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Book De El Bosco a Tiziano

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  • Author : Fernando Checa Cremades
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2013
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 324 pages

Download or read book De El Bosco a Tiziano written by Fernando Checa Cremades and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Spanish Habsburgs and Dynastic Rule  1500   1700

Download or read book The Spanish Habsburgs and Dynastic Rule 1500 1700 written by Elisabeth Geevers and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-06-19 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing a novel research methodology for students and scholars with an interest in dynasties, at all levels, this book explores the Spanish Habsburg dynasty that ruled the Spanish monarchy between c. 1515 and 1700. Instead of focusing on the reigns of successive kings, the book focuses on the Habsburgs as a family group that was constructed in various ways: as a community of heirs, a genealogical narrative, a community of the dead and a ruling family group. These constructions reflect the fact that dynasties do not only exist in the present, as kings, queens or governors, but also in the past, in genealogies, and in the future, as a group of hypothetical heirs. This book analyses how dynasties were ‘made’ by the people belonging to them. It uses a social institutionalist framework to analyse how family dynamics gave rise to practices and roles. The kings of Spain only had limited power to control the construction of their dynasty, since births and deaths, processes of dynastic centralisation, pressure from subjects, relatives’ individual agency, rivalry among relatives and the institutionalisation of roles limited their power. Including several genealogical tables to support students new to the Spanish Habsburgs, this book is essential reading for all students of early modern Europe and the history of monarchy. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Book Incomparable Realms

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  • Author : Jeremy Robbins
  • Publisher : Reaktion Books
  • Release : 2022-06-20
  • ISBN : 1789145384
  • Pages : 368 pages

Download or read book Incomparable Realms written by Jeremy Robbins and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2022-06-20 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sumptuous history of Golden Age Spain that explores the irresistible tension between heavenly and earthly realms. Incomparable Realms offers a vision of Spanish culture and society during the so-called Golden Age, the period from 1500 to 1700 when Spain unexpectedly rose to become the dominant European power. But in what ways was this a Golden Age, and for whom? The relationship between the Habsburg monarchy and the Roman Catholic Church shaped the period, with both constructing narratives to bind Spanish society together. Incomparable Realms unpicks the impact of these two historical forces on thought and culture and examines the people and perspectives such powerful projections sought to eradicate. The book shows that the tension between the heavenly and earthly realms, and in particular the struggle between the spiritual and the corporeal, defines Golden Age culture. In art and literature, mystical theology and moral polemic, ideology, doctrine, and everyday life, the problematic pull of the body and the material world is the unacknowledged force behind early modern Spain. Life is a dream, as the title of Calderón’s famous play of the period proclaimed, but there is always a body dreaming it.

Book Historia m  nima de Espa  a

Download or read book Historia m nima de Espa a written by Juan Pablo Fusi and published by Turner. This book was released on 2016-04 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Una brevísima historia de España desde Altamira hasta el siglo XXI en 300 páginas (el que incluyen cronología, bibliografía y mapas originales) escrita por uno de los historiadores más prestigiosos de nuestro país: Juan Pablo Fusi. Un libro imprescindible para lectores de todas las edades, conocedores o no de la historia de España, para recordar, reflexionar, aprender o imaginar. La tesis del autor es que la historia siempre ha podido ser otra, que la historia no está determinada ni es inevitable. Con mapas originales, diseñados en exclusiva para este libro por Javier Belloso (colaborador del suplemento El Viajero de El País) Juan Pablo Fusi (San Sebastián, 1945) catedrático de Historia Contemporánea de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, doctor en Historia y en Filosofía. En el extranjero se formó en Oxford con el profesor Raymond Carr. Entre 1976 y 1980 fue director del Centro de Estudios Ibéricos del St. Antony’s College de esa universidad. Entre 1986 y 1991 fue director de la Biblioteca Nacional (Madrid).

Book The Man Who Broke Michelangelo   s Nose

Download or read book The Man Who Broke Michelangelo s Nose written by Felipe Pereda and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2024-04-04 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renaissance sculptor Pietro Torrigiano has long held a place in the public imagination as the man who broke Michelangelo’s nose. Indeed, he is known more for that story than for his impressive prowess as an artist. This engagingly written and deeply researched study by Felipe Pereda, a leading expert in the field, teases apart legend and history and reconstructs Torrigiano’s work as an artist. Torrigiano was, in fact, one of the most fascinating characters of the sixteenth century. After fighting in the Italian wars under Cesare Borgia, the Florentine artist traveled across four countries, working for such patrons as Margaret of Austria in the Netherlands and the Tudors in England. Toriggiano later went to Spain, where he died in prison, accused of heresy by the Inquisition for breaking a sculpture of the Virgin and Child that he had made with his own hands. In the course of his travels, Torrigiano played a crucial role in the dissemination of the style and the techniques that he learned in Florence, and he interacted with local artisanal traditions and craftsmen, developing a singular terracotta modeling technique that is both a response to the authority of Michelangelo and a unique testimony to artists’ mobility in the period. As Pereda shows, Torrigiano’s life and work constitute an ideal example to rethink the geography of Renaissance art, challenging us to reconsider the model that still sees the Renaissance as expanding from an Italian center into the western periphery.

Book Peque  a Historia del Museo del Prado

Download or read book Peque a Historia del Museo del Prado written by Jaime García Padrino and published by Editorial Mediterrània, SL. This book was released on 2017-09-20 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Esta pequeña historia acerca a los niños y niñas, de manera amena y rigurosa, el arte a través de la presentación del Museo del Prado. La historia explica la evolución de este museo tanto a nivel arquitectónico como a nivel artístico, nombrando las importantes obras de arte que ha ido incorporando a lo largo del tiempo. El texto va acompañado de las ilustraciones a todo color de Pilarín Bayés.

Book Tiziano y el Martirio de San Lorenzo de El Escorial

Download or read book Tiziano y el Martirio de San Lorenzo de El Escorial written by Carmen García-Frías Checa and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Los Bassano en la Espa  a del Siglo de Oro

Download or read book Los Bassano en la Espa a del Siglo de Oro written by Miguel Falomir Faus and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Portraiture  Gender  and Power in Sixteenth Century Art

Download or read book Portraiture Gender and Power in Sixteenth Century Art written by Noelia García Pérez and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-03-05 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exciting and wide-ranging volume examines the construction and dissemination of the image of female power during the Renaissance. Chapters examine the creation, promotion, and display of the image of women in power, and how the artistic and cultural patronage they developed helped them craft a self-image that greatly contributed to strengthening their power, consolidating their political legitimacy, and promoting their authority. Contributors cover diverse models of sixteenth-century female power: from ruling queens, regents, and governors, to consorts of sovereigns and noblewomen outside the court. The women selected were key political figures and patrons of art in England, France, Castile, the Low Countries, the Holy Roman Empire, and Italian city states. The volume engages with crucial and controversial debates regarding the nature and use of portraiture as well as the changing patterns of how portraits were displayed, building a picture of the principal iconographic solutions and representational strategies that artists used. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, gender studies, women’s studies, and Renaissance studies.

Book Hispania

Download or read book Hispania written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. 1 includes "Organization number," published Nov. 1917.

Book Artibus Et Historiae

Download or read book Artibus Et Historiae written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book ABISMOS

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  • Author : Maria Martha Calvo
  • Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
  • Release : 2014-02-28
  • ISBN : 1493176536
  • Pages : 228 pages

Download or read book ABISMOS written by Maria Martha Calvo and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-02-28 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Resumen de la novela «Abismos». María Martha Calvo Parecería que la vida se ha empeñado en empujarlas hasta el mismo borde, pero su inquebrantable unión salva, en múltiples ocasiones, de caer en las profundidades del abismo a las hermanas Queta y Tula. El hábito de tomarse de las manos —desarrollado desde el vientre materno— y comunicarse con palabras solo conocidas por ellas les proporciona la fuerza necesaria para enfrentar las situaciones angustiosas, poniendo una vez más en evidencia el conocido vínculo que une a los mellizos. Las aventuras —y desventuras— de Queta y Tula ofrecen al lector una gira turística por diferentes localidades del Perú, España y Argentina, logrando esta novela su propósito de entretener al mismo tiempo que proporcionar información.

Book Titian Remade

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  • Author : Maria H. Loh
  • Publisher : Getty Publications
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 9780892368730
  • Pages : 220 pages

Download or read book Titian Remade written by Maria H. Loh and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2007 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This insightful volumes the use of imitation and the modern cult of originality through a consideration of the disparate fates of two Venetian painters - the canonised master Titian and his artistic heir, the little-known Padovanino.

Book Madrid  Metropolis

Download or read book Madrid Metropolis written by and published by A. Asppan S.L.. This book was released on 2002-07 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through over 250 pages, this book offers us an approach of Madrid different from that offered in traditional touristic guides. The historical point of view of this book allows a better appreciacion of the urban evolution of Madrid. A formidable journey through a short history of the court and villa, the courtier Madrid, the abject Madrid, royal places, the Gran Via, the Madrid where we live today and from the highs of El Prado, to the door of Europe.

Book Spanish cinema 1973   2010

Download or read book Spanish cinema 1973 2010 written by Maria M. Delgado and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-04 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection offers a new lens through which to examine Spain’s cinema production following the isolation imposed by the Franco regime. The seventeen key films analysed in the volume span a period of 35 years that have been crucial in the development of Spain, Spanish democracy and Spanish cinema. They encompass different genres (horror, thriller, melodrama, social realism, documentary), both popular (Los abrazos rotos/Broken Embraces, Vicky Cristina Barcelona) and more select art house fare (En la ciudad de Sylvia/In the City of Sylvia, El espíritu de la colmena/Spirit of the Beehive) and are made in English (as both first and second language), Basque, Castilian, Catalan and French. Offering an expanded understanding of ‘national’ cinemas, the volume explores key works by Guillermo del Toro and Lucrecia Martel alongside an examination of the ways in which established auteurs (Almodóvar, José Garci, Carlos Saura) and younger generations of filmmakers (Cesc Gay, Amenábar, Bollaín) have harnessed cinematic language towards a commentary on the nation-state. The result is a bold new study of the ways in which film has created new prisms that have determined how Spain is positioned in the global marketplace.

Book Ciudades

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  • Author : Alfredo Ghierra
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 128 pages

Download or read book Ciudades written by Alfredo Ghierra and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Madrid y su comunidad

Download or read book Madrid y su comunidad written by Ramón Masats and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: