Title: Symbolic images /
Authors: Gombrich, E. H. 1909-2001.
Publisher: Phaidon,
Year: 1978
Subjects: Art, Renaissance; Symbolism in art.
Abstract: These studies on the interpretation of images focus on the greatest artists of the Renaissance - notably Botticelli, Leonardo, Raphael and Michelangelo - and all reflect the author's concern with standards, values and problems of method.
Contents: Introduction: aims and limits of iconology -- Tobias and the angel -- Botticelli's mythologies: a study inthe neo-Platonic symbolism of his circle -- An interpretation of Mantegna's 'Parnassus' -- Raphael's Stanza della Segnatura and the nature of its symbolism -- Hypnerotomachiana -- The Sala dei Venti in the Palazzo del Te -- The suject of Poussin's Orion -- Icones symbolicae: philosophies of symbolism and their bearing on art.