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Book Allegory and Fact in Giambattista Tiepolo s Four Continents at Wurzburg

Download or read book Allegory and Fact in Giambattista Tiepolo s Four Continents at Wurzburg written by Mark Richard Ashton and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Giambattista Tiepolo

Download or read book Giambattista Tiepolo written by Michael Levey and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The full-length treatment in English of Tiepolo's life and career. Examining in detail the genesis and the achievement of Tiepolo's major accomplishments, and presenting a rich array of illustrations-some never before reproduced - Michael Levey presents the evidence for a deeper understanding and enjoyment of the great Italian artist.

Book Personification

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  • Author : Walter Melion
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • Release : 2016-03-11
  • ISBN : 9004310436
  • Pages : 787 pages

Download or read book Personification written by Walter Melion and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-03-11 with total page 787 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Personification, or prosopopeia, the rhetorical figure by which something not human is given a human identity or ‘face’, is readily discernible in early modern texts and images, but the figure’s cognitive form and function, its rhetorical and pictorial effects, have rarely elicited sustained scholarly attention. The aim of this volume is to formulate an alternative account of personification, to demonstrate the ingenuity with which this multifaceted device was utilized by late medieval and early modern authors and artists in Italy, France, England, Scotland, and the Low Countries. Personification is susceptible to an approach that balances semiotic analysis, focusing on meaning effects, and phenomenological analysis, focusing on presence effects produced through bodily performance. This dual approach foregrounds the full scope of prosopopoeic discourse—not just the what, but also the how, not only the signified, but also the signifier.

Book The Wrightsman Pictures

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  • Author : Jayne Wrightsman
  • Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 1588391442
  • Pages : 454 pages

Download or read book The Wrightsman Pictures written by Jayne Wrightsman and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2005 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lavish catalogue presents 150 European paintings, pastels, and drawings from the late fifteenth to the mid-nineteenth century that have been given to the Metropolitan Museum by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman or are still held in Mrs. Wrightsman's private collection. These notable works were collected over the past four decades, many of them with the Museum in mind; some were purchased by the Museum through the Wrightsman Fund. Highlights of the book include masterpieces by Vermeer, El Greco, Rubens, Van Dyck, Georges de La Tour, Jacques-Louis David, and Caspar David Friedrich as well as numerous paintings by the eighteenth-century Venetian artists Canaletto, Guardi, and the Tiepolos, father and son, plus a dozen remarkable portrait drawings by Ingres. Each work is reproduced in color and is accompanied by a short essay.

Book Global Perspectives in Modern Italian Culture

Download or read book Global Perspectives in Modern Italian Culture written by Guido Abbattista and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-09-22 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global Perspectives in Modern Italian Culture presents a series of unexplored case studies from the sixteenth to the twentieth century, each demonstrating how travellers, scientists, Catholic missionaries, scholars and diplomats coming from the Italian peninsula contributed to understandings of various global issues during the age of early globalization. It also examines how these individuals represented different parts of the world to an Italian audience, and how deeply Italian culture drew inspiration from the increasing knowledge of world ‘Otherness’. The first part of the book focuses on the production of knowledge, drawing on texts written by philosophers, scientists, historians and numerous other first-hand eyewitnesses. The second part analyses the dissemination and popularization of knowledge by focussing on previously understudied published works and initiatives aimed at learned Italian readers and the general public. Written in a lively and engaging manner, this book will appeal to scholars and students of early modern and modern European history, as well as those interested in global history.

Book The Glory of Venice

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  • Author : Jane Martineau
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 1994-01-01
  • ISBN : 0300061862
  • Pages : 536 pages

Download or read book The Glory of Venice written by Jane Martineau and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Venice, home of Tiepolo, Canaletto, Piranesi, Piazzetta, and Guardi, was the most artistic city of 18th-century Italy. This beautiful book examines the whole range of the arts in Venice during the period, including paintings, pastels and gouaches, drawings and watercolors, prints and illustrated books and sculpture. Beautifully illustrated.

Book The Making of European Music in the Long Eighteenth Century

Download or read book The Making of European Music in the Long Eighteenth Century written by D R M Irving and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, author D. R. M. Irving traces the emergence of such large-scale categories as "European music" and "Western music," showing how they originate from self-fashioning in contexts of intercultural comparison outside the European continent rather than the resolution of national aesthetic differences within it. Taken as a whole, this study demonstrates how reductive labels for the musics of a continent or a hemisphere often imply homogeneity and essentialism, and how a renewed critique of primary sources can help dismantle historiographical constructs that arose within narratives of musical pasts involving Europe.

Book Christian Supremacy

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  • Author : Magda Teter
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2025-03-04
  • ISBN : 0691242607
  • Pages : 408 pages

Download or read book Christian Supremacy written by Magda Teter and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2025-03-04 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A panoramic cultural and legal history that traces the roots of antisemitism and racism to early Christian theology Since the earliest days of Christianity, theologians expressed pervasive anxiety about Jews as equal members of society, and, with European expansion in the early modern period, that anxiety extended to people of color. This troubling legacy still haunts us today. Christian Supremacy demonstrates how theological and legal frameworks created by the church centuries ago laid the seeds of antisemitism and anti-Black racism and reveals why Christian identity lies at the heart of the world’s violent white supremacy movements. In a powerful historical narrative spanning nearly two millennia, Magda Teter describes how Christian theology of late antiquity cast Jews as “children born to slavery,” and how the supposed theological inferiority of Jews became inscribed into law, creating tangible structures that reinforced a sense of Christian domination and superiority. With the dawn of European colonialism, a distinct brand of European Christian supremacy found expression in the legally sanctioned enslavement and exploitation of people of color, later taking the form of white Christian supremacy in the New World. Drawing on a wealth of primary evidence ranging from the theological and legal to the philosophical and artistic, Christian Supremacy is a profound reckoning with history that traces the roots of the modern rejection of Jewish and Black equality to an enduring Christian heritage of exclusion, intolerance, and persecution.

Book Architecture and the Language Debate

Download or read book Architecture and the Language Debate written by Nicholas Temple and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-01-28 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the creative exchanges between architects, artists and intellectuals, from the Early Renaissance to the beginning of the Enlightenment, in the forging of relationships between architecture and emerging concepts of language in early modern Italy. The study extends across the spectrum of linguistic disputes during this time – among members of the clergy, humanists, philosophers and polymaths – on issues of grammar, rhetoric, philology, etymology and epigraphy, and how these disputes paralleled and informed important developments in architectural thinking and practice. Drawing upon a wealth of primary source material, such as humanist tracts, philosophical works, architectural/antiquarian treatises, epigraphic/philological studies, religious sermons and grammaticae, the book traces key periods when the emerging field of linguistics in early modern Italy impacted on the theory, design and symbolism of buildings.

Book Exuberant Apotheoses  Italian Frescoes in the Holy Roman Empire

Download or read book Exuberant Apotheoses Italian Frescoes in the Holy Roman Empire written by Daniel Fulco and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the late seventeenth through the mid-eighteenth centuries, large-scale Italian frescoes soared in popularity as nobles in the German principalities of the Holy Roman Empire constructed new palaces at an unprecedented rate. They competed with one another to produce lavish decorative schemes that expressed their claim to princely power and political authority. Whereas previous art historians have primarily focused on iconographic and stylistic issues and generally treated these programs as individual commissions of regional courts, this book places the works of art within their broad cultural and historical contexts during the Enlightenment. This monograph explains how rulers gradually shifted from emphasizing military heroism to stressing their cultivation of the arts and sciences, and addresses how expressing membership in a specifically European civilization emerged as an integral visual theme and a key ambition of the German nobility.

Book Tiepolo

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  • Author : Peter Oluf Krückmann
  • Publisher : Prestel Publishing
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 152 pages

Download or read book Tiepolo written by Peter Oluf Krückmann and published by Prestel Publishing. This book was released on 1996 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the frescos painted by Tiepolo for the Prince Bishop of Wurzburg between 1750 and 1753. The book provides a history of fresco painting and discusses the intricacies, iconography and importance of each scene at Wurzburg, and its development from

Book Infelicities

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  • Author : Peter Mason
  • Publisher : JHU Press
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 9780801858802
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book Infelicities written by Peter Mason and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Infelicities Peter Mason explores the texts, paintings, drawings, photographs, and museum displays in which the exotic has been represented from the early modern period to the present. He describes the unique iconography that Europeans developed to convey the exotic and the means they employed to display it once artifacts were brought to Europe. In both instances, the exotic object is taken out of its original context and given a meaning and significance it never had; this new meaning and significance, Mason argues, are derived from the imposition of European cultural values and the need to recontextualize the object in a European setting.

Book Architecture  Festival and the City

Download or read book Architecture Festival and the City written by Jemma Browne and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-26 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historically the urban festival served as an occasion for affirming shared convictions and identities in the life of the city. Whether religious or civic in nature, these events provided tangible expressions of social, cultural, political, and religious cohesion, often reaffirming a particular shared ethos within diverse urban landscapes. Architecture has long served as a key aspect of this process exhibiting continuity in the flux of these representations through the parading of elaborate ceremonial floats, the construction of temporary buildings, the ‘dressing’ of existing urban space, the alternative occupations of the everyday, and the construction of new buildings and spaces which then become a part of the background fabric of the city. This book examines how festivals can be used as a lens to examine the relationship between city and citizen and questions whether this is fixed through time, or has been transformed as a response to changes in the modern urban condition. Architecture, Festival and the City looks at the multilayered nature of a diverse selection of festivals and the way they incorporate both orderly (authoritative) and disorderly (subversive) components. The aim is to reveal how the civic nature of urban space is utilised through festival to represent ideas of belonging and identity. Recent political and social gatherings also raise questions about the relationship of these events to ‘ritual’ and whether traditional practices can serve as meaningful references in the twenty-first century.

Book Masters of Italian Art

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  • Author : Chantal Eschenfelder
  • Publisher : Konemann
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 146 pages

Download or read book Masters of Italian Art written by Chantal Eschenfelder and published by Konemann. This book was released on 1998 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Venetian painting, which had flourished during the High Renaissance, saw one of its final and yet most brilliant high points in the art of Giambattista Tiepolo. His monumental wall paintings adorned the most important sacred buildings and residences of the ruling houses of the period. Tiepolo's masterpieces include the fresco decorations in the bishop's palace at Wurzburg, which represent a milestone in the history of painting.

Book Gian Domenico Tiepolo and the Flight Into Egypt

Download or read book Gian Domenico Tiepolo and the Flight Into Egypt written by Elise K. Kenney and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book IBZ

    IBZ

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1979
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 632 pages

Download or read book IBZ written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Masters of Art

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  • Author : William Barcham
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1992-04-30
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 138 pages

Download or read book Masters of Art written by William Barcham and published by . This book was released on 1992-04-30 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an informative biographical study of the artist, which is illustrated with thirty-six black and white reproductions representing all phases of Tiepolo's oeuvre and comparative examples by other artists.