Linguistic Theories and Intellectual History in Michael Baxandall’s Giotto and the Orators

This essay examines some theoretical and methodological aspects of Michael Baxandall’s book Giotto and the Orators. Humanist observers of painting in Italy and the discovery of pictorial composition of 1971. It includes reflections on the book’s reorientations of the scholarly debate over the relati...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Allan Langdale
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Department of Art History, University of Birmingham 2009-12-01
Series:Journal of Art Historiography
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Online Access:http://arthistoriography.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/media_139142_en.pdf