Abstract
The writing of art history and criticism in the Italian Renaissance tradition was controlled by the precepts of classical, especially panegyrical rhetoric. This rhetoric of praise and blame aims to benefit morals by means of instruction and edification. Founded on a view of history as moral and Christian, such writing has much in common with the exempla of the Middle Ages. It is a view of history, as of art history, as a form of power and desire, responding to and capable of having an effect on, the social and political structures in which it is embedded.
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