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Book The Renaissance Nude

    Book Details:
  • Author : Thomas Kren
  • Publisher : Getty Publications
  • Release : 2018-11-20
  • ISBN : 160606584X
  • Pages : 436 pages

Download or read book The Renaissance Nude written by Thomas Kren and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2018-11-20 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gloriously illustrated examination of the origins and development of the nude as an artistic subject in Renaissance Europe Reflecting an era when Europe looked to both the classical past and a global future, this volume explores the emergence and acceptance of the nude as an artistic subject. It engages with the numerous and complex connotations of the human body in more than 250 artworks by the greatest masters of the Renaissance. Paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, illuminated manuscripts, and book illustrations reveal private, sometimes shocking, preoccupations as well as surprising public beliefs—the Age of Humanism from an entirely new perspective. This book presents works by Albrecht Dürer, Lucas Cranach, and Martin Schongauer in the north and Donatello, Raphael, and Giorgione in the south; it also introduces names that deserve to be known better. A publication this rich in scholarship could only be produced by a variety of expert scholars; the sixteen contributors are preeminent in their fields and wide-ranging in their knowledge and curiosity. The structure of the volume—essays alternating with shorter texts on individual artworks—permits studies both broad and granular. From the religious to the magical and the poetic to the erotic, encompassing male and female, infancy, youth, and old age, The Renaissance Nude examines in a profound way what it is to be human.

Book Dictionary of Erotic Artists

Download or read book Dictionary of Erotic Artists written by Eugene C. Burt and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2010-05-24 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This alphabetically arranged dictionary of artists known to have produced works depicting sexual imagery profiles the artists from ancient times to the present. Each entry offers biographical information, including the artist's name and any variants, birth and death dates, geographic focus, a description of the artist's media, training and the nature of their artistic output"--Provided by publisher.

Book The Temple of Gnidus

    Book Details:
  • Author : Charles de Secondat Montesquieu
  • Publisher : Gale Ecco, Print Editions
  • Release : 2018-04-25
  • ISBN : 9781385750537
  • Pages : 158 pages

Download or read book The Temple of Gnidus written by Charles de Secondat Montesquieu and published by Gale Ecco, Print Editions. This book was released on 2018-04-25 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ Bodleian Library (Oxford) T177494 Anonymous. By Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu. Parallel French and English titlepages and text, the French title being 'Le temple de Gnide'. With a final advertisement leaf. Dublin: printed by S. Powell, 1750. 155, [3]p.; 12°

Book Taking Positions

    Book Details:
  • Author : Bette Talvacchia
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN : 9780691086835
  • Pages : 328 pages

Download or read book Taking Positions written by Bette Talvacchia and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The book is generously illustrated and includes full translations of the infamous sonnets that Pietro Aretino wrote to accompany I modi. Exploring such issues as censorship, religious teachings about sex, and the influence of antique culture, Taking Positions is a major contribution to our understanding of the erotic in Renaissance culture."--BOOK JACKET.

Book Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Download or read book Pieter Bruegel the Elder written by Pieter Bruegel and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2001 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1525/30-1569) was a remarkable draftsman and designer of prints as well as a great painter. His independent drawings and designs for engravings and etchings, which were carried out by the leading printmakers of his day, have fascinated scholars and the general public alike since they were created. They have recently been the subject of research that has given rise to a reevaluation of the parameters of Bruegel's oeuvre. The new scholarship has been brought to bear in the texts of the present volume, which accompanies a major exhibition of 140 of Bruegel's prints and drawings to be shown at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, from May to August 2001 and at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from September to December 2001. An international group of experts discusses the new Bruegel who has emerged from recent studies, in essays on the artist's life, his contributions as a draftsman and as a printmaker, the survival of his art, and his relationship to the humanism of his day. They also illuminate his genius in entries on all the works in the exhibition. Every work is illustrated and rich comparative illustrations are included. Provenances an

Book The Survival of the Pagan Gods

Download or read book The Survival of the Pagan Gods written by Jean Seznec and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Les amours des dieux d apr  s Titien  Annibal Carrache et Jules Romain

Download or read book Les amours des dieux d apr s Titien Annibal Carrache et Jules Romain written by Jean Duchesne and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Sack of Rome  1527

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  • Author : André Chastel
  • Publisher : Bollingen Foundation
  • Release : 1983
  • ISBN : 9780691099477
  • Pages : 321 pages

Download or read book The Sack of Rome 1527 written by André Chastel and published by Bollingen Foundation. This book was released on 1983 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This richly illustrated study of the sack as a cultural and artistic phenomenon reveals the ambiguities of preceding events and the traumatic contrast between the flourishing world of art under Clement VII and the city as it existed after the troops of Emperor Charles V had looted Rome in 1527.

Book The Aphrodite of Knidos and Her Successors

Download or read book The Aphrodite of Knidos and Her Successors written by Christine Mitchell Havelock and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revealing survey of Aphrodite

Book Philosophy of Religion in the Renaissance

Download or read book Philosophy of Religion in the Renaissance written by Mr Paul Richard Blum and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-06-28 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Philosophy of Religion is one result of the Early Modern Reformation movements, as competing theologies purported truth claims which were equal in strength and different in contents. Renaissance thought, from Humanism through philosophy of nature, contributed to the origin of the modern concepts of God. This book explores the continuity of philosophy of religion from late medieval thinkers through humanists to late Renaissance philosophers, explaining the growth of the tensions between the philosophical and theological views. Covering the work of Renaissance authors, including Lull, Salutati, Raimundus Sabundus, Plethon, Cusanus, Valla, Ficino, Pico, Bruno, Suárez, and Campanella, this book offers an important understanding of the current philosophy/religion and faith/reason debates and fills the gap between medieval and early modern philosophy and theology.

Book Bibliographical and Other Studies on the  Pervigilium Veneris

Download or read book Bibliographical and Other Studies on the Pervigilium Veneris written by Cecil Clementi and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A History of Renaissance Rhetoric 1380 1620

Download or read book A History of Renaissance Rhetoric 1380 1620 written by Peter Mack and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-07-14 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the most important individual contributions to the development of Renaissance rhetoric and analyzes the new ideas which Renaissance thinkers contributed to rhetorical theory.

Book Balkan Epic

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  • Author : Marina Abramovic
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 9788876246784
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Balkan Epic written by Marina Abramovic and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description

Book Venus Sovietica

Download or read book Venus Sovietica written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book P  Ovidii Nasonis Metamorphoseon Libri XV

Download or read book P Ovidii Nasonis Metamorphoseon Libri XV written by Ovid Giovanni Andrea Dell' Anguillara and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 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 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 Les amours des dieux

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  • Author : Simon-Célestin Croze-Magnan
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2014-10-29
  • ISBN : 9782130628217
  • Pages : 193 pages

Download or read book Les amours des dieux written by Simon-Célestin Croze-Magnan and published by . This book was released on 2014-10-29 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: S'appuyant sur une longue tradition iconographique et sur des mythes ou des poèmes à la gloire de l'amour physique, les deux auteurs - écrivain et graveur - illustrent dans toute leur variété les postures du couple enlacé. Conjuguant la puissance érotique des images et celle des mots, ils proposent au public libertin un livre qui, sous l'apparence d'un traité d'éducation sexuelle, multiplie les plaisirs : jouissance du voyeur, admiration de corps beaux et sensuels, séductions de la poésie. Le livre reproduit ici en fac-similé date de la fin du XVIIIe siècle ; il se répartit en vingt chapitres, dont chacun, par un texte succinct et une estampe en pleine page, présente une posture, illustrée par un couple de divinités mythologiques ou de personnages légendaires bien musclés. Les estampes déploient en vingt variations la grande diversité de la gymnastique sexuelle et montrent, sans rien voiler, des couples qui s'embrassent dans un beau décor - un paysage ou, parfois, un intérieur. L'introduction de Jan Blanc, historien de l'art, situe les textes et les illustrations dans la tradition de la littérature et de l'iconographie érotiques. Elle analyse, par un biais historique, esthétique et littéraire, la puissance performative des images, le sens qu'elles donnent à l'accouplement - un hymne à la vitalité de la nature - et les différents modes de plaisir qu'elles suscitent.