Bibliotheca Artibus et Historiae

These essays trace the perception of classical art from antiquity to the present day. The articles focus on the role of restorations and patronage in the development of modern taste, and deal also with the social, psychological, and formal, or iconological, aspects of the response to classical imagery.

A wide-range collection of primary sources – including correspondence, treatises, diaries, contracts by artists, their patrons, and other contemporaries – on the role of the art and the artist in fifteenth-century Italy.

This book, a collection of major essays, provides a representative survey of Jan Białostocki’s (1921-1988) studies in the field of iconological research during the last two decades of his life, as well as a comprehensive approach to the interpretation of art.