{"product_id":"2026770000763-secondhand-spelt-from-sibyls-leaves-explorations-in-italian-art","title":"Spelt From Sibyl's Leaves: Explorations In Italian Art","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good                          \u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good                  \u003cbr\u003eMarkings: No markings\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA richly layered work of art criticism and cultural scholarship, Spelt From Sibyl's Leaves: Explorations In Italian Art presents a series of incisive meditations on Italian visual culture, drawing on poetry, history, and aesthetic theory to illuminate the deep currents running beneath the surface of Italian artistic tradition. Luigi Ballerini brings a poet's sensibility and a scholar's rigor to his analyses, arguing that Italian art cannot be fully understood without reckoning with the literary and philosophical frameworks that shaped its creation. The tone throughout is erudite yet impassioned, blending close formal readings with broader cultural and historical contexts in a manner that rewards both specialists and engaged general readers. Ballerini illustrates how canonical and lesser-known works alike participate in an ongoing dialogue between image and text, vision and language, that defines the Italian aesthetic imagination. The result is a compelling and authoritative contribution to the fields of art history and Italian studies.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48826071744731,"sku":"2026770000763-SECONDHAND","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/c7dc0f1f-2aa5-4e7a-8b96-b169c7225433.png?v=1780312016","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026770000763-secondhand-spelt-from-sibyls-leaves-explorations-in-italian-art","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}