Story and space in Renaissance art
Subtitle: the rebirth of continuous narrative
By: Lew Andrews.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Cambridge [England]; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 188
Subjects: Narrative painting, Italian; Narrative painting, Renaissance -- Italy; Perspective
Description: The Rebirth of Continuous Narrative focuses on a puzzling but ubiquitous feature of Renaissance art: continuous narrative, in which several episodes, each including the same characters, are shown in a single space or setting. Continuous narratives have often been considered to be incompatible with the new system of representing space, one-point perspective, which has been traditionally understood to freeze time as it unifies pictorial space.

In this study, Lew Andrews reassesses the problem and offers a new interpretation of continuous narrative.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 166-182) and index.