Abstract
Julius Caesar opens his treatise The Gallic Wars by commenting that “Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres” (“all Gaul is divided into three parts”). One opens Ruth Bernard Yeazell”s Picture Title...
Highlights
176 BOOK REVIEWS as-yet-untitled paintings into various categories: a landscape, a portrait
Yeazell argues that we must look to the late seventeenth century to discover the origins of the historical process that has brought us to our current understanding of pictures and the titles that accompany them
The eighteenth century witnessed the advent of the public display of paintings
Summary
176 BOOK REVIEWS as-yet-untitled paintings into various categories: a landscape, a portrait. An initial distinction is drawn between the perceptual acts of reading the words of a title and looking at the painted image. Yeazell argues that we must look to the late seventeenth century to discover the origins of the historical process that has brought us to our current understanding of pictures and the titles that accompany them. Cataloguers provided descriptions of the various works of art.
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