Paolo da Venzia dominated Venetian painting of the first half of the fourteenth century and has often been considered the founder of the Trecento school of painting in Venice. He created in his work a synthesis of Byzantine and Gothic elements which was of fundamental importance for the development of Venetian painting in the second half of the century.In this work Professor Muraro considers some of the complex art historical problems of Paolo s style and development and discusses the historical...
'art comes to you professing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake' In Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1873), a diffident Oxford don produced an audacious and incalculably influential defence of aestheticism. Through his highly idiosyncratic readings of some of the finest paintings, sculptures, and poems of the French and Italian Renaissance, Pater redefined the practice of criticism as an impressionistic, al...
Nur wenige Erfindungen der Menschheitsgeschichte sind in solchem Masse vergessen worden wie wasserbetriebene Musik- und Klangautomaten. Aus dem antiken Instrument der Wasserorgel entwickelten sich in der Neuzeit diverse Formen hydraulischer Automaten, die voellig eigenstandig Naturgerausche und Tierstimmen imitieren konnten oder gar komplexe Musikstucke zum Erklingen brachten. Das vorliegende Buch beleuchtet erstmals systematisch das Phanomen wasserbetriebener Klangerzeugung von der Antike bis z...
During the Italian Wars of 1494 to 1559, with innovations in military technology and tactics, armour began to disappear from the battlefield. Yet as field armour was retired, parade and ceremonial armour grew increasingly flamboyant. Displaced from its utilitarian function of defense but retained for symbolic uses, armour evolved in a new direction as a medium of artistic expression. Luxury armour became a chief accessory in the performance of elite male identity, coded with messages regarding t...
1478 was the year in which Leonardo da Vinci, aged 26, obtained his first official commission and witnessed the Pazzi Conspiracy against the Medici family. In that year, he probably opened his independent workshop, leaving that of his master Andrea del Verrocchio, and, in its final months, he began to paint two paintings representing the Virgin Mary. One of these paintings is very likely the Benois Madonna at the State Hermitage, St. Petersburg; a work that marks a strong change in Leonardo’s st...
Mythological Subjects
by Fiona Healy, Gregory Martin, Elizabeth McGrath, Bert Schepers, and Carl Van de Velde
Shows and describes works by the Italian Renaissance artist.
Focuses on the dilemma of artistic freedom versus the rules of art during the Renaissance in Italy.
How grace shaped the Renaissance in Italy"Grace" emerges as a keyword in the culture and society of sixteenth-century Italy. The Grace of the Italian Renaissance explores how it conveys and connects the most pressing ethical, social and aesthetic concerns of an age concerned with the reactivation of ancient ideas in a changing world. The book reassesses artists such as Francesco del Cossa, Raphael and Michelangelo and explores anew writers like Castiglione, Ariosto, Tullia d'Aragona and Vittoria...
The Tudors
by Elizabeth Cleland, Adam Eaker, Marjorie E Wieseman, and Sarah Bochicchio
A fascinating new look at the artistic legacy of the Tudors, revealing the dynasty’s influence on the arts in Renaissance England and beyond Ruling successively from 1485 through 1603, the five Tudor monarchs changed England indelibly, using the visual arts to both legitimize and glorify their tumultuous rule—from Henry VII’s bloody rise to power, through Henry VIII’s breach with the Roman Catholic Church, to the reign of the “virgin queen” Elizabeth I. With incisive scholarship and sumptuous...
Die Inschriften Der Stadt Greifswald
by Jurgen Herold and Christine Magin
Leonardo Da Vinci - Denker und Wissenschaftler (Prestiges)
by Eugene Muntz
Auguste Renoir Girls in the Meadow Vintage Art Journal
by Epic Love Books
Doge Palace (Great Discoveries Personal Audio Guides: Venice)
by Jim Sweeney