Download or read book The Palazzo Del Te in Mantua written by Egon Verheyen and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Palazzo Te in Mantua written by Gianna Suitner Nicolini and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Palazzo Te Mantua written by Ugo Bazzotti and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Palazzo Te written by Ugo Bazzotti and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lavish Renaissance pleasure palace for rest and entertainment, decorated with spectacular frescoes of themes from ancient myth Built for Federico II Gonzaga Duke of Mantua between 1525 and 1536, Palazzo Te is the masterpiece of Renaissance artist, designer, and architect Giulio Romano, the most accomplished and favored of Raphael’s pupils. The palace’s interiors are replete with frescoes depicting imaginative scenes and trompe l’oeil fantasies of gods and heroes, fictive marble statues, and portraits of the Duke’s favorite thoroughbreds. From the erotic scenes of the Sala di Psiche to the famous Sala di Giganti, based on the mythological defeat of the Titans by the gods of Olympus, the High Renaissance ideal of classical harmony and balance is overtaken by breathtaking illusionist techniques and images of giants, falling masonry, and the thunderbolts from the gods.

Download or read book Guide to Palazzo Te written by Gian Maria Erbesato and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Architecture in Mantua From the Palazzo Ducale to the Burgo Paper Mill Ediz Illustrata written by Marco Introini and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Art of Mantua written by Barbara Furlotti and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2008 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Although most of Mantua's artistic treasures were sold or claimed as war spoils upon the decline of the Gonzaga family, the rich cultural legacy of this fascinating city lives on in the city's many surviving frescoes and in the collections of some of the world's premier museums These priceless works of art are reunited in the pages of this beautifully illustrated volume."--BOOK JACKET.

Download or read book Jacopo Strada and Cultural Patronage at The Imperial Court 2 Vols written by Dirk Jacob Jansen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-02-26 with total page 1109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Jacopo Strada and Cultural Patronage at the Imperial Court: Antiquity as Innovation, Dirk Jansen provides a survey of the life and career of the antiquary, architect, and courtier Jacopo Strada (Mantua 1515–Vienna 1588). His manifold activities — also as a publisher and as an agent and artistic and scholarly advisor of powerful patrons such as Hans Jakob Fugger, the Duke of Bavaria and the Emperors Ferdinand I and Maximilian II — are examined in detail, and studied within the context of the cosmopolitan learned and courtly environments in which he moved. These volumes offer a substantial reassessment of Strada’s importance as an agent of change, transmitting the ideas and artistic language of the Italian Renaissance to the North.

Download or read book Gender Space and Experience at the Renaissance Court written by Maria F. Maurer and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-12 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gender, Space, and Experience at the Renaissance Court investigates the dynamic relationships between gender and architectural space in Renaissance Italy. It examines the ceremonial use and artistic reception of the Palazzo Te from the arrival of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V in 1530 to the Sack of Mantua in 1630. This book further proposes that we conceptualise the built environment as a performative space, a space formed by the gendered relationships and actors of its time, asserting that the Palazzo Te was constituted by the gendered behaviors of sixteenth-century courtiers, but it was not simply a passive receptor of gender performance. Through its multivalent form and ceremonial function, Maria F. Maurer argues that the palace was an active participant in the construction and perception of femininity and masculinity in the early modern court.

Download or read book Classical Language of Architecture written by John Summerson and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Giulio Romano written by Barbara Furlotti and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Palazzo Te torna a celebrare, a distanza di trent'anni dalla grande monografica del 1989, il genio di Giulio Romano. L'esposizione, allestita nelle Sale Napoleoniche, indaga la relazione tra immagini erotiche del mondo classico e invenzioni figurative prodotte nella prima metà del Cinquecento in Italia, esponendo dipinti, disegni e oggetti preziosi provenienti da venti istituzioni, tra cui il Metropolitan Museum of Art di New York e l'Ermitage di San Pietroburgo. Concentrandosi sul lavoro di Giulio Romano, il percorso espositivo evidenzia la capillare diffusione di un vasto repertorio di rappresentazioni erotiche nella cultura artistica cinquecentesca e svela le influenze esistenti tra cultura alta e cultura bassa nella produzione di tali immagini. Exhibition: Palazzo Te, Mantova, Italy (06.10.2019-06.01.2020).

Download or read book The Art of Looking Up written by Catherine McCormack and published by White Lion Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Art of Looking Up surveys spectacular ceilings around the globe that have been graced by the brushes of great artists including Michelangelo, Marc Chagall and Cy Twombly. From the floating women and lotus flowers of the Senso-ji Temple in Japan, to the religious iconography that adorns places of worship from Vienna to Istanbul, all the way to bold displays like the Chihuly glass flora suspended from the lobby of the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas: this book takes you on a tour of the extraordinary artworks that demand an alternative viewpoint. History of art expert Catherine McCormack guides you through the stories behind the artworks – their conception, execution, and the artists that visualised them. In many cases, these artworks also make bold but controlled political, religious or cultural statements, revealing much about the society and times in which they were created. Divided by these social themes into four sections – Religion, Culture, Power and Politics – and pictured from various viewpoints in glorious colour photography, tour the astounding ceilings of these and more remarkable locations: Vatican Palace, Rome, Italy Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, UK Louvre Museum, Paris, France Dali Theatre-Museum, Figueres, Catalonia Museum of the Revolution, Havana, Cuba Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA Four eight-page foldout sections showcase some of the world's most spectacular ceilings in exquisite detail. First and foremost, this is a visual feast, but also a desirable art book that challenges you to seek out fine art in more unusual places and question the statements they may be making.

Download or read book Grand Design written by Elizabeth A. H. Cleland and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2014-10-06 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pieter Coecke van Aelst (1502 – 1550) was renowned throughout Renaissance Europe as a draftsman, painter, and publisher of architectural treatises. The magnificent tapestries he designed were acquired by the wealthiest clients of the day, up to and including rulers such as Emperor Charles V, King Francis I of France, King Henry VIII of England, and Grand Duke Cosimo I de’ Medici of Tuscany. At the same time, Coecke was remarkable not only for the complexity and unparalleled quality of his tapestries, but also for his fluency in various media: this lavishly illustrated volume examines the full range of his work, from tapestry and stained-glass window designs to panel paintings, prints, drawings, and architectural treatises. Though only forty-eight when he died, Coecke was one of the greatest Netherlandish artists of the sixteenth century. His paintings and drawings, initially wrought in the style of the Antwerp Mannerists, evolved through his enthusiastic response to Italian Renaissance design, and influenced generations of artists in his wake. This comprehensive study explores Coecke’s stylistic development, as well as his substantial contribution to the body of great Renaissance art in Flanders. Featuring twenty monumental tapestries, along with many of their cartoons and preparatory sketches, plus seven paintings, additional drawings, and printed matter—many of them newly photographed for this volume—Grand Design provides a thorough reappraisal of Coecke’s work, amply justifying the high regard in which Coecke’s work was held and its wide dissemination long after his death.

Download or read book The Architecture of the Italian Renaissance written by Christoph Luitpold Frommel and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on buildings of the period between 1418 and 1580 and 35 key architects. Examines social context, religious beliefs, political power-structures, technical innovation, aesthetic judgement . Includes over 300 photographs, drawings, plans and reconstructions. Sure to be the recognized textbook for the foreseeable future.

Download or read book The Court Cities of Northern Italy written by Charles M. Rosenberg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-21 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Court Cities of Northern Italy examines painting, sculpture, decorative arts, and architecture produced within the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries.

Download or read book The Palazzo Del Te written by Diana L. Michiulis and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis examines Giulio Romano's Late Renaissance masterwork, Palazzo del Te (c. 1525-36) in Mantua, in the context of playing a critical role in the political success of his patron, Federico II Gonzaga, vis-à-vis Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. At the Palazzo del Te, Giulio combined a multiplicity of techniques throughout, as well as viewer engagement in the Sala dei Giganti (c. 1530-34). The clever complexity of Giulio's palazzo stood in contrast to the conventional, two-dimensional portraits executed by many Cinquecento court artists for their benefactors. For centuries, scholars have deliberated Giulio's underlying intentions for his mysterious Room of the Giants at the palace. The debates range from Vasari's praise of the chamber in the 16th century; to the 20th and 21st centuries, when many academics have surmised that Giulio's Sala dei Giganti exalted the Gonzaga and somehow referred - or paid tribute - to the Imperial Emperor. In contrast, I assert that Giulo's Room of the Giants represented something dramatically different. The space, with its Fall of the Giants frescoes, conceivably held covert criticism of Emperor Charles V and the authoritarian political regime of the Holy Roman Empire. Giulio's masterpiece-chamber potentially comprised indirect political dissent against foreign, Imperial occupation of the Italian peninsula, and also condemned the vicious quagmire of dynastic politics in early 16th century Italy. During the savagery of the Italian Wars (1494-1559), deliberately obscure discourse was of crucial importance, as the State and Church limited all forms of critical dialogue. This thesis additionally considers the duality of Giulio's Palazzo del Te - although the palace was an autonomous work of art, according to Adorno's Aesthetic Theory - it was also an exhibit of Federico's princely power, whilst demonstrating an oppositional stance against the totalitarian political environment of early 16th century Italy, mostly via Giulio's "ugly" giants in the Sala dei Giganti. After his visit to Palazzo del Te in 1530, the Imperial Emperor was so stupefied by Giulio's palazzo and the Sala di Psiche (c. 1526-28), the companion room to the Sala dei Giganti, that the Habsburg monarch elevated Federico II Gonzaga to the first Duke of Mantua. Conversely in 1532, Charles V visited Palazzo del Te again and viewed the Sala dei Giganti - when he had to interpret for himself the enigmatic iconography of Giulio's Fall of the Giants frescoes. I argue that it was plausible that the emperor comprehended Giulio's arcane, political game of protest, which was similar to the Humanist Annibale Caro's construal of the moral allegory at the gardens of Bomarzo: Monarchs must not abuse their power, nor should they position themselves higher than the gods. Giulio Romano's genius and sophisticated, subtle wit, especially at his Late Renaissance chef d' oeuvre, Palazzo del Te, solidified his own artistic reputation while enabling his patron to triumph - in the midst of the treachery and chaos of Charles V's gigantic, political re-structuring of early 16th century Italy and her loss of political autonomy.

Download or read book Tracing the Visual Language of Raphael s Circle to 1527 written by Alexis R. Culotta and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-06-22 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexis R. Culotta explores how the Renaissance master’s recombination of visual sources ultimately served as a springboard for artistic innovation for his close associates as they collaborated in the years following Raphael’s death.