The Roman author Pliny tells the story - well known in the Renaissance - of the famous Greek painter Apelles hiding behind one of his pictures to overhear the comments of spectators. Martin Kemp takes this motif as an effective point of entry into the problem of what lies behind the business of picture-making in the Renaissance, in particular the role of the artist and the function of works of art in relation to their various kinds of audience.
- ISBN10 0300071957
- ISBN13 9780300071955
- Publish Date 22 December 1997
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 11 July 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Yale University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 322
- Language English