Sprezzatura by Paolo DAngelo
Product Specifications
- Title: Sprezzatura by Paolo DAngelo
- Author: Paolo DAngelo
- Publisher: Columbia University Press
- Binding: Hardback
- The arts general issues
- No. of pages: 192
- Dimensions (approx. mm): 149 x 223 x 25
Product Description
Paolo D’Angelo traces the history of concealing art—which Italian calls sprezzatura—from ancient rhetoric to our own times. Finding the precept that art must be hidden from cosmetics to interior design politics to poetry the English garden to shabby chic Sprezzatura is an erudite and surprising tour of aesthetics philosophy and art history.