Recently, Yilin Publishing House published the classic work "Beauty of the Middle Ages" by the Italian national treasure writer Umberto Echo.
Umberto Echo is an Italian national treasure writer and the world's leading medieval scholar and aesthete. This book is his monograph on medieval artistic concepts and works, which not only subverts the old concept that "the Middle Ages is a dark age" through informative literature and artistic examples, but also quotes in detail how the aesthetic experience of the Middle Ages inherits the traditions of ancient Greece and Rome, and has an impact on future generations with its own unique speculative nature.
The artworks discussed by Echo cover churches, sculptures, jewelry, paintings, music and codices. In his pen, the Middle Ages presents us with a vast aesthetic system: the beauty of light of color, the beauty of proportions of composition, the beauty of the transcendence of divinity, and the beauty of the organism of the universe. These systematic aesthetic ideas are contained in more than 160 high-definition art pictures carefully selected in this book, helping readers to understand medieval art more intuitively and deeply. The beauty of the Middle Ages has been unified in theory and practice through echoes of Aiko's brilliant interpretation and the presentation of high-definition artistic pictures.
It is reported that the book uses a 180 mm × a 250 mm oversized folio to present medieval art works in a large format and with high precision. The inner text is made of 125 grams of art paper, which contains a coating process, which has a stronger color expression than ordinary paper, and has a better feel than the coated paper commonly used in art.
(Original title: "The Middle Ages were the Dark Ages"? Italian national treasure writer Echo published a book to refute! ）
Source: Beijing Daily client | reporter Lu Yanxia
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