1st Edition
Picturing Art History The Rise of the Illustrated History of Art in the Eighteenth Century
By Ingrid Vermeulen
Copyright 2010
360 Pages
by
Routledge
360 Pages
by
Routledge
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Books on art history are nearly always lavishly illustrated with quality colour reproductions of famous masterpieces. Yet this has not always been the case: it was only in the eighteenth century that art books came to be illustrated with beautiful images. Picturing Art History shows how the fundamentally new notion of the history of art as a visual history was responsible for this development.... Read more
Introduction, 1 Unfulfilled Projects to Illustrate Vasari, 2 The Artistic Past at a Glance, 3 The ‘Histoire de l’Art par les Monumens’, Conclusion, Appendices, Archival Material, Notes, Bibliography, Index, Illustration Credits
Biography
INGRID R. VERMEULEN is Associate Professor of Early-Modern Art History at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Her research focuses on the early-modern history of art history grounded in art literature, collections, and museums. It generated the book Picturing Art History (2010) and the project The Artistic Taste of Nations (2015) funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). .
