Dangerous disorder: ‘confusione’ in sixteenth-century Italian art treatises

This article examines the troubled history of the word confusione as it was employed by a number of well-known art-critical and -theoretical writers of the Italian Renaissance. Beginning with De pictura, the foundational treatise of Leon Battista Alberti, this study traces the applications of the wo...

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Main Author: Caroline Anjali Ritchie
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Department of Art History, University of Birmingham 2020-12-01
Series:Journal of Art Historiography
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Online Access:https://arthistoriography.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/ritchie.pdf