Book contents
- The Intellectual Education of the Italian Renaissance Artist
- The Intellectual Education of the Italian Renaissance Artist
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Preface
- Introduction
- One Mechanical Arts versus Liberal Arts and Recommendations for the Artist’s Education
- Two Educational Places and Opportunities
- Three The Mediating Texts
- Four Vitruvius and Pliny as Sourcebooks, Educational Landmarks, and Intellectual Challenge
- Conclusion
- Book part
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
One - Mechanical Arts versus Liberal Arts and Recommendations for the Artist’s Education
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 August 2021
Book contents
- The Intellectual Education of the Italian Renaissance Artist
- The Intellectual Education of the Italian Renaissance Artist
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Preface
- Introduction
- One Mechanical Arts versus Liberal Arts and Recommendations for the Artist’s Education
- Two Educational Places and Opportunities
- Three The Mediating Texts
- Four Vitruvius and Pliny as Sourcebooks, Educational Landmarks, and Intellectual Challenge
- Conclusion
- Book part
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The Renaissance inherited an epoch-making discussion on the value of the mechanical arts versus the liberal arts, on the ranking of the three visual arts in comparison with the liberal arts resulting in an early paragone debate, and on the intellectual education required for the three visual arts that derived from the other two debates. The painter and printmaker Jacopo de’Barbari, active in Italy and Saxony, and the Italian encyclopedist Ambrogio Calepino epitomized the two extreme ends of the possible spectrum of opinions regarding these three topics.
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021