The Birth of Western Painting

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Cover; The Birth of Western Painting; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; 1. The Tradition of Interpretational Art; 2. The Beginnings of Interpretation; I. An Examination of the Existing Monuments to show the Change Produced in Byzantine Art by theIconoclast Controversy; II. The Ignominy Implicit in Representational Art; III. The Tradition of Idolatry and Defence of Religious Art; IV. The Tradition of Iconoclasm and the Censure of Art; V. The General Impulse to Religious Purism throughout the Near East and Its Effect in Constantinople.;First published in 1930, this book deals with Byzantine art, not as an isolated province, but as one intimately connected with the subsequent history of European painting. After a summary of the whole question in its relation to modern art, the second chapter opens with a novel analysis of the iconoclast controversy, and shows how it was only by this movement that Hellenistic naturalism was finally vanquished and the seed of interpretational art planted in Europe in its stead. The third chapter reveals how this seed was nourished by the Constantinopolitan Renascence, and how that event, com.