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Reading Artist’s Words

German Romanticisim and French Aesthetic Theory

We cannot suppose we see artists in the form of their art; and when we raise the metaphor of style a power, from the distinc character of the stylus, pen, or hand of an individual to the stylus, pen or hand of a place or time, the Central Italian Style or the Renaissance style — we have introduced even more problems. Place and time in effect become “super artists” anthropomorphic entities in their own right.

Ch. 8 "Rhetorical Categories in the Academy"

Chapter 7, Academic Theory 1550-1800

Chapter 5, Touch, Tactility, and the Reception of Sculpture in Early Modern Italy

Chapter 4, Renaissance Art Theories

Chapter 3, Neoplatonist Aesthetics