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Book The Este Monuments and Urban Development in Renaissance Ferrara

Download or read book The Este Monuments and Urban Development in Renaissance Ferrara written by Charles M. Rosenberg and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the urban development in Ferrara from its origins through the Renaissance.

Book The Scholar in His Study

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  • Author : Curator of Renaissance Collections Department of Medieval and Modern Europe Dora Thornton
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 1998-01-01
  • ISBN : 0300073895
  • Pages : 240 pages

Download or read book The Scholar in His Study written by Curator of Renaissance Collections Department of Medieval and Modern Europe Dora Thornton and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Italy, many leading citizens constructed and furnished distinctive studies for themselves. The study was an individually designed room for private and social use - as an office, library, a family archive or treasury, as the nucleus of an art collection, or as a space for contemplation. This book is an account of the Renaissance Italian study and its contents. Illustrated with depictions of studies and the precious and unusual objects they contained, the book examines the significance of the study to its owner and visitors, its structure and location, and the prized possessions that might fill such a special room.

Book Power and Imagination

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  • Author : Lauro Martines
  • Publisher : Taylor & Francis
  • Release : 1988-06-22
  • ISBN : 9780801836435
  • Pages : 406 pages

Download or read book Power and Imagination written by Lauro Martines and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1988-06-22 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Power and Imagination, a noted historian rethinks the evolution of the city-state in Renaissance Italy and recasts the conventional distinction between "society" and "culture." Martines traces the growth of commerce and the evolution of governments; he describes the attitudes, pleasures, and rituals of the ruling elite; and he seeks to understand the period's towering works of the imagination in literature, painting, city planning, and philosophy-not simply as the creations of individual artists, but as the forman expression of the ambitions and egos of those in power.

Book Debating Women  Politics  and Power in Early Modern Europe

Download or read book Debating Women Politics and Power in Early Modern Europe written by Sharon L. Jansen and published by Palgrave MacMillan. This book was released on 2008-03-15 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sixteenth century was an age of politically powerful women. Queens, acting in their own right, and female regents, acting on behalf of their male relatives, governed much of Western Europe. Yet even as women ruled—and ruled effectively—their right to do so was hotly contested. Men’s voices have long dominated this debate, but the recovery of texts by women now allows their voices, long silenced, to be heard once again. Debating Women, Politics, and Power in Early Modern Europe is a study of texts and textual production in the construction of gender, society, and politics in the early modern period. Jansen explores the “gynecocracy” debate and the larger humanist response to the challenge posed by female sovereignty.

Book The Court Cities of Northern Italy

Download or read book The Court Cities of Northern Italy written by Charles M. Rosenberg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-21 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Court Cities of Northern Italy examines painting, sculpture, decorative arts, and architecture produced within the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries.

Book Herculean Ferrara

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  • Author : Thomas Tuohy
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2002-08-08
  • ISBN : 9780521522632
  • Pages : 576 pages

Download or read book Herculean Ferrara written by Thomas Tuohy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-08-08 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated account of the life and work of a leading patron of the Italian Renaissance.

Book Cosm   Tura of Ferrara

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  • Author : Stephen John Campbell
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 1997-01-01
  • ISBN : 0300072198
  • Pages : 230 pages

Download or read book Cosm Tura of Ferrara written by Stephen John Campbell and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amajor study of Cosm� Tura (c.1430-1495) who came to prominence as painter to the Este court. As well as close examination of his paintings, Tura's life and works are used as a starting point for the investigation of the 15th cent artist's role and status at court, and urban culture.

Book Ferrara

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  • Author : Werner L. Gundersheimer
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1973
  • ISBN : 9780691052106
  • Pages : 313 pages

Download or read book Ferrara written by Werner L. Gundersheimer and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Description for this book, Ferrara: Style in Renaissance Despotism, will be forthcoming.

Book The Monstrous Regiment of Women

Download or read book The Monstrous Regiment of Women written by S. Jansen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2002-10-17 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Monstrous Regiment of Women , Sharon Jansen explores the case for and against female rule by examining the arguments made by theorists from Sir John Fortescue (1461) through Bishop Bossuet (1680) interweaving their arguments with references to the most well-known early modern queens. The 'story' of early modern European political history looks very different if, instead of focusing on kings and their sons, we see successive generations of powerful women and the shifting political alliances of the period from a very different, and revealing, perspective.

Book Captivi

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  • Author : Titus Maccius Plautus
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1880
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 190 pages

Download or read book Captivi written by Titus Maccius Plautus and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Music in Renaissance Ferrara 1400 1505

Download or read book Music in Renaissance Ferrara 1400 1505 written by Lewis Lockwood and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-05-04 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on extensive documentary and archival research, Music in Renaissance Ferrara is a documentary history of music for one of the most important city-states of the Italian Renaissance. Lockwood shows how patrons and musicians created a musical center over the course of the fifteenth-century, tracing the growth of music and musical life in rich detail. It also sheds new light on the careers of such important composers as Dufay, Martini, Obrecht, and Josquin Desprez. This paperback edition features a new preface that re-introduces the book and reflects on its contribution to our modern knowledge of music in the culture of the Italian Renaissance.

Book La Moschetta

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  • Author : Ruzzante
  • Publisher : Editorial Edinumen
  • Release : 1993
  • ISBN : 9781895537222
  • Pages : 132 pages

Download or read book La Moschetta written by Ruzzante and published by Editorial Edinumen. This book was released on 1993 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Painting at Court

Download or read book Painting at Court written by Michael Levey and published by [New York] : New York University Press. This book was released on 1971 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Concentrating on six very varied European courts, the book deals with the very various types of paintings fostered by rulers between the fourteenth and nineteenth centuries ... and the rise in status of the artist at court ... More than 200 illustrations, seven in colour"--Cover.

Book Epidicus

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  • Author : Titus Maccius Plautus
  • Publisher : Palala Press
  • Release : 2018-02-21
  • ISBN : 9781378354766
  • Pages : 58 pages

Download or read book Epidicus written by Titus Maccius Plautus and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2018-02-21 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book Festival Architecture

Download or read book Festival Architecture written by Sarah Bonnemaison and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-12-06 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With contributions from provocative art and architectural historians, this book is a unique exposition of the temporary architecture erected for festivals and the role it has played in developing Western architectural and urban theory. Festival Architecture is arranged in historical periods – from Antiquity to the modern era – and divided between analyses of specific festivals, set in relation to contemporary architecture and urban design ideas and theories. Illustrated with a wealth of unusual and rarely-seen images from the European festival tradition, this is a fascinating outline of the history of festival architecture ideal for postgraduate architecture and urban design students.

Book The Condottieri

Download or read book The Condottieri written by Geoffrey Trease and published by New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston. This book was released on 1971 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Europa Triumphans

    Book Details:
  • Author : Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly
  • Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
  • Release : 2010-02
  • ISBN : 0754696383
  • Pages : 1129 pages

Download or read book Europa Triumphans written by Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2010-02 with total page 1129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A landmark in the study of early modern Europe, this two-volume collection makes available for the first time a selection of the most important texts from court and civic festival books. Festival entertainments were presented to mark such occasions as royal and ducal entries to capital cities, dynastic marriages, the birth and christening of heirs, religious feasts and royal and ducal funerals. Europa Triumphans represents the chronological and trans-European range of the court and civic festival. These festivals are considered not simply as texts, but as events, and are introduced by groups of scholars, each with a specialist knowledge of the political, social and cultural significance of the festival and of the iconography, spectacle, music, dance, voice and gesture in which they were expressed. To demonstrate the geographic spread and political significance of festivals, and to illustrate the range of aesthetic languages they deploy, the festivals included in these two volumes are grouped in the following sections: Henri III; Genoa; Poland-Lithuania; The Netherlands; The Protestant Union; La Rochelle; Scandinavia; and The New World. These texts provide many valuable insights into the variety of political systems and historical circumstances that formed them. Beautifully produced with 148 black-and-white and 23 colour illustrations, Europa Triumphans represents an invaluable reference source for the study of early modern Europe. It presents texts both in transcription and translated into English, and is supplemented with introductory essays and commentaries. Europa Triumphans is co-published by Ashgate and the Modern Humanities Research Association, in conjunction with the AHRB Centre for the Study of the Renaissance at the University of Warwick, UK.