Art Theory
Subtitle: An Historical Introduction
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Limited
Published: January 1, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9781405107068
Subjects: Baroque art; Design styles: from c 1900 -; History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900; History of art: c 500 CE to c 1400; Renaissance art; Theory of art; Modern period, c 1500 onwards; c 1000 CE to c 1500; History - General; Art; Art & Art Instruction; ART_HISTORY; Art / History / General; History; Reference
First sentence: Ancient Greece and Rome produced a large and varied literature about the visual arts, but little is left of it, and the only theoretical text to survive in its entirety is the treatise On Architecture by Vitruvius.