Key Writers on Art: From Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century

Chris Murray

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2005
• ISBN:
  9781134545896
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Art
• Subtopic: Art Theory & Criticism

Key Writers on Art: From Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century offers a unique and authoritative guide to theories of art from Ancient Greece to the end of the Victorian era, written by an international panel of expert contributors. Arranged chronologically to provide an historical framework, the 43 entries analyze the ideas of key philosophers, historians, art historians, art critics, artists and social scientists, including Plato, Aquinas, Alberti, Michelangelo, de Piles, Burke, Schiller, Winckelmann, Kant, Hegel, Burckhardt, Marx, Tolstoy, Taine, Baudelaire, Nietzsche, Ruskin, Pater, Wölfflin and Riegl.
Each entry includes:
* a critical essay
* a short biography
* a bibliography listing both primary and secondary texts
Unique in its range and accessibly written, this book, together with its companion volume Key Writers on Art: The Twentieth Century, provides an invaluable guide for students as well as general readers with an interest in art history, aesthetics and visual culture.

INDEX

Académie Royale 79, 80;

see also Salons

Addison, Joseph 94, 115

aestheticism:

Tolstoy's attack on 173, 176

aesthetics:

Burke's theory 115, 118;

eighteenth-century ideas 115, 122, 130;

Goncourt brothers 165, 168;

Hegel 128;

idealist 13;

Kant's idea of judgement 111–40;

Kierke-gaard's critique 138–5, 140–7;

Lessing's theory 118, 120, 121–3;

Libri Carolini 21;

Nietzsche's vision 187–8, 191;

Pater's criticism 183, 185–4;

Riegl's ideal 195;

Romantic 117, 118, 125, 126;

Schiller 123–9;

Schopenhauer's ideas 134–9;

Shaftesbury 88–13;

Taine's approach 169, 170;

twelfth-century schools 23, 25–2

Agrippa, Heinrich Cornelius 67

Alberti, Leon Battista 4, 32, 40 –8, 47, 51, 63, 78, 148;

De pictura/Della pintura 38–9, 57, 58–4

Alcuin 18 –8

Alhazen 38

alienation: Marx 143

allegorical painting:

Lessing's condemnation of 120

allegory concept:

Shaftesbury 90

Allingham, Helen 153

Amelot, Michel 87

analogy:

medieval aesthetic 6

anatomy:

Florentine approach to study of 56;

Leonardo's studies 47, 48

ancient Greece 119, 122, 125–7;

see also Greek art;

Greek sculpture

Angelico, Fra 152

Angeloni, Francesco 76

antiquarianism:

Bellori 75–6;

Lessing 118;

Winckelmann 101–8, 103–30, 118–50

Apelles 37, 43

Aquinas, St Thomas 26, 27 –8, 66

Arab world:

influence 28

archaeology:

studies 101, 102

architecture:

Alberti's model 40;

Bellori's evaluation 78;

Hegel's ideas 130;

iconographical motifs 193;

Michelang...

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Half Title
• Routledge Key Guides
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Chronological List of Contents
• Alphabetical list of contents
• Notes on contributors
• Preface
• Plato (427–347 BC)
• Aristotle (384–322 BC)
• Plotinus (204/5–70 AD)
• Augustine (354–430)
• Alcuin (c. 735–804) and Theodulf of Orléans (died 821)
• Suger (1081–1151) and Bernard of Clairvaux (1090–1153)
• Thomas Aquinas (1225–74)
• Cennino Cennini (c. 1360—before 1427)
• Lorenzo Ghiberti (1378–1455)
• Leon Battista Alberti (1404–72)
• Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519)
• Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564)
• Pietro Aretino (1492–1556), Paolo Pino (fl. 1534–65) and Lodovico Dolce (1508–68)
• Giorgio Vasari (1511–74)
• Giovan Paolo Lomazzo (1538–1600) and Federico Zuccaro (1543–1609)
• Karel van Mander (1548–1606)
• Giovanni Pietro Bellori (1615–96)
• André Félibien (1619–95)
• Roger de Piles (1635–1709)
• Earl of Shaftesbury (1671–1713)
• William Hogarth (1697–1764)
• Denis Diderot (1713–84)
• Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717–68)
• Joshua Reynolds (1723–92)
• Immanuel Kant (1724–1804)
• Edmund Burke (1729–97)
• Gotthold Lessing (1729–81)
• Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805)
• G.W.F Hegel (1770–1831)
• Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860)
• Søren Kierkegaard (1813–55)
• Karl Marx (1818–83)
• Jacob Burckhardt (1818–97)
• John Ruskin (1819–1900)
• Eugène Fromentin (1820–76)
• Charles Baudelaire (1821–67)
• Edmond (1822–96) and jules (1830–70) de Goncourt
• Hippolyte Taine (1828–93)
• Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910)
• William Morris (1834–96)
• Walter Pater (1839–94)
• Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
• Alois Riegl (1858–1905)
• Index