Download or read book Les premi res gravures italiennes written by Biblioth Eque Nationale de France and published by Bibliothèque Nationale de France - BNF. This book was released on 1999 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: L'inventaire des premières gravures italiennes regroupe plus de huit cents estampes exécutées au quattrocento et au début du cinquecento, toutes reproduites, à l'exception des doubles. Ce fonds exceptionnel – l'un des plus considérables avec ceux du British Museum et de l'Albertina – compte un grand nombre d'œuvres uniques ou rarissimes parmi lesquelles la plus ancienne gravure italienne connue, une épreuve de nielle (plaque d'orfèvrerie), datée de 1452. C'est sous cette forme que l'estampe apparaît en Italie, dans les ateliers d'orfèvres de Florence. Elle connaît une évolution rapide dans les cités artistiques : Florence, Ferrare, Mantoue, Milan, Venise, Vicence, Bologne, Rome. Technique de reproduction et de multiplication de l'image, ce nouveau média utilisé par des orfèvres, des miniaturistes, des peintres, des artisans, parfois de grands maîtres, tels Pollaiuolo et Mantegna, devient un moyen d'expression artistique autonome. Imprégnés de l'idéal esthétique de la Renaissance, les graveurs affirment leur créativité par les valeurs subtiles du noir et du blanc, la recherche de la beauté formelle, l'expressivité de la ligne, le jeu de l'ombre et de la lumière, le sens de l'espace dans la feuille. Leur production facilite la diffusion du langage visuel de la Renaissance et de l'iconographie, de la culture humaniste. Les thèmes profanes se multiplient. Les mythes classiques servent souvent des allégories moralisatrices philosophiques. Les figures fascinantes inspirées de l'antique (satyres, tritons et néréides, centaures, monstres marins), les grotesques et les statues romaines récemment découvertes, animent un univers surnaturel et fantastique, proche de notre sensibilité. Cet inventaire comporte une introduction illustrée – synthèse historique et artistique des débuts de l'estampe en Italie – suivie par l'historique détaillé du fonds du Cabinet des estampes. Les œuvres sont classées par école ou par graveur, chaque ensemble étant précédé d'un texte de présentation et d'une biographie de l'artiste, permettant au lecteur de les situer dans leur contexte. Les notices détaillées signalent l'historique des gravures et mentionnent les filigranes existants, tous reproduits, la plupart par bêtagraphie. On trouvera, à la fin, trois index (artistes, provenances et sujets).
Download or read book Excavating the Medieval Image written by David S. Areford and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medieval images, especially manuscript illuminations, have long been treated independently of the contexts in which they were created. These beautiful miniature paintings, frequently valued as keepers of documentary evidence or as curious artistic commodities, have only recently become the focus of art historians concerned with new questions related to artistic working methods, audience and the status of the visual in the Middle Ages and the modern era. Excavating the Medieval Image argues that the illuminated image is best understood as thoroughly integrated in the material context of the manuscript - and thus, integrated in a cultural context of production and reception. Seen in this way, the illuminated manuscript becomes a kind of archaeological site, which must be carefully unearthed layer by layer. The fourteen essays gathered here are written by scholars of both medieval and Renaissance art history, and demonstrate varied methodological approaches that combine the pursuits of traditional connoisseurship and iconography with those of critical theory and historiography. In addition, the authors contribute more broadly to important interdisciplinary issues such as the study of gender, text and image, and the history of literacy and the book.
Download or read book Giovanni Bellini written by Oskar Bätschmann and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Giovanni Bellini, renowned art historian Oskar Batschmann charts the fraught trajectory of Bellini's career, highlighting the crucial works that established his far-reaching influence in the Renaissance.
Download or read book Piero Di Cosimo written by Dennis Geronimus and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inverting rules with obvious relish, Florentine artist Piero di Cosimo (1462–1522) is known today—as he was in his own time—for his highly personal visual language, one capable of generating images of the most mesmerizing oddity. In this book, Dennis Geronimus overcomes the scarcity of information about the artist’s life and works—only one of the nearly sixty known works by Piero is actually signed and dated—and pieces together from extensive archival research the most complete and accurate account of Piero’s life and career ever written. Unfettered imagination was the sign under which Piero exercised his pictorial invention, and yet the complicated artist was also a product of his culture. The book fills gaps in the artist’s biography and provides intensive analysis of Piero’s protean imagery, discusses his various patrons and commissions, and lists his extant, lost, and uncertainly attributed works.
Download or read book Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle written by and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 1462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Knots Or the Violence of Desire in Renaissance Florence written by Emanuele Lugli and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2023-03-20 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""This book is about hair," writes Emanuele Lugli in the first sentence of this innovative cultural history of hair as seen through the lens of Lorenzo il Magnifico's Florence. Lugli reflects on the ways writers and artists naturalized religious prejudices, circumscribed social practices, and propagated gender and class subjugation through alluring works of art, in medical and political writings, and in poetry. What, he asks, may've compelled Sandro Botticelli, for example, or the young Leonardo da Vinci and dozens of their contemporaries to obsess about hair? Why take such care in depicting the braids, knots, and textures in their portraits of women specifically? Lugli dives deeply into the cultural production of notions about hair in this period of Florentine history, the way artists, poets, natural philosophers, doctors, politicians, and theologians thought about it, and how they depicted it in their art and writings. From this varied archive, Lugli gathers rewarding insights from practices and beliefs across the disciplines and genres at a crucial time when Renaissance humanists were attempting to define what it meant to live-and be-human. Lugli recuperates overlooked perceptions of hair at the very moment when hair came to be identified as a potential vector for liberating culture, and he corrects a centuries-old prejudice that sees hair as a trivial subject, as a mere female occupation kept on the margins of relevance, relegated to passing fashion or the decorative. As Lugli shows, such oversight is anachronistic, a product of modern biases, and he corrects this by elucidating hundreds of fifteenth-century sources that engage with hair as a fundamental element in the definition of genders, morals, and the laws of nature, and the exercise of power. It is a book that will surprise and delight a wide audience of scholars and anyone interested in the hidden, systemic, creative power that relied on something as unsuspected as hair to coerce people into thinking and behaving according to a code of conduct"--
Download or read book A General Catalogue of Books written by Bernard Quaritch (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 1696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book A View of Venice written by Kristin Love Huffman and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2023-12-05 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jacopo de’ Barbari’s View of Venice, a woodcut first printed in the year 1500, presents a bird’s-eye portrait of Venice at its peak as an international hub of trade, art, and culture. An artistic and cartographic masterpiece of the Renaissance, the View depicts Venice as a vibrant, waterborne city interconnected by canals and bridges and filled with ornate buildings, elaborate gardens, and seafaring vessels. The contributors to A View of Venice: Portrait of a Renaissance City draw on a high-resolution digital scan of the over nine-foot-wide composite print to examine the complexities of this extraordinary woodcut and portrayal of early modern Venetian life. The essays show how the View constitutes an advanced material artifact of artistic, humanist, and scientific culture. They also outline the ways the print reveals information about the city’s economic and military power, religious and social infrastructures, and cosmopolitan residents. Featuring methodological advancements in the digital humanities, A View of Venice highlights the reality and myths of a topographically unique, mystical city and its place in the world. Contributors. Karen-edis Barzman, Andrea Bellieni, Patricia Fortini Brown, Valeria Cafà, Stanley Chojnacki, Tracy E. Cooper, Giada Damen, Julia A. DeLancey, Piero Falchetta, Ludovica Galeazzo, Maartje van Gelder, Jonathan Glixon, Richard Goy, Anna Christine Swartwood House, Kristin Love Huffman, Holly Hurlburt, Claire Judde de Larivière, Blake de Maria, Martina Massaro, Cosimo Monteleone, Monique O’Connell, Mary Pardo, Giorgio Tagliaferro, Saundra Weddle, Bronwen Wilson, Rangsook Yoon
Download or read book Publishers circular and booksellers record written by and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 870 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Les instruments des coles italiennes written by Jules Gallay and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Publishers Circular written by and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 902 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Athenaeum written by and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 948 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book A General Catalogue of Books The Supplement 1875 77 written by Bernard Quaritch and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Publishers Circular and General Record of British and Foreign Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
