Figure and Place. Visual order in the era of Quattrocento

Fundamental study of the historian and sociologist of the art of Pierre Francasteller "Figure and place". The visual order in the Quatrocheto era, published in France in 1967, is devoted to the problem of the specific nature and functioning of the figurative sign. On the material of Italian painting of the end of the XIV-XV centuries. The author lines the concept of the visual language, independent and essentially different from all other languages, primarily a verbal, sign system, which, however, as any language, implies special reading rules. Tracking the stages of the formation of the image of the Renaissance system, determined by the author, the evolution of painting until the middle of the XIX century, Pierre Francastelel often distributes the historical roles between the largest masters of this era - Jotto, Gentile da Fabriano, Mazolini and Mazacho, Pierrot Della Francesca and others. It is still a very unexpected theoretical lattice in this book that is still a very unexpected theoretical lattice in this book, which is difficult to overestimate the development of French science on art