Renaissance Rhetoric as a Source of Questions about Art

Peter Mack (Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick) This is a very lightly edited text of a lecture given by Prof. Peter Mack to the Seminar for Art History in Basel on 10 December 2014 at the invitation of Prof. Dr Andreas Beyer. It includes material used in lectures in Senate House, University of London, at Hangzhou and at the Warburg Institute. It represents an effort to imagine a future Iconology informed by ideas taken from rhetoric, as a contributi..