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