The Companion provides an accessible critical survey of Western visual art theory from sources in Classical, Medieval and Renaissance thought through to contemporary writings.
Plates ix
Notes on Contributors x
Preface xvi
Part I: Tradition and the Academy 1
Introduction: Alberti and the Formation of Modern Art Theory 3
Carolyn Wilde
1 The Classical Concept of Mimesis 19
Göran Sörbom
2 Medieval Art Theory 29
Hugh Bredin
3 Neoplatonist Aesthetics 40
Suzanne Stern-Gillet
4 Renaissance Art Theories 49
François Quiviger
5 Touch, Tactility, and the Reception of Sculpture in Early Modern Italy 61
Geraldine A. Johnson
6 The Spiritual Exercises of Leonardo da Vinci 75
Robert Williams
7 Academic Theory 1550–1800 88
Paul Duro
8 Rhetorical Categories in the Academy 104
Caroline van Eck
9 The Picturesque and its Development 116
Andrew Ballantyne
Part II: Around Modernism 125
10 The Aesthetics of Kant and Hegel 127
Jason Gaiger
11 E. H. Gombrich and the Tradition of Hegel 139
David Summers
12 German Romanticism and French Aesthetic Theory 150
Wendy S. Mercer
13 Expression: Natural, Personal, Pictorial 159
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