Autor: E. H. Gombrich

Editorial Phaidon

With 250 illustrations. In English. Contents: Light and highlights, The heritage of Apelles. Light, form, and texture in fifteenth-century painting north and south of the Alps; Leonardo Da Vinci's method of analysis and permutation, The form of movement in water and air, The grotesque heads; J Bosch's Garden of Delights, The earliest description of the Triptych, 'As it was in the days of Noe'; Classical rules and national standards, From the revival of letters to the reform of the arts : Niccolo Niccoli and Filippo Brunelleschi, The leaven of criticism in Renaissance art : texts and episodes, The pride of Apelles: Vives, Durer and Bruegel. / Sir Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich, OM, CBE (1909-2001) was an Austrian-born art historian who spent most of his working life in the United Kingdom. He is the author of many works of art criticism and art history.