description: In this engrossing book, an eminent art historian surveys the ways that historians have made use of visual sources-sculptures, paintings, coins, and other relics-in their attempts to understand and visualize the past. Francis Haskell examines the specific objects that were used and discusses a wide range of historians-from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to later writers such as Michelet, Burckhardt, and Huizinga who made inferences from the visual arts to indicate the whole mentality of an age.
language: English
title: History and Its Images: Art and the Interpretation of the Past
titlecomplete: History and Its Images: Art and the Interpretation of the Past
genres: Theory, Art History, Philosophy, Nonfiction, Art, History
ratings_count: 18
publisher: Yale University Press