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Book Medieval Art from Private Collections

Download or read book Medieval Art from Private Collections written by The Cloisters and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1968 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Tendencies of Gothic in Florence

Download or read book Tendencies of Gothic in Florence written by Gaudenz Freuler and published by Giunti Editore. This book was released on 1997 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A companion volume to Andrea Bonaiuti, this text offers detailed information on the work of Don Silvestro dei Gherarducci, a celebrated Italian book illustrator of the late-14th century, and the impact of his gothicizing tendencies on the Giottesque tradition.

Book The Antonio II Badile Album of Drawings  The Origins of Collecting Drawings in Early Modern Northern Italy

Download or read book The Antonio II Badile Album of Drawings The Origins of Collecting Drawings in Early Modern Northern Italy written by Evelyn Karet and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evelyn Karet's in-depth study of the Antonio II Badile Album - the earliest known example of an art collection pasted onto the pages of a book - is both focused and broad in its appeal to those interested in the early modern era. The provenance of the album is traced from its assemblage to the seventeenth-century collection of Conte Lodovico Moscardo to its dismantling by the dealer Francis Matthiesen in the 1950s, establishing that the volume conserved in the Frits Lugt Collection is not an original but a replica produced by Matthiesen. Although Antonio II must be celebrated as the collector of the drawings, new paleographic analysis has identified the actual compiler of the album after Antonio?s death providing a terminus post quem in the late 1530s or early 1540s. Karet enlarges the focus from the album itself to the historic tradition of collecting drawings in northern Italy in the early modern era before Vasari, for which the album provides a new point of reference. Throughout the book, Karet discusses the Badile family, examines the individual drawings in the book, investigates the contacts between artists and humanists, their rich, diverse collections and the humanist mind-set that fostered the appreciation of drawings. She explores notable early drawing collections in northern Italy and the role of northern Italy as a center of collection in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The book concludes with two appendices: a reconstruction of the original album, including a discussion of the reconstruction process, suggestions about what the album originally looked like, and a page-by-page guide to its contents; and a detailed analysis of Francis Matthiesen's career. This book opens up new areas of inquiry into an overlooked subject.

Book The Secular Spirit

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1975
  • ISBN : 0870990969
  • Pages : 290 pages

Download or read book The Secular Spirit written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Absent Image

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  • Author : Elina Gertsman
  • Publisher : Penn State Press
  • Release : 2021-06-24
  • ISBN : 0271089032
  • Pages : 257 pages

Download or read book The Absent Image written by Elina Gertsman and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2021-06-24 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2022 Charles Rufus Morey Award from the College Art Association Guided by Aristotelian theories, medieval philosophers believed that nature abhors a vacuum. Medieval art, according to modern scholars, abhors the same. The notion of horror vacui—the fear of empty space—is thus often construed as a definitive feature of Gothic material culture. In The Absent Image, Elina Gertsman argues that Gothic art, in its attempts to grapple with the unrepresentability of the invisible, actively engages emptiness, voids, gaps, holes, and erasures. Exploring complex conversations among medieval philosophy, physics, mathematics, piety, and image-making, Gertsman considers the concept of nothingness in concert with the imaginary, revealing profoundly inventive approaches to emptiness in late medieval visual culture, from ingenious images of the world’s creation ex nihilo to figurations of absence as a replacement for the invisible forces of conception and death. Innovative and challenging, this book will find its primary audience with students and scholars of art, religion, physics, philosophy, and mathematics. It will be particularly welcomed by those interested in phenomenological and cross-disciplinary approaches to the visual culture of the later Middle Ages.

Book To Inspire and Instruct

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  • Author : Christina Nielsen
  • Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • Release : 2021-02-03
  • ISBN : 1527565572
  • Pages : 260 pages

Download or read book To Inspire and Instruct written by Christina Nielsen and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2021-02-03 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays, which derive from a symposium held at the Art Institute of Chicago in 2005, tells the story of how medieval art was collected by both individuals and institutions in the American Midwest. This book will appeal to both medievalists and scholars of nineteenth- and twentieth century American history. In addition, it will also appeal to scholars who are interested in museum studies and the history of collecting. The essays in the first section, “Collecting and Displaying Medieval Art,” consider the formation of medieval art collections at influential cultural institutions in three of the most important centers of industry and culture in the Midwest: Chicago, Detroit and Cleveland. The second section, “Medieval Art as Inspiration and Education,” examines the motives of both private donors and museum professionals in forming collections and establishing period rooms and cloistered spaces at museums in Toledo, Kansas City, and St. Louis, among others. At the opposite end of the spectrum was a new trend in curatorial practice, beginning in the 1930s, that favored the dismantling of period rooms and espoused displaying historical works of art in more distinctly modern settings, a theme that pervades section three, “Medieval Art and Modernism.” An essay on medieval art in Midwestern university art museums and another one that considers the impact of works from medieval collections in special exhibitions serve as a remarkable coda to the rest of the volume. Two appendices follow this, one that provides an overview of medieval art collections in Midwestern university museums and another which provides a biographical sketch of prominent dealers of medieval art from 1900-1950.

Book Drawings in Midwestern Collections

Download or read book Drawings in Midwestern Collections written by Burton Lewis Dunbar and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Old master drawings kept in storage, their access limited to a few, will now be made widely accessible in this new series which will eventually include all drawings in some 70 midwestern collections. The first volume introduces a corpus of the rarest of European drawings through the year 1500, a time when artists had just begun to value drawings as works of art. It presents 30 entries written by 12 scholars, each a specialist in the art of the period, and each with immediate access to the artwork itself. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Book Art And Architecture In Medieval France

Download or read book Art And Architecture In Medieval France written by Whitney S. Stoddard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-20 with total page 932 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an English-language study on the architecture and art of medieval France of the Romanesque and Gothic periods between 1000-1500. In addition to essays on individual monuments there are general discussions of given periods and specific problems such as: why did Gothic come into being? Whitney Stoddard explores the interrelationship between all forms of medieval ecclesiastical art and characterization of the Gothic cathedral, which he believes to have an almost metaphysical basis.

Book Medieval Art

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  • Author : James Snyder
  • Publisher : Prentice Hall
  • Release : 1989
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 520 pages

Download or read book Medieval Art written by James Snyder and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1989 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Text and the accompanying illustrations offer an overview of Medieval art and life.

Book The Cornell Library Journal

Download or read book The Cornell Library Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Connoisseur

Download or read book The Connoisseur written by and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Medieval Art

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  • Author : Marilyn Stokstad
  • Publisher : Westview Press
  • Release : 1986-06-16
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 492 pages

Download or read book Medieval Art written by Marilyn Stokstad and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 1986-06-16 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This survey of over a thousand years of Western art and architecture, from ancient Rome to the age of exploration, introduces the reader to a period of extraordinary historical and geographical extent. The monumental arts of architecture and sculpture and the diverse minor arts of the Middle Ages are presented here within social, religious, political, and intellectual framework of lands as varied as France and Denmark, Spain and Germany. Medieval Art covers all the major monuments, describing each important work clearly and in detail. Marilyn Stokstad's descriptions are sensitive and articulate, giving the reader a sense of the beauty of the work. They also teach the reader how to look at medieval art—which aspects of architecture, sculpture, or painting are important and for what reasons. Stylistic and iconographic issues and themes are dealt with clearly, and the author presents medieval art in an aesthetic and social context so that it can be fully understood and appreciated. The book consists of twelve chapters and covers the period from the second to the fifteenth centuries.

Book Painting in Florence and Siena

Download or read book Painting in Florence and Siena written by Wildenstein & Co. (London, England) and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalog of Museum Publications   Media

Download or read book Catalog of Museum Publications Media written by Paul Wasserman and published by Detroit : Gale Research Company. This book was released on 1980 with total page 1072 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Museum Media

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  • Author : Paul Wasserman
  • Publisher : Detroit : Gale Research Company
  • Release : 1973
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 482 pages

Download or read book Museum Media written by Paul Wasserman and published by Detroit : Gale Research Company. This book was released on 1973 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Inventory of Music Iconography

Download or read book Inventory of Music Iconography written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: