Download or read book Pisanello written by Luke Syson and published by National Gallery Publications Limited. This book was released on 2001 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pisanello (c.1394-1455) was the most celebrated artist of the early Italian Renaissance. A painter in fresco and on panel, a prolific and innovative draughtsman prized especially for minutely observed studies of animals and birds, he also became the first modern specialist of the portrait medal. Inspired equally by Arthurian romance, Gothic manuscript illuminations, classical antiquity and contemporary court fashions, his work provides a vivid record of the interests and ideals of his patrons, notably the Gonzaga, Este and Visconti rulers of northern Italian city states. To a modern viewer, Pisanello reveals an enchanted world, at once elegant, imaginative and intensely naturalistic. Yet with the loss of most of his paintings, and the dispersion in specialised museum collections of his drawings and medals, the artist's fame has been eclipsed. This is the first comprehensive book in English for almost a century to present a full survey of his life and work. Taking as their starting point an analysis in depth of his two exquisite panel pictures in the National Gallery, London - The Vision of Saint Eustace and The Virgin and Child with Saint Anthony Abbot and Saint George - the authors give a detailed account of Pisanello's imagery, his techniques and working methods, of his probable teachers and influences, his collaborators and followers. But the book is not confined to artistic matters alone. By firmly situating Pisanello within the fascinating political and intellectual life of the fifteenth-century Italian courts, it also illuminates a defining moment in European culture: when chivalric values were reconciled with humanist learning, Christian piety with Ciceronian eloquence, the arts of war with the art of living worthily - and a contemporary visual artist, Pisanello himself, first received the plaudits of poets and scholars.

Download or read book Master Drawings of the Italian Renaissance written by Claire Van Cleave and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Beginning with an examination of drawing as part of the creative process, and showing how it reveals the artist's mind at work, the author explains in detail the materials and techniques used in Renaissance drawings. It also considers how drawings were used, how they changed stylistically through the period and how they varied in different regions of Italy. It concludes with a brief look at connoisseurship and collecting."--Amazon.

Download or read book The Speaker written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Behind the Picture written by British Academy Wolfson Research Professor Department of the History of Art Martin Kemp and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers the business of picture-making in the Renaissance. In particular, the text discusses the role of the artist and the functions of works of art in relation to their various kinds of audience.

Download or read book Pisanello s Medallion of the Emperor John VIII Palaeologus written by Roberto Weiss and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Making Renaissance Art written by Kim Woods and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores key themes in the making of Renaissance painting, sculpture, architecture, and prints: the use of specific techniques and materials, theory and practice, change and continuity in artistic procedures, conventions and values. It also reconsiders the importance of mathematical perspective, the assimilation of the antique revival, and the illusion of life. Embracing the full significance of Renaissance art requires understanding how it was made. As manifestations of technical expertise and tradition as much as innovation, artworks of this period reveal highly complex creative processes--allowing us an inside view on the vexed issue of the notion of a renaissance.

Download or read book The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting written by Raimond van Marle and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book For the Love of Dachshunds written by Robert Hutchinson and published by Browntrout Publishers. This book was released on 2005-02 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Text investigates the conformation, genetics,and breed history of the Dachshund. Includes over 100 full-color photographs"--Provided by publisher.

Download or read book Adrian Stokes written by Stephen Kite and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-12-02 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Adrian Stokes (1902-72) - aesthete, critic, painter and poet - is among the most original and creative writers on art of the twentieth century. He was the author of over twenty critical books and numerous papers: for example, the remarkable series of books published in the 1930s; The Quattro Cento (1932), Stones of Rimini (1934), and Colour and Form (1937) that embraced Mediterranean culture and modernity. His criticism extends the evocative English aesthetic tradition of Walter Pater and John Ruskin into the present, endowed by a stern sensibility to the consolations offered by art and architecture, and the insights that psychoanalysis affords. Indeed, for Stokes architecture provides the entree into art, and this book is the first study to comprehensively examine Stokess theory of art from a specifically architectonic perspective. The volume explores the crucial experiences through which this architectonic awareness evolved; traces the influence upon Stokes of places, texts and personalities, and examines how his theory of art developed and matured. The argument is supported by appropriate illustrations to confirm the evidence that Stokess claim for architecture as mother of the arts carries the deepest experiential and psychological import."

Download or read book Hollow Men written by Susan Gaylard and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzes texts and art objects from the 15th to the late 16th centuries to show that Renaissance theories of emulating classical heroes generated a deep skepticism about representation, as these theories forced men to construct a public image that seemed fixed but could adapt to changing circumstances.

Download or read book The Problem of Fiorenzo Di Lorenzo of Perugia written by Jean Carlyle Graham and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A History of Painting The renaissance in Venice written by Haldane Macfall and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Guennol Collection written by Ida Ely Rubin and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1975 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Portrait Medals of Italian Artists of the Renaissance written by Sir George Francis Hill and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on 1912 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Animal Sightings written by Jodi Cranston and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2024-10-08 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Animal Sightings challenges two common ideas about the depiction of animals in early modern European court art: first, that the human figure relegated animals to peripheral and often symbolic roles, both compositionally and conceptually, and second, that the representation of animals during this period was predominantly tied to a growing interest in naturalism derived from scientific study and discovery. Art historian Jodi Cranston considers the diversity of art representing animals common to that time and place, including dogs, stags, falcons, and even insects. She discusses how early modern European courts (primarily in northern Italy, Tyrol, Saxony, and southern Germany, where the preponderance of European courtly activity related to animals occurred) acquired and kept living animals, sponsored hunts in purpose-cultivated forests, and fostered trade in animal products. The diverse works created by artists associated with those courts reveal an ambivalent and complex view of animals as beings who shared and shaped the world alongside humans. Ultimately, Animal Sightings explores how early modern artists and viewers thought about human-animal interactions, how visual representation facilitated and inhibited knowledge about animals, and how animals could reveal the limits and possibilities of visual representation. It should be of special interest to scholars of early modern studies, art history, and animal studies.

Download or read book The Athenaeum written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 932 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Spink Son s Monthly Numismatic Circular written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: