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Book Eustache Le Sueur and the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili

Download or read book Eustache Le Sueur and the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili written by Alan Salz and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book HYPNEROTOMACHIA POLIPHILI  AN ARCHITECTURAL VISION FROM THE FIRST RENAISSANCE

Download or read book HYPNEROTOMACHIA POLIPHILI AN ARCHITECTURAL VISION FROM THE FIRST RENAISSANCE written by Esteban Alejandro Cruz and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-05-08 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS BOOK IS ONLY THE 1ST HALF OF ONE SINGLE BOOK. IN ORDER TO HAVE A COMPLETE TEXT, READERS ARE SUGGESTED TO CONSIDER ALSO VOLUME II, AVAILABLE HERE http://bookstore.xlibris.com/Products/SKU-0114664017/default.aspx AFTER YEARS OF FIELD RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, THIS IS A SECOND BOOK OF WHAT SEEMS TO BECOME A SERIES OF PUBLICATIONS. THE INTENT IS TO RECONSTRUCT THE ARCHITECTURE AND LANDSCAPES DESCRIBED IN THE HYPNEROTOMACHIA POLIPHILI WITH THE AID OF DIGITAL MEDIUMS. THIS ENIGMATIC INCUNABULUM WITH ITS 172 WOODCUTS, FIRST PUBLISHED IN VENICE IN 1499 BY THE VENETIAN PRESS OF ALDUS MANUTIUS, HAS FASCINATED HISTORIANS, PATRONS, AND ESPECIALLY ARCHITECTS EVER SINCE ITS ANONYMOUS PUBLICATION. A RENEWED INTEREST FOR THIS LEGENDARY RENAISSANCE TEXT HAS EMERGED WITH MODERN TRANSLATIONS READILY NOW AVAILABLE IN ITALIAN, ENGLISH, AND SPANISH, NOT TO MENTION ITS USE AS THE CENTRAL THEME FOR CALDWELL AND THOMASON’S BESTSELLER, THE RULE OF FOUR, NOW TO BECOME A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE. THE STORY BEGINS WITH POLIPHILUS, WHO FALLS ASLEEP AND DREAMS THAT HE IS SEARCHING FOR HIS LOST LOVE, POLIA. WHILE UNDER HER BELOVED SPELL, HE ENGAGES ON AN EROTIC PILGRAMAGE THROUGH ANTIQUITY, DISCOVERING INCREDIBLE ARCHITECTURE, GARDENS AND LANDSCAPES ALL ENVISIONED AND DESCRIBED IN MINUTE, TECHNICAL, AND ARTISTIC DESCRIPTION. PART TREATISE, PART NARRATIVE, THIS BOOK INTRODUCES A VAST ARRAY OF ARCHITECTURAL EXAMPLES AND LANDSCAPE DESIGNS WHICH WERE TOO VISIONARY FOR ITS TIME. WITH MORE THAN 160 ORIGINAL ARTWORK ILLUSTRATIONS, THIS WORK IS PRESENTED HERE AS AN ATTEMPT TO SHARE A NEW DECIPHERING OF THIS LABYRINTHINE TEXT AFTER YEARS OF OBSCURITY, BRINGING TO LIFE AND GIVING SIGNIFICANCE TO ITS FANTASTIC ARCHITECTURE AND ALLEGORICAL VISIONS. FOR MORE INFORMATION: LOG ON TO WWW.HP1499.COM

Book France in the Golden Age

Download or read book France in the Golden Age written by Pierre Rosenberg and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1982 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Wrightsman Pictures

    Book Details:
  • 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 Chi seduci  Tamar

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gabriele Groschner
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1993
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 444 pages

Download or read book Chi seduci Tamar written by Gabriele Groschner and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book French Painting of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

Download or read book French Painting of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries written by Walter Friedlaender and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Museum of Fine Arts  Rouen

Download or read book The Museum of Fine Arts Rouen written by Rouen (France). Musée des beaux arts and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Baroque Masters from the J  Paul Getty Museum

Download or read book Baroque Masters from the J Paul Getty Museum written by California State University, Northridge. Fine Arts Gallery and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book French Painting in the XVI and Early XVII Centuries

Download or read book French Painting in the XVI and Early XVII Centuries written by Walter Friedlaender and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Brill s New Pauly

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  • Author : Manfred Landfester
  • Publisher : Brill's New Pauly
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 9789004142244
  • Pages : 720 pages

Download or read book Brill s New Pauly written by Manfred Landfester and published by Brill's New Pauly. This book was released on 2006 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is volume 4 of Brill's New Pauly, Classical Tradition, which consists of five volumes uniquely concerned with the long and influential aftermath of antiquity and the process of continuous reinterpretation and revaluation of the ancient heritage, including the history of classical scholarship.

Book French Paintings from the Chrysler Museum

Download or read book French Paintings from the Chrysler Museum written by Jefferson C. Harrison and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Painting of Simon Vouet

Download or read book The Painting of Simon Vouet written by William R. Crelly and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Art and Architecture in France  1500 1700

Download or read book Art and Architecture in France 1500 1700 written by Anthony Blunt and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in France were an epoch of spectacular artistic activity, exemplified by the chateaux of the Loire valley, the palace of Versailles, the paintings of Poussin and Claude, and the sculpture of Coysevox, which echo the political and cultural importance of France and the "Sun King." Anthony Blunt presents major artists and their principal works chronologically, provides an overview of the main projects of the period and of the artistic personalities behind them, and clearly sets the historical context. This new edition, of one of the classics of the Pelican History of Art series, has been revised and updated with color illustrations and a new bibliography.

Book Notable Acquisitions  1984 1985

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  • Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
  • Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Release : 1985
  • ISBN : 0870994387
  • Pages : 72 pages

Download or read book Notable Acquisitions 1984 1985 written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1985 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Art and Architecture in France  1500 to 1700

Download or read book Art and Architecture in France 1500 to 1700 written by Anthony Blunt and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 1953 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Le Classicisme Fran  ais

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sylvain Laveissière
  • Publisher : Gallery
  • Release : 1985
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 180 pages

Download or read book Le Classicisme Fran ais written by Sylvain Laveissière and published by Gallery. This book was released on 1985 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Dictionary of Art

Download or read book The Dictionary of Art written by Jane Turner and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: