Bücher von E. H. Gombrich

Classic volume of essays on visual symbolism in the Renaissance. Pioneering and influential critique of art-historical method that has helped to shape the evolving discipline of art history

Explores questions relating to the nature of representation in art. It asks how we recognize likeness in caricatures or portraits, for instance, and presents the conflicting arguments and opinions of an art historian, a psychologist and a philosopher.

A magisterial examination of the role of decoration in life and art.