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"Winner of the Charles Rufus Morey Award, College Art Association"
"One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1993"
"In guiding our concentrated attention to the action that unfolds in [a group of paintings by Raphael, Michelangelo, Pontormo, and others that represent the Entombment], the author has taught us to make the relevant connections and thus to see these deeply moving works with fresh eyes."---E. H. Gombrich, New York Review of Books
"Shearman's six lectures contribute significantly to current debates about the interpretation of images, particularly in relation to their reception by the spectators."---Martin Kemp, Times Literary Supplement
"As the author of a brilliant work on Mannerism, in which literature and music were employed to explain characteristic forms, Shearman is eminently qualified for his task. [He] weaves a brilliant account of poetry and painting immortalising the sitter."---Bruce Boucher, The Times
"[Shearman's] argument that the observer, in the artist's mind, was as carefully placed, posed and arranged as the content of the work is sustained by considerable intelligence and scholarship."---Robin Blake, Independent on Sunday

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      Publisher Princeton University Press
      Published 15 August 2023
      ISBN-13 9780691252711
      978-0691252711
      ISBN-10 0691252718
      Also in:
      History of art The arts: general topics

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review
      "Winner of the Charles Rufus Morey Award, College Art Association"
      "One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1993"
      "In guiding our concentrated attention to the action that unfolds in [a group of paintings by Raphael, Michelangelo, Pontormo, and others that represent the Entombment], the author has taught us to make the relevant connections and thus to see these deeply moving works with fresh eyes."---E. H. Gombrich, New York Review of Books
      "Shearman's six lectures contribute significantly to current debates about the interpretation of images, particularly in relation to their reception by the spectators."---Martin Kemp, Times Literary Supplement
      "As the author of a brilliant work on Mannerism, in which literature and music were employed to explain characteristic forms, Shearman is eminently qualified for his task. [He] weaves a brilliant account of poetry and painting immortalising the sitter."---Bruce Boucher, The Times
      "[Shearman's] argument that the observer, in the artist's mind, was as carefully placed, posed and arranged as the content of the work is sustained by considerable intelligence and scholarship."---Robin Blake, Independent on Sunday

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