History and Its Images: Art and the Interpretation of the Past Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

History and Its Images: Art and the Interpretation of the Past Book

In this engrossing book, an eminent art historian surveys the ways that historians have made use of visual sources-sculptures, paintings, coins, and other relics-in their attempts to understand and visualize the past. Francis Haskell examines the specific objects that were used and discusses a wide range of historians-from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to later writers such as Michelet, Burckhardt, and Huizinga who made inferences from the visual arts to indicate the whole mentality of an age.Read More

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  • 0300059493
  • 9780300059496
  • F Haskell
  • 11 October 1995
  • Yale University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 568
  • New edition
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