Italian Renaissance painting according to genres
By: Jacob Burckhardt ; introduction by Maurizio Ghelardi ; translation by David Britt and Caroline Beamish.
Series: Texts & documents
Publisher: Getty Research Institute
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Los Angeles
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
Subjects: Painting, Renaissance -- Italy -- Themes, motives.; Painting, Italian -- Themes, motives.
Other titles: Texts and documents.
Work titles: Malerei nach Inhalt und Aufgaben.
Notes: "Translation of Jacob Burckhardt, 'Die Malerei nach Inhalt und Aufgaben' (Jacob Burckhardt-Archiv, Privat-Archiv, Staatsarchiv Basel-Stadt, Basel), by David Britt ; translation of Maurizio Ghelardi's introductory essay by Caroline Beamish and David Britt"--Prelim.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-224) and index.
Table of contents: title: On allegory - The cycles - Paintings in monasteries - Confraternities - Paintings in hospitals - Ceremonial paintings - Orbis terrarum - Frescoes of obloquy - Sala del Maggior Consiglio - Secular history painting - Mythological painting - On animal painting.