Download or read book The Traveling Artist in the Italian Renaissance written by David Young Kim and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-12-23 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important and innovative book examines artists' mobility as a critical aspect of Italian Renaissance art. It is well known that many eminent artists such as Cimabue, Giotto, Donatello, Lotto, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Titian traveled. This book is the first to consider the sixteenth-century literary descriptions of their journeys in relation to the larger Renaissance discourse concerning mobility, geography, the act of creation, and selfhood. David Young Kim carefully explores relevant themes in Giorgio Vasari's monumental Lives of the Artists, in particular how style was understood to register an artist's encounter with place. Through new readings of critical ideas, long-standing regional prejudices, and entire biographies, The Traveling Artist in the Italian Renaissance provides a groundbreaking case for the significance of mobility in the interpretation of art and the wider discipline of art history.
Download or read book History of Modern Italian Art written by Ashton Rollins Willard and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stories of the Italian Artists From Vasari written by Giorgio Vasari and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Women Artists in Early Modern Italy written by Sheila Barker and published by Harvey Miller Publishers. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In ten chapters spanning two centuries, this collection of essays examines the relationships between women artists and their publics, both in early modern Italy as well as across Europe. Drawing upon archival evidence, these essays afford abundant documentary evidence about the diverse strategies that women utilized in order to carry out artistic careers, from Sofonisba Anguissola's role as a lady-in-waiting at the court of Philip II of Spain, to Lucrezia Quistelli's avoidance of the Florentine market in favor of upholding the prestige of her family, to Costanza Francini's preference for the steady but humble work of candle painting for a Florentine confraternity. Their unusual life stories along with their outstanding talents brought fame to a number of women artists even in their own lifetimes - so much fame, in fact, that Giorgio Vasari included several women artists in his 1568 edition of artists' biographies. Notably, this visibility also subjected women artists to moral scrutiny, with consequences for their patronage opportunities. Because of their fame and their extraordinary (and often exemplary) lives, works made by women artists held a special allure for early generations of Italian collectors, including Grand Duke Cosimo III de' Medici, who made a point of collecting women's self-portraits. In the eighteenth century, British collectors wishing to model themselves after the Italian virtuosi exhibited an undeniable penchant for the Italian women artists of a bygone era, even though they largely ignored the contemporary women artists in their midst.
Download or read book Leonardo da Vinci written by Justine Ciovacco and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2014-12-15 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young readers may have seen reproductions of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa and even some of his inventions, but there was much more to his genius. Leonardo was also a scientist and a sculptor. He loved the outdoors. This biography allows young readers to get to know Leonardo from his youth in the Italian countryside and then witness how his work as an adult won over noblemen and royalty who paid him for his art. Readers will be introduced to some of Leonardo's most famous and influential work and discover how it continues to influence today's art and science.
Download or read book Understanding Italian Renaissance Painting written by Stefano Zuffi and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filled with great masterpieces, each spread uses an important painting as a way to explain a key concept, with numerous large details. There are also brief biographies of the major artists.
Download or read book The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters Sculptors and Architects written by Giorgio Vasari and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A painter and architect in his own right, Giorgio Vasari (1511-74) achieved immortality for this book on the lives of his fellow Renaissance artists, first published in Florence in 1550. Although he based his work on a long tradition of biographical writing, Vasari infused these literary portraits with a decidedly modern form of critical judgment. The result is a work that remains to this day the cornerstone of art historical scholarship. Spanning the period from the thirteenth century to Vasari’s own time, the Lives opens a window on the greatest personalities of the period, including Giotto, Brunelleschi, Mantegna, Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Titian. This Modern Library edition, abridged from the original text with notes drawn from earlier commentaries, as well as current research, reminds us why The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects is indispensable to any student interested in Renaissance art.
Download or read book Stories of the Italian Artists From Vasari Classic Reprint written by E. L. Seeley and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-19 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Stories of the Italian Artists From Vasari Vasari, and tell the tales as nearly as I can in his own words. His treatment of Raphael has been attributed to prejudice, and indeed he was such a devoted disciple of Michael Angelo, and so vain of his intimacy with the great man, that his judgment could scarcely be unbiassed. Many great names will be missed here, for Vasari's account is often confined to a bare description of the painter's works with a meagre outline of his life; and it must not be forgotten that he did not carry on his history to the later painters, such as Tintoretto and Veronese. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Italian Liqueurs The History and Art of a Creation written by Renato Vicario and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of Painting in Italy from the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the Eighteenth Century written by Luigi Antonio Lanzi and published by . This book was released on 1828 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Lives of the Artists written by Giorgio Vasari and published by Oxford Paperbacks. This book was released on 1998-04-02 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Packed with facts, attributions, and entertaining anecdotes about his contemporaries, Vasari's collection of biographical accounts also presents a highly influential theory of the development of Renaissance art. Beginning with Cimabue and Giotto, who represent the infancy of art, Vasari considers the period of youthful vigour, shaped by Donatello, Brunelleschi, Ghiberti, and Masaccio, before discussing the mature period of perfection, dominated by the titanic figures of Leonardo, Raphael, and Michelangelo. This specially commissioned translation contains thirty-six of the most important lives as well as an introduction and explanatory notes. - ;Packed with facts, attributions, and entertaining anecdotes about his contemporaries, Vasari's collection of biographical accounts also presents a highly influential theory of the development of Renaissance art. Beginning with Cimabue and Giotto, who represent the infancy of art, Vasari considers the period of youthful vigour, shaped by Donatello, Brunelleschi, Ghiberti, and Masaccio, before discussing the mature period of perfection, dominated by the titanic figures of Leonardo, Raphael, and Michelangelo. This specially commissioned translation contains thirty-six of the most important lives as well as an introduction and explanatory notes. - ;Includes: Cimabue; Giotto; Duccio; Luca della Robbia; Paolo Uccello; Ghiberti; Masaccio; Filippo Brunelleschi; Donatello; Piero della Francesca; Fra Angelico; Fra Filippo Lippi; Domenico Ghirlandaio; Sandro Botticelli; Andrea del Verrocchio; Mantegna; Leonardo da Vinci; Giorgione; Raphael; Titian; Michelangelo -
Download or read book Italian Renaissance Art written by Stephen J. Campbell and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new edition--now in two volumes--of the largest and most comprehensive textbook about Italian Renaissance art. Now in its second edition, Italian Renaissance Art presents an updated and even more accessible history. The book has been split into two volumes: the first, covering the period 1300 to 1510; the second, 1490 to 1600. The volumes retain the same innovative decade-by-decade structure as the first edition, and a number of chapters have been revised by the authors to reflect the latest scholarship. The coverage of the Trecento has been expanded, and a new appendix section explains all the key Renaissance art-making techniques, with illustrations and step-by-steps for such processes as lost-wax casting. This book tells the story of art in the great cities of Rome, Florence, and Venice while profiling a range of other centers throughout Italy--including in this edition art from Naples, Padua, and Palermo.
Download or read book The Masterpieces of Italian Art Illustrated written by Charles Blanc and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Vasari s Lives of the Artists written by Giorgio Vasari and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memoirs of Early Italian Painters and of the Progress of Painting in Italy from Cimabue to Bassano written by Mrs. Jameson (Anna) and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of Painting in Italy The schools of Naples Venice Lombardy Mantua Modena Parma Cremona and Milan written by Luigi Lanzi and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of Modern Italian Art written by Ashton Rollins Willard and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ... Saba-J telli, a private academy at Rome, where they all drew from the same model and divided the expense between them. Benvenuti's talent was first discovered by Bishop Marcacci of Arezzo, who obtained for him a pension for study at Florence (1782-1792), and afterward at Rome. It was also this same prelate who gave Benvenuti the commission for his first important work (1794), a fine Martyrdom of S. Donato in the style of Guercino which now hangs over one of the side altars of the cathedral at Arezzo. This painting is worthy of far more attention than it usually receives from the tourist, being not only the choicest painting in the cathedral, but one of the masterpieces of Tuscan art. Inasmuch as the painter chose to adopt a historic style, his work does not clash with its surroundings; and regarded with reference to its own independent merits it is entitled to be considered not only as the masterpiece of Benvenuti, but as one of the five or six best religious pictures of the eighteenth century. The head and face of S. Donato, who kneels in the centre of the tableau, are magnificently painted, and there is nothing in the whole work at which the critic could take offence, except the putti who float in the clouds and extend to the saint the palm of martyrdom. The canvas is kept reverently covered, and is the only work of art in the cathedral to which this honor is accorded. This particular painting made, as it happened, less of a sensation in Italy than the inferior picture of Judith triumphing over Holofernes, which-. Benvenuti painted a few years later on a commission from the same patron. The Judith is a very large canvas, introducing a multitude of figures in dramatic action and when it was first exhibited in 1804, at the Pantheon at...
