.98dProduct Weight: 1.94 lbs.Language: EnglishISBN: 9780714823812In this second volume of his classic essays on the Renaissance, E H Gombrich focuses on a theme of central importance: visual symbolism. He opens with a searching introduction ('The Aims and Limits of Iconology'), and follows with detailed studies of Botticelli, Mantegna, Raphael, Poussin and others. The volume concludes with an extended study of the philosophies of symbolism, demonstrating that the ideas which preoccupied the philosophers of the Renaissance are still very much alive today.Like its predecessor, Norm and Form, this volume is indispensable for all students of Renaissance art and thought as a work that has itself helped to shape the evolving discipline of art history. Reflecting the author's abiding concern with standards, values and pr