A Discerning Eye

Release on 19981998 by Richard Offner

Author: Richard Offner

Publisher: Penn State Press

ISBN: 0271017473

Category: Art

Page: 310

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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.

Art

Language: en
Pages: 310

A Discerning Eye

Authors: Richard Offner, Andrew Ladis

Categories: Art

Type: BOOK - Published: 1998 - Publisher: Penn State Press

Language: en
Pages: 114

Italian Paintings: Venetian School

Authors: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), Federico Zeri, Elizabeth E. Gardner

Categories: Painting

Type: BOOK - Published: 1973 - Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Books about Italian Paintings: Venetian School

Language: en
Pages: 119

Italian Paintings

Authors: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), Federico Zeri, Elizabeth E. Gardner

Categories: Art

Type: BOOK - Published: 1980 - Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Museum's Sienese and Central Italian paintings are discussed in alphabetical order by artist, with a brief biography of each.

Language: en
Pages: 98

Italian Paintings

Authors: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), Federico Zeri, Elizabeth E. Gardner

Categories: Mannerism (Art)

Type: BOOK - Published: 1986 - Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Books about Italian Paintings

Language: en
Pages: 500

A Short History of Italian Painting

Authors: Alice Van Vechten Rankin, William Brown

Categories: Art

Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-04-07 - Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Reprint of the original, first published in 1914.