A decaying palazzo on a hilltop near the Adriatic coast, and in the basement, cobwebbed and dusty, an archive unknown to scholars. Here, a young graduate student from Rome makes a discovery that inspires a search for a painting lost for almost two centuries. The artist was Carav…
Ved at analysere Picasso's portræt af Kahnweiler, Chardin's En dame der drikker te, og Piero Della Francesca's Kristi dåb diskuterer Baxandall malernes hensigt og den kultur hvorfra han henter sine ressourcer. Han reflekterer over, hvor vidt vi kan forstå en kunstner fra en ande…
"Distinguished art historian Michael Baxandall here discusses the historical understanding of works of art: how we can discover the intentions of an artist living in a different time and culture and to what extent we can test and evaluate a historical interpretation of a picture…
An enquiry into the historical understanding of pictures - something sought not only by art historians but by anyone who looks at a picture in the knowledge that it is old or comes out of a culture different from their own.