Art and History
Images and their Meaning

A 1988 collection of essays that appreciate art as historic evidence shaped by imagination as well as tradition and purpose.

Robert I. Rotberg (Edited by), Theodore K. Rabb (Edited by)

9780521335690, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 24 June 1988

318 pages
22.8 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm, 0.5 kg

This book was originally published in 1988. Although they pursue divergent lines of analysis, these essays by historians and art historians reveal their mutual appreciation of art as historic evidence shaped by imagination as well as tradition and purpose.

1. Introduction Theodore K. Rabb and Jonathan Brown
2. Representing the family Diane Owen Hughes
3. Papal policy Christoph L. Frommel
4. Reinventing heroes in Renaissance Italy Randolph Starn
5. The soldier in Germanic graphic art of the Renaissance J. R. Hale
6. Philip II and the art of the cityscape Richard L. Kagan
7. Enemies of flattery Jonathan Brown
8. The domestication of Majesty Simon Schama
9. The King of France as collector in the seventeenth century Antoine Schnapper
10. Picturing the people Raymond Grew
11. The German Revolution of 1848 and Rethel's Dance of Death Peter Paret
12. The farmer in the works of William Sidney Mount Elizabeth Johns
13. Architects in power Barbara Miller Lane.

Subject Areas: History: theory & methods [HBA]