4 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
Sri Lankan Tamil metaphysician and art historian who wrote The Dance of Shiva, The Transformation of Nature in Art, and Am I My Brother's Keeper — serving as the first scholar to make Indian and Islamic art accessible to the Western world and developing a metaphysical interpretation of art as the expression of universal principles.
Italian painter, architect, and art historian — author of The Lives — architect of the Uffizi Gallery — Michelangelo's friend — who created art history as a discipline through his biographies of Renaissance artists.
Rembrandt van Rijn was a 17th-century Dutch Golden Age painter celebrated for his mastery of light and shadow (chiaroscuro) and his psychologically penetrating portraits and self-portraits.
A 2016 book by David Hockney and Martin Gayford tracing the history of picture-making from cave paintings to the digital present.