TABLE OF ILLUSTRATIONS

PREFACE

I. INTRODUCTION

1. The Promise of New Aesthetics

A. Texts from Petrarch and Boccaccio

2. The Heritage of the Old Aesthetics

3. Periods in Modem Aesthetics

4. Literature on Modem Aesthetics

II. THE YEAR 1400

A-1. Texts from Cennini

III. THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY

1. The Renaissance

2. The Philosophy of the Renaissance

3. Arts and the Theory of Art

B. Texts of Fifteenth-Century Art Theorists

4. The Aesthetics of Nicholas of Cusa

C. Texts from Nicholas of Cusa

5. The Aesthetics of the Humanists

D. Texts from the Humanists and Savonarola

6. Alberti

E. Texts from Alberti

7. The Aesthetics of the Florentine Academy

F. Texts from Ficino

IV. THE YEAR 1500

1. The Theory of Art of the Classical Renaissance

G. Texts from Raphael, Castiglione, Bembo, Pico, Leone Ebreo

2. The Aesthetics of Leonardo da Vinci

H. Texts from Leonardo da Vinci

V. THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY

1. The Aesthetics of Michelangelo

I. Texts from Michelangelo and de Hollanda

2. The Aesthetics of Mannerism

J. Texts from Pontormo and Cardano

3. The Poetics of the Sixteenth Century

K. Texts on Poetics of the Sixteenth Century

4. The Sixteenth-Century Theory of the Visual Arts

L. Texts from Theoreticians of Art of the Sixteenth Century

5. Emblematics and Iconology

M. Texts from Ripa and Menestrier

6. The Theory of Music

N. Texts from Renaissance Musicologists

7. Dürer’s Aesthetics and Central European Art Theory

O. Texts from Diirer and Erasmus

8. Aesthetics in France: The Poets and Montaigne

O-1. Texts from the Pleiade, Montaigne and Malherbe

9. A Summary of Sixteenth-Century Aesthetics

VI. THE YEAR 1600

1. The Events of the Year 1600

2. Italian Aesthetics

P. Texts from Patrizi, Bruno, Zabarella and Galileo

3. English Aesthetic

Q. Texts from Sidney, Shakespeare and Bacon

4. The Aesthetics of Spain and Poland

R. Texts from Cervantes, Lope de Vega and Sarbiewski

VII. THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY

1. The Changed Circumstances

2. Baroque Aesthetics

S. Texts from Rubens, Baldinucci and Charron

3. The Revival of Classical Aesthetics: Poussin

T. Texts from Poussin and Bellori

4. The Poetics of the Seventeenth Century

U. Texts from French Poets and Writers on Poetics of the Seventeenth Century

5. Seventeenth-Century Philosophers and Aesthetics

V. Texts from Seventeenth-Century Philosophers

6. The Aesthetics of Literary Mannerism

W. Texts from Sarbiewski, Gracián, Bouhours and Tesauro

7. The Theory of Painting in the Seventeenth Century

X. Texts from Art Theorists from Félibien to de Piles and Sandrart

8. The Theory of Architecture in the Seventeenth Century

X-1. Texts from Seventeenth-Century Theorists of Architecture

VIII. THE YEAR 1700

1. The Aesthetics of the French

Y. Texts from André, Crousaz and Dubos

2. The Aesthetics of the Italians

Z. Texts from Muratori, Gravina and Vico

IX. THE END OF THE EPOCH

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