The Rise of the Image Essays on the History of the Illustrated Art Book

Contents: Introduction, Rodney Palmer; 17th-century illustrations for the chapters on motion in Leonardo's Trattato, Juliana Barone; 'The outer man tends to be a guide to the inner': the woodcut portraits in Vasari's Lives as parallel texts, Sharon Gregory; 'Of little or even no importance to the architect': on absent ideals in Serlio's drawings in the sixth book on domestic architecture, Vaughan Hart; 'Brevity without obscurity': text and image in the architectural treatises of Daniele Barbaro and Andrea Palladio, Robert Tavernor; 'The beauty and majesty of images': Pietro da Cortona's Barberini Ceiling in Teti's Aedes Barberinae, Thomas Frangenberg; 'All is very plain, upon inspection of the figure': the visual method of Andrea Pozzo's Perspectiva Pictorum et Architectorum, Rodney Palmer; Photography in 19th-century art publications, Anthony Hamber; 'Still a makeshift'?: Changing representations of the Renaissance in 20th-century art books, Valerie Holman; Index.