Download or read book Farnese written by Helge Gamrath and published by L'ERMA di BRETSCHNEIDER. This book was released on 2007 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Farnese Cup written by Valeria Sampaolo and published by . This book was released on 2019-01-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The largest carved hardstone cup to have survived from the ancient world has come down to us through the ages probably without ever becoming an archaeological find: its peregrinations took it from Alexandria to Rome and thence to Constantinople, before it returned to Rome in the fifteenth century, where it was bought by the sharp-eyed connoisseur Lorenzo de? Medici. It then joined the Farnese Collection, from where it reached the National Archaeological Museum of Naples.0The intriguing story of the cup?s vicissitudes as it passed from one glittering court to another is matched by the still not wholly resolved interpretation of the scene depicted on its inner face, which has been the subject of a number of different readings and continues to be a matter of debate. The work is a tour de force of the carver?s art, with the figures in the inner scene and the terrifying face of the Gorgon on the outside picked out with unerring skill, exploiting every shade of the sardonyx agate of which it is made.

Download or read book Farnese book of hours written by Catholic Church and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Medusa s Gaze written by Marina Belozerskaya and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-04 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tazza Farnese is one of the most admired objects from classical antiquity. A libation bowl carved from banded agate, it features Medusa's head on its outside and, inside, an assembly of Egyptian gods. For more than two millennia, these radiant figures have mesmerized emperors and artists, popes and thieves, merchants and museum goers. In this, the first book-length account of this renowned masterpiece, Marina Belozerskaya traces its fascinating journey through history. That it has survived at all is a miracle. The Tazza's origins date back to Ptolemaic Egypt where it likely enhanced the power and prestige of Cleopatra. After her defeat by Emperor Augustus, the bowl began an amazing itinerary along many flashpoints in world history. It likely traveled from Rome to Constantinople. After that city's sack by crusaders in 1204, it returned west to inspire the classical revival at the court of Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II at Palermo. The Tazza next graced Tamerlane's court at Samarqand, before becoming an obsession of Renaissance popes and princes. It witnessed the rediscovery of Pompeii and Herculaneum, the turbulent aftermath of the French Revolution, and the birth of the modern Italian state. Throughout its journey, the Tazza aroused the lust of Greek, Roman, Byzantine, and Mongol rulers, consoled a heart-broken duchess, inspired artists including Botticelli and Raphael, tempted spies and thieves, and drew the ire of a deranged museum guard who nearly destroyed it. More than a biography of the world's most cherished bowl, Medusa's Gaze is a vivid and delightful voyage through history.

Download or read book Elisabeth Farnese written by Edward Armstrong and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The House of Farnese written by Giovanna Solari and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Vita di Pier Luigi Farnese primo duca di Parma Piacenta e Guastalla written by Ireneo Affo and published by . This book was released on 1821 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Wanderer in the Spirit Lands written by A. Farnese and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Descrizione storico critico mitologica delle celebri pitture esistenti nei reali palazzi Farnese e Farnesina in Roma etc written by Michele Angelo PRUNETTI and published by . This book was released on 1816 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Farnese Hours written by Giulio Clovio and published by New York : G. Braziller. This book was released on 1976 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Annibale Carracci the Farnese Gallery Rome written by Charles Dempsey and published by George Braziller. This book was released on 1995 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The magnificent frescoes in chapels, town halls, and palaces across Italy together represent one of the greatest achievements of Renaissance art. Commissioned both by private patrons and by the Church, artists such as Giotto, Masaccio, Piero della Francesca, Mantegna, and Annibale Carracci responded with images of matchless beauty. Leading scholars of Renaissance art and culture treat the works selected for this series in their artistic and historical contexts; each cycle is illustrated with a complete set of the highest quality color reproductions.

Download or read book One Day in the Naples Museum written by Domenico Monaco and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Il Gran Cardinale written by Clare Robertson and published by . This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During much of the sixteenth century, Rome was the artistic centre of the known world, and Cardinal Alessandro Farnese, the wealthy and powerful grandson of Pope Paul III, was the city's most important individual patron of the visual arts. For over fifty years Farnese commissioned buildings and paintings of the highest quality from the major artists active in the city. Using a wealth of hitherto unpublished material, Clare Robertson provides the first thorough reconstruction of Farnese's development and influence as a patron, at the same time, raising important questions about the attitudes and motives of Renaissance patrons and challenging a number of current art-historical assumptions about patronage. She shows how Farnese began his patronage with costly works of decorative art and thus embarked on an extensive campaign of secular commissions from artists such as Titian, Vasari, and Taddeo Zuccaro. His secular patronage culminated with his magnificent villa at Caprarola, designed by Vignola. Only in the 1560s, after some thirty years as a Cardinal, did he turn to commissions for religious works, mainly in response to Counter Reformation pressures and because of his fervent desire to become Pope. The emphasis of his patronage then changed dramatically as he embarked on building an impressive number of new churches, including the Gesu, the most influential church of the late sixteenth century. This handsomely illustrated study of a major artistic figure will be indispensable to students and scholars of sixteenth-century Italy and its art.

Download or read book Farnese written by Farnese de Andrade and published by Editora Cosac Naify. This book was released on 2005 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exhibition of object art of De Andrade (b. Brazil). It is the most comprehensive exhibition to date of draftsman, engraver and painter. The show captures the unique work of an artist who consistently won awards during the period extending from 1962-1970, only to be practically forgotten throughout the last two decades of his life. Cloistered in his own solitude, he principally expressed the impact of his own fears, pain, sadness, resentments, complexes, losses, depressions, repressions, panic states, relationships, fetishes, libido, etc. The apex of the artist's work and the high point of the exhibition are the forgotten conceptual artistic and aesthetic weath of the assemblages that impregnate the Farnesean universe in which procreation was considered a crime.

Download or read book A Complete Handbook to the Museum According to the New Arrangement written by Museo nazionale di Napoli and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Collection of the Most Remarkable Monuments of the National Museum of Naples written by Raphael Gargiulo and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The House of Farnese written by Giovanna Solari and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Farnese family was an influential family in Renaissance Italy. Its most important members included Pope Paul III and Cardinal Alessandro Farnese, and the titles of Duke of Parma and Piacenza and of Castro were held by various members of the family. A number of important architectural works and antiquities are associated with the Farnese family, either through construction or acquisition. Buildings include the Palazzo Farnese in Rome and the Villa Farnese at Caprarola, and ancient artifacts include the Farnese Marbles."--Wikipedia.