Joachim Tielke was an outstanding instrument maker in the Baroque period who is famous above all for his elaborately decorated works. The book presents new instruments made by him that have only recently become known. This has made it possible to expand on various aspects of his work and to clarify questions regarding dating more precisely. This book provides new insights into Tielke's work and supplements the extensive volume Joachim Tielke. Kunstvolle Musikinstrumente des Barock (2011).
In Painting as Medicine in Early Modern Rome, Frances Gage undertakes an in-depth study of the writings of the physician and art critic Giulio Mancini. Using Mancini's unpublished treatises as well as contemporary documents, Gage demonstrates that in the early modern world, belief in the transformational power of images was not limited to cult images, as has often been assumed, but applied to secular ones as well. This important new interpretation of the value of images and the motivations und...
Nicknamed 'the French Borromini', Gilles Marie Oppenord (1672-1742) was born in Paris, the son of a royal cabinet maker. He was a royal pensioneer at the Academie de France in Rome. There he devoted much of his studies to Mannerist and Baroque architecture and ornament and the Louvre's carnet (acquired in 1972) is a testament to this period of intense study. Only three sketchbooks of this period survive. When he returned to Paris he was trained as an architect by Jules-Hardouin Mansart and he so...
A truly original painter Diego Velázquez is widely recognized as one of the finest artists of all time. Find out how this 17th-century master introduced naturalism and realism into his Spanish court paintings. Exploring art from the end of the Middle Ages to the beginning of the 20th-century these indispensable guides are ideal for both students and enthusiasts. Each volume focuses on the life of one extraordinary artist through their work and is lavishly illustrated with more than 300 vibrant...
In 1939, the Ashmolean Museum received a bequest of ninety-four still-life paintings by Dutch and Flemish artists, assembled over many years by Theodore and Daisy Linda Ward. The collections - known as the Daisy Linda Ward bequest - is one of the most important of its kind. The original catalogue of the collection written by Professor J.G. van Gelder and published in 1950, has long been out of print. Knowledge of the subject also changed significantly since 1950. The present catalogue written by...
The Visual Culture of Violence after the French Revolution traces four sites of spectatorship that exemplified the visual culture of violence in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, offering a new account of the significance of violent spectacle to the birth of modernity. Considerations of the execution scaffold, salon painting, print culture and the fait divers, and waxworks displays establish the centrality of spectatorial violence to experiences of selfhood in the wake of the F...
Felsina Pittrice (Felsina Pittrice: The Lives of the Bolognese Painters, #2)
by Carlo Cesare Malvasia, Elizabeth Cropper, and Lorenzo Pericolo
Andrea Di Michelangelo Ferrucci (I Maestri Dell'accademia Di Belle Arti Di Firenze)
by Sandro Bellesi
The first complete monograph of the extraordinarily inventive work of Luigi Valadier, arguably the greatest silver- and goldsmith in eighteenth-century Italy. Luigi Valadier (17261785) was an extraordinarily inventive Roman metalsmith, talented draughtsman, and maker of both table decorations and objects in gilt bronze, marble, and hard stone. His exquisite table centrepieces - produced for popes, royalty, and aristocrats, in Rome, as well as in France, England, Spain and Portugal - were cons...
Eighteenth-Century Ceramics (Studies in Design and Material Culture)
by Sarah Richards
Using documents, diaries, novels and conventions of the time, this volume describes the social uses and cultural meanings of fine ceramics in the 18th century: porcelain, blue and white earthenware and creamwares. Rather than placing the objects themselves at the centre, this approach focuses on the people who used, criticized, sold and stole them, and investigates the impact these products had on the practical and imaginative lives of the 18th-century middle class. These "middling sort" of peop...
Call for Justice highlights the rich and fascinating interaction between art, the practice of law and the idea of justice in the territories governed by the Great Council of Mechelen when at the height of its powers. Works of art from the Burgundian Low Countries dating from the mid-fifteenth to mid-seventeenth century are situated within the turbulent legal, political and cultural context in which they were created: the unification of the Netherlands, the increasingly absolutist administration...
From the late 16th to the end of the 18th centuries, when Brazil was a Portuguese colony, painting and sculpture was almost entirely religious in nature. Fired with zeal for the conversion of the indigenous peoples of Brazil, Jesuit, Franciscan and Benedictine missionaries exploited the sensory impact of painting, sculpture, music and drama to promote the faith there. The opulent, majestic and theatrical Catholicism that gradually took root appealed to the imagination and to the senses -- as did...