Landscape and the Visual Hermeneutics of Place, 1500-1700
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2020
Language: eng
Number of pages: 579
ISBN-13: 9789004436220
Subjects: Arts
Description: "This volume examines the image-based methods of interpretation that pictorial and literary landscapists employed between 1500 and 1700. The seventeen essays ask how landscape, construed as the description of place in image and/or text, more than merely inviting close viewing, was often seen to call for interpretation or, better, for the application of a method or principle of interpretation"--