by LEOPOLD ETTLINGER
Durning Lawrence Professor of the History of Art. University of London
L. D. Ettlinger talks about the new book by E. H. Gombrich Norm and Form, Studies in the Art of the Renaissance. The essays assembled in this volume examine the influence of the Renaissance climate of opinion on both the practice and the criticism of art: but beneath Professor Gombrich's analyses of the Medici as patrons, of Raphael's Madonna delta Sedia, or the style ' all' antica' runs another theme: an examination of that norm which we call Renaissance and of the influence it exerts on our concepts of style in general.