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Book The Enduring Legacy of Venetian Renaissance Art

Download or read book The Enduring Legacy of Venetian Renaissance Art written by AndaleebBadiee Banta and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Venetian artistic giants of the sixteenth century, such as Giorgione, Vittore Carpaccio, Titian, Jacopo Sansovino, Jacopo Tintoretto, Paolo Veronese, and their contemporaries, continued to shape artistic development, tastes in collecting, and modes of display long after their own practices ended. The robust reverberation of the Venetian Renaissance spread far beyond the borders of the lagoon to inform and influence artists, authors, and collectors who spent very little or even no time in Venice proper. The Enduring Legacy of Venetian Renaissance Art investigates the historical resonance of Venetian sixteenth-century art and explores its afterlife and its reinvention by artists working in its shadow. Despite being a frequently acknowledged truism, the pervasive legacy of Venetian sixteenth-century art has not received comprehensive treatment in recent publication history. The broad scope of the topics covered in these essays, from Titian's profound influence on the development of landscape painting to the effects of Carpaccio's historical paintings on early twentieth-century fashion, illustrates the persistence and adaptability of the Venetian Renaissance's legacy. In addition to analyzing the effects of individual artists on each other, this volume offers insight into the shifting characterizations and reception of Venice as a center for artistic innovation and inspiration throughout the early modern period, providing a nuanced and multifaceted view of the singular lagoon city and its indelible imprint on the history of art.

Book Renaissance to Rococo

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  • Author : Edgar Peters Bowron
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2004-01-01
  • ISBN : 0300102054
  • Pages : 192 pages

Download or read book Renaissance to Rococo written by Edgar Peters Bowron and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The museum's distinguished director in the 1930s and 1940s, Chick Austin, acquired notable works by Strozzi, Luca Giordano, Claude, and the first authentic Caravaggio in an American museum. Today the Atheneum can present an exhibition beginning with such renaissance masters as Piero di Cosimo and Sebastiano del Piombo, continuing with the finest examples of Baroque painting, and culminating in a blaze of rococo splendor with Tiepolo, Canaletto, Guardi, Melendez, Greuze, and Goya. This catalogue includes a history of the collection by Eric Zafran and entries on the individual paintings by distinguished scholars."--BOOK JACKET.

Book Genoa

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  • Author : Carmen Bambach
  • Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN : 0870997726
  • Pages : 98 pages

Download or read book Genoa written by Carmen Bambach and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1996 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication is a study of technically masterful, even boldly experimental, graphic art that illustrates Genoa's growth by the seventeenth century into an important regional art school. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.

Book Women Making Music

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  • Author : Jane M. Bowers
  • Publisher : University of Illinois Press
  • Release : 1986
  • ISBN : 9780252014703
  • Pages : 428 pages

Download or read book Women Making Music written by Jane M. Bowers and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Do look after my music!" Irene Wienawska Polowski exclaimed before her death in 1932. And from the urgency of that sentiment the authors here have taken their cue to reveal and "look after" the previously neglected contributions of women throughout the history of Western art music. The first work of its kind, Women Making Music presents biographies of outstanding performers and composers, as well as analyses of women musicians as a class, and provides examples of music from all periods including medieval chant, Renaissance song, Baroque opera, German lieder, and twentieth-century composition. Unlike most standard historical surveys, the book not only sheds light upon the musical achievements of women, it also illuminates the historical contexts that shaped and defined those achievements.

Book A Superb Baroque

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  • Author : Jonathan Bober
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2020-04-28
  • ISBN : 0691206511
  • Pages : 385 pages

Download or read book A Superb Baroque written by Jonathan Bober and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Genoa completed its transformation from a faded maritime power into a thriving banking center for Europe in the seventeenth century. The wealth accumulated by its leading families spurred investment in the visual arts on an enormous scale. This volume explores how artists both foreign and native created a singularly rich and extravagant expression of the baroque in works of extraordinary variety, sumptuousness, and exuberance. This art, however, has remained largely hidden behind the facades of the city's palaces, with few works, apart from those by the school's great expatriates, found beyond its borders. As a result, the Genoese baroque has been insufficiently considered or appreciated.0Lavishly illustrated, 'A Superb Baroque' is comprehensive, encompassing all the major media and participants. Presented are some 140 select works by the celebrated foreigners drawn to the city and its flourishing environment. Offering three levels of exploration-essays that frame and interpret, section introductions that characterize principal currents and stages, and texts that elucidate individual works-this volume is by far the most extensive study of the Genoese baroque in the English language.00Exhibition: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA (03.05.-16.08.2020) / Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome, Italy (03.10.2020 - 10.01.2021).

Book NHAMW

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  • Author : James R. Briscoe
  • Publisher : Indiana University Press
  • Release : 2004-08-11
  • ISBN : 9780253216830
  • Pages : 542 pages

Download or read book NHAMW written by James R. Briscoe and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2004-08-11 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This anthology of musical scores is a new edition of a text that has been widely used in courses in women's music. James R. Briscoe's New Historical Anthology compiles fifty-five compositions by forty-six women composers from the ancient Greeks to the present. Each work is introduced by an informative essay by a specialist in the field, with recommendations for further reading."--BOOK JACKET.

Book Syntagma Musicum III

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  • Author : Michael Praetorius
  • Publisher : OUP USA
  • Release : 2004-03-18
  • ISBN : 9780195145632
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book Syntagma Musicum III written by Michael Praetorius and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2004-03-18 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume III deals with terminology and offers us the most detailed commentary available from the 17th century about the performance of particular pieces of music.

Book Jewish Poet and Intellectual in Seventeenth Century Venice

Download or read book Jewish Poet and Intellectual in Seventeenth Century Venice written by Sarra Copia Sulam and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-11-15 with total page 631 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first Jewish woman to leave her mark as a writer and intellectual, Sarra Copia Sulam (1600?–41) was doubly tainted in the eyes of early modern society by her religion and her gender. This remarkable woman, who until now has been relatively neglected by modern scholarship, was a unique figure in Italian cultural life, opening her home, in the Venetian ghetto, to Jews and Christians alike as a literary salon. For this bilingual edition, Don Harrán has collected all of Sulam’s previously scattered writings—letters, sonnets, a Manifesto—into a single volume. Harrán has also assembled all extant correspondence and poetry that was addressed to Sulam, as well as all known contemporary references to her, making them available to Anglophone readers for the first time. Featuring rich biographical and historical notes that place Sulam in her cultural context, this volume will provide readers with insight into the thought and creativity of a woman who dared to express herself in the male-dominated, overwhelmingly Catholic Venice of her time.

Book Oxford History of Western Music

Download or read book Oxford History of Western Music written by Richard Taruskin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-27 with total page 6390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford History of Western Music is a magisterial survey of the traditions of Western music by one of the most prominent and provocative musicologists of our time. This text illuminates, through a representative sampling of masterworks, those themes, styles, and currents that give shape and direction to each musical age. Taking a critical perspective, this text sets the details of music, the chronological sweep of figures, works, and musical ideas, within the larger context of world affairs and cultural history. Written by an authoritative, opinionated, and controversial figure in musicology, The Oxford History of Western Music provides a critical aesthetic position with respect to individual works, a context in which each composition may be evaluated and remembered. Taruskin combines an emphasis on structure and form with a discussion of relevant theoretical concepts in each age, to illustrate how the music itself works, and how contemporaries heard and understood it. It also describes how the c

Book Art Books

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  • Author : Wolfgang M. Freitag
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2013-10-28
  • ISBN : 1134830416
  • Pages : 572 pages

Download or read book Art Books written by Wolfgang M. Freitag and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1997. For this second edition of Art Books: A Basic Bibliography of Monographs on Artists, the vast number of new books published since 1985 was surveyed and evaluated. This has resulted in the selection of 3,395 additional titles. These selections, reflective of the increase in the monographic literature on artists during the last ten years, are evidence of the activities of a larger number of art historians in more countries worldwide, of the increasingly diverse and ambitious exhibition programs of museums whose number has also increased dramatically, and also of a lively international art market and the attendant gallery activities. The selections of the first edition have been reviewed, errors have been corrected and important new editions and reprints have been noted. The second edition contains 278 names of artists not represented in the first edition.

Book Tastes and Temptations

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  • Author : John L. Varriano
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 0520259041
  • Pages : 274 pages

Download or read book Tastes and Temptations written by John L. Varriano and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "John Varriano's book is not only a delightful read but draws fascinating parallels between two hitherto disparate fields: art history and the history of food in the Renaissance. Outstanding scholarship that opens whole new venues of inquiry."--Ken Albala, author of Eating Right in the Renaissance and Beans: A History "Art history and food history have traditionally been separate disciplines, parallel universes. In this book John Varriano makes a cosmic leap and lures the two into a stimulating, provocative, and always entertaining study--a tasting menu of gastronomic and visual delights."--Gillian Riley, author of The Oxford Companion to Italian Food "With wit and erudition, John Varriano shows us how broad cultural relationships can be drawn between the developments of Italian Renaissance art and the period's growing and changing interest in food. Enlightening and fascinating details greatly enhance our understanding of the roles that taste and temptation played in creating the early modern world."--David G. Wilkins, co-editor of History of Italian Renaissance Art "Appetites for palate and palette are both whetted in Varriano's urbane and thoroughly magisterial study. What could be more satisfying than to feast on food and art together at the same historic table?"--Patrick Hunt, author of Renaissance Visions

Book Autobiographies

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  • Author : William Butler Yeats
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2010-06-15
  • ISBN : 1451603037
  • Pages : 568 pages

Download or read book Autobiographies written by William Butler Yeats and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats, Volume III: Autobiographies is part of the fourteen-volume series overseen by eminent Yeats scholars Richard J. Finnerah and George Mills Harper. The series includes virtually all of the Nobel laureate's published work, with authoritative and explanatory notes. Autobiographies consists of six autobiographical works -- Reveries Over Childhood and Youth, The Trembling of the Veil, Dramatis Personae, Estrangement, The Death of Synge, and The Bounty of Sweden -- that William Butler Yeats published together in the mid-1930s to form a single, extraordinary memoir of the first fifty-eight years of his life, from his earliest memories of childhood to winning the Nobel Prize for Literature. This volume provides a vivid series of personal accounts of a wide range of figures, and it describes Yeats's work as poet and playwright, as a founder of Dublin's famed Abbey Theatre, his involvement with Irish nationalism, and his fascination with occultism and visions. This book is most compelling as Yeats's own account of the growth of his poetic imagination. Yeats thought that a poet leads a life of allegory, and that his works are comments upon it. Autobiographies enacts his ruling belief in the connections and coherence between the life that he led and the works that he wrote. It is a vision of personal history as art, and so it is the one truly essential companion to his poems and plays. Edited by William H. O'Donnell and Douglas N. Archibald, this volume is available for the first time with invaluable explanatory notes and includes previously unpublished passages from candidly explicit first drafts.

Book DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Italian Riviera

Download or read book DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Italian Riviera written by DK Travel and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-03-21 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Look at the blue water of the Mediterranean, explore beautiful beaches, and eat fresh, delicious food on the Italian Riviera. See history, art, and more in this special region. Discover DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Italian Riviera. + Detailed itineraries and "don't-miss" destination highlights at a glance. + Illustrated cutaway 3-D drawings of important sights. + Floor plans and guided visitor information for major museums. + Guided walking tours, local drink and dining specialties to try, things to do, and places to eat, drink, and shop by area. + Area maps marked with sights. + Detailed city maps include street finder indexes for easy navigation. + Insights into history and culture to help you understand the stories behind the sights. + Hotel and restaurant listings highlight DK Choice special recommendations. With hundreds of full-color photographs, hand-drawn illustrations, and custom maps that illuminate every page, DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Italian Riviera truly shows you this region as no one else can.

Book DK Eyewitness Travel Guide  Italian Riviera

Download or read book DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Italian Riviera written by Dorling Kindersley and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your holiday starts the moment you open the guide ... "The best guide available. Packed to the brim with colour photos, maps and essential information." Amazon Reader review. From charming, unspoilt fishing villages to jet-set gems such as glorious Portofino; tiny hill villages to the splendid mansions and fine museums of Genoa; sun-soaked beaches to wild and beautiful national wildlife parks – the Italian Riviera has it all. This updated and expanded edition of the DK Eyewitness Travel Guide recommends the best hotels and restaurants offering delicious regional cuisine and wines, and provides detailed coverage, including cutaways and floor-plans of all the major sights. This guide, with its hundreds of photographs, detailed maps of all the towns and regions, and unique watercolour illustrations, is an indispensable passport to the very best the Italian Riviera has on offer. Winner of the Guardian & Observer ‘Best Guide Books' Award and Wanderlust Magazine Silver Award for 'Top Guidebook'

Book Payne s Royal Dresden Gallery

Download or read book Payne s Royal Dresden Gallery written by Albert Henry Payne and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Italian Riviera

Download or read book DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Italian Riviera written by DK and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-03-03 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Italian Riviera uses unparalleled photography, 3-D illustrated maps, and specially commissioned cutaway illustrations of major architectural sights to help you uncover the secrets of this beautiful region. Detailed street views of all the key areas to visit give you the option to sample the nightlife, explore the best beaches and ports for top-notch entertainment and outstanding local markets, and sail around this magnificent destination on your next vacation. Detailed listings will guide you to hotels, restaurants, bars, and shops for all budgets. What's new in DK Eyewitness Travel Guides: -New itineraries based on length of stay, regional destinations, and themes. -Brand-new hotel and restaurants listings including DK's Choice recommendations. -Restaurant locations plotted on redrawn area maps and listed with sights. -Redesigned and refreshed interiors make the guides even easier to read. With hundreds of full-color photographs, hand-drawn illustrations, and custom maps that brighten every page, DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Italian Riviera truly shows you this destination as no one else can. Now available in PDF format.

Book The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art

Download or read book The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art written by Cleveland Museum of Art and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: