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Book The Path of Humility

Download or read book The Path of Humility written by Anne H. Muraoka and published by Renaissance and Baroque. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Path of Humility: Caravaggio and Carlo Borromeo establishes a fundamental relationship between the Franciscan humility of Archbishop of Milan Carlo Borromeo and the Roman sacred works of Caravaggio. This is the first book to consider and focus entirely upon these two seemingly anomalous personalities of the Counter-Reformation. The import of Caravaggio's Lombard artistic heritage has long been seen as pivotal to the development of his sacred style, but it was not his only source of inspiration. This book seeks to enlarge the discourse surrounding Caravaggio's style by placing him firmly in the environment of Borromean Milan, a city whose urban fabric was transformed into a metaphorical Via Crucis. This book departs from the prevailing preoccupation - the artist's experience in Rome as fundamental to his formulation of sacred style - and toward his formative years in Borromeo's Milan, where humility reigned supreme. This book is intended for a broad, yet specialized readership interested in Counter-Reformation art and devotion. It serves as a critical text for undergraduate and graduate art history courses on Baroque art, Caravaggio, and Counter-Reformation art.

Book The Fabrication of Leonardo da Vinci   s Trattato della pittura  2 vols

Download or read book The Fabrication of Leonardo da Vinci s Trattato della pittura 2 vols written by Claire Farago and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 1371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first complete English translation, including over 250 full-color images, is a longitudinal cultural history of how art came to be institutionalized in the history of western representational practices.

Book Apolline Project Vol  1

Download or read book Apolline Project Vol 1 written by Girolamo De Simone and published by Girolamo F. De Simone. This book was released on 2009 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Baroque Venice

    Book Details:
  • Author : Massimo Favilla
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 9788896045060
  • Pages : 272 pages

Download or read book Baroque Venice written by Massimo Favilla and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This lavish book is the first ever art historical study to survey this specific and crucial period in the history of ‘La Serenissima’ – the Baroque. The 17th century saw Venice’s last big drive to respond on a cultural and artistic level to the Republic’s inexorable decline on the great stage of European politics. The city’s fabric still reflects the desire that was felt at the time for grandiloquent displays of hoped-for triumph. Excess and ostentation prevailed, fuelling a tendency for abundant ornamentation, a taste for the grotesque and the bizarre, and a zeal for enormity and greatness. Here, the authors trace the progression of painting, sculpture and architecture in 17th-century Venice in a series of scholarly essays illuminated by hundreds of glorious illustrations celebrating the city’s seminal examplars of Baroque style, among them Santa Maria della Salute, the mosaics of St Mark’s and the paintings of Giambattista Tiepolo."--Publisher's description.

Book The Sculptor Giovanni Bologna

Download or read book The Sculptor Giovanni Bologna written by James Holderbaum and published by Garland Publishing. This book was released on 1983 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Giordano Bruno and Renaissance Science

Download or read book Giordano Bruno and Renaissance Science written by Hilary Gatti and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Renaissance philosopher Giordano Bruno was a notable supporter of the new science that arose during his lifetime; his role in its development has been debated ever since the early seventeenth century. Hilary Gatti here reevaluates Bruno's contribution to the scientific revolution, in the process challenging the view that now dominates Bruno criticism among English-language scholars. This argument, associated with the work of Frances Yates, holds that early modern science was impregnated with and shaped by Hermetic and occult traditions, and has led scholars to view Bruno primarily as a magus. Gatti reinstates Bruno as a scientific thinker and occasional investigator of considerable significance and power whose work participates in the excitement aroused by the new science and its methods at the end of the sixteenth century. Her original research emphasizes the importance of Bruno's links to the magnetic philosophers, from Ficino to Gilbert; Bruno's reading and extension of Copernicus's work on the motions of the earth; the importance of Bruno's mathematics; and his work on the art of memory seen as a picture logic, which she examines in the light of the crises of visualization in present-day science. She concludes by emphasizing Bruno's ethics of scientific discovery.

Book Linnaeus in Italy

Download or read book Linnaeus in Italy written by Marco Beretta and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book White Magic  Black Magic in the European Renaissance

Download or read book White Magic Black Magic in the European Renaissance written by Paola Zambelli and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-07-30 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores philosophical theories which in the Renaissance provided an interpretation of nature, of its laws and exceptions and, lastly, of man’s capacity to dominate the cosmos by way of natural magic or by magical ceremonies. It does not concentrate on the Hermetic and Neoplatonic philosophers (Ficino, Pico, Della Porta), or on the relationship between magic and the scientific revolution, but rather upon the interference of the ideas and practices of learned magicians with popular rites and also with witchcraft, a most important question for social and religious history. New definitions of magic put forward by certain unorthodox and “wandering scholastics” (Trithemius, Agrippa, Paracelsus, Bruno) will interest readers of Renaissance and Reformation texts and history.

Book News in Early Modern Europe

Download or read book News in Early Modern Europe written by Simon Davies and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-07-07 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: News in Early Modern Europe presents new research on the nature, production, and dissemination of a variety of forms of news writing from across Europe during the early modern period.

Book Large Landscapes

Download or read book Large Landscapes written by Jean Cabanel and published by . This book was released on 2015-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Large landscapes use abstract patterns and natural materials to create a harmonious environment, and its these concepts that landscape designers harness to create an attractive vista. This impressive, richly illustrated book approaches the large-format landscaping theme by introducing its history across varied cultures, from the Romans to the present day, the methods used to rally the ecological landscape construction, the structure of the spaces, and current projects that showcase new design methodologies, implementation and management processes. Large Landscape talks to the evolution and current statements of large landscape planning projects across France, and speaks vividly, through informative descriptions and spectacular imagery, on the significant planning experiences of large-format landscape designers. Some of the interesting case studies herein include rural farming areas, terraced mountain regions, local parklands, lakes and beachfronts. This volume carries many dialogues across a wide range of projects and styles, including the reconnection between a coastal habitat and a city centre that reconciles urban infrastructure, such as railroad tracks and walkways, with the beach or river; the rehabilitation of a refuse dump into sustainable, rainwater garden vegetation and parkland; the creative economies of marrying forestry management of a 60-hectare park with animal husbandry, wood farming, accommodations, and employment; and the ecological refurbishment of a natural wetland and abandoned mining region.

Book Il Giambologna

    Book Details:
  • Author : Giambologna
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1905
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Il Giambologna written by Giambologna and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The library continues to add material to its files, including articles, biographies, bibliographies, photographs, reviews, small catalogs, invitations, and correspondence.

Book The Greatness And Decline Of Rome  Volume 2

Download or read book The Greatness And Decline Of Rome Volume 2 written by Guglielmo Ferrero and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this classic work of history, Guglielmo Ferrero provides an in-depth look at the rise and fall of the Roman Empire. Ferrero, along with co-authors Henry John Chaytor and Sir Alfred Eckhard Zimmern, explores the political, economic, and cultural factors that contributed to Rome's greatness--as well as the forces that ultimately brought it down. 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 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. 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 Geology Emerging

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  • Author : University of Illinois at Urbana-Champai
  • Publisher : Sagwan Press
  • Release : 2018-02-07
  • ISBN : 9781376998146
  • Pages : 592 pages

Download or read book Geology Emerging written by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champai and published by Sagwan Press. This book was released on 2018-02-07 with total page 592 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 Venice   Antiquity

    Book Details:
  • Author : Patricia Fortini Brown
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 1996-01-01
  • ISBN : 0300067003
  • Pages : 388 pages

Download or read book Venice Antiquity written by Patricia Fortini Brown and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inscriptions, medals, and travelers' accounts, on more learned humanist and antiquarian writings, and, most importantly, on the art of the period, Brown explores Venice's evolving sense of the past. She begins with the late middle ages, when Venice sought to invent a dignified civic past by means of object, image, and text. Moving on to the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, she discusses the collecting and recording of antiquities and the incorporation of Roman forms.

Book A Caravaggio Rediscovered  the Lute Player

Download or read book A Caravaggio Rediscovered the Lute Player written by Keith Christiansen and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1990 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10028. The catalog (with a lengthy essay and scholarly paraphernalia) for an exhibition of a newly identified work by Caravaggio and other paintings by the artist or related to the musical theme. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Book Officina Asia

    Book Details:
  • Author : Renato Barilli
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 212 pages

Download or read book Officina Asia written by Renato Barilli and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Music in the Seventeenth Century

Download or read book Music in the Seventeenth Century written by Lorenzo Bianconi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1987-11-26 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines musical life in the seventeenth century, a period of profound change in the history of music.