Download or read book Persian Poetry Painting and Patronage written by Marianna Shreve Simpson and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Commissioned by Prince Sultan Ibrahim Mirza in 1556, five Iranian court calligraphers devoted nine years to transcribing the poetic text of the great Persian classic, the Haft awrang (Seven Thrones), by the mystical poet Abdul-Rahman Jami. Then a team of gifted artists undertook the illumination and illustration of the manuscript. The masterpiece they created—housed today in the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and known as the Freer Jami—is a sumptuous volume of some three hundred folios of elegant cursive script with richly decorated margins, thousands of multicolored section dividers, nine illuminated headings and nine colophons that begin and end the main divisions of the text, and twenty-nine full-scale paintings. This gorgeous book reproduces to scale the Freer Jami paintings, discusses each in detail, and introduces the manuscript’s patron and the artist’s painting style and meaning. Marianna Shreve Simpson describes the cultural and artistic milieu in which Sultan Ibrahim Mirza’s great manuscript was created and explores the special style and imagery of the illustrations. She then considers the poetic content and mystical significance of the related passages, how the paintings interpret the passages, and the unique and innovative aspects of each painting. In the themes and images of the paintings, Simpson finds, are clues to the message of the manuscript as a whole. This book also includes a timeline of milestones in the prince’s life and in the production of his Haft awrang. Copublished with the Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

Download or read book Piero s Painting and Other Poems and Papers written by Florence Smith and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Description in Classical Arabic Poetry written by Akiko Motoyoshi Sumi and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2004 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work deals with "wasf" or description which is one of the salient characteristics of the "qasidah" (classical Arabic poetry) tradition. It examines descriptive passages in a selected group of Arabic "qasidah" from different ages, with the motifs of horses, and bees and honey-gathering.

Download or read book The Rape of the Lock written by Alexander Pope and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Cutting Edge of the Poet s Sword Muslim Poetic Responses to the Crusades written by Osman Latiff and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-09-25 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this comprehensive analysis of Arabic poetry during the period of the crusades (sixth/twelfth-seventh/thirteenth centuries), Osman Latiff provides an insightful examination of the poets who inspired Muslims to unite in the jihād against the Franks. The Cutting Edge of the Poet’s Sword not only contributes to our understanding of literary history, it also illuminates a broad spectrum of religiosity and the role of political propaganda in the anti-Frankish Muslim struggle. Latiff shows how poets, often used by the ruling elite to promote their rule, emphasised the centrality of Islam’s holy sites to inspire the Muslim response to the occupation and later reconquest of Jerusalem, and expressed some surprising views of Frankish Christians.

Download or read book Portraits and Poses written by Beatrijs Vanacker and published by Leuven University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-28 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interdisciplinary and cross-cultural view on authority construction among early modern female intellectuals The complex relation between gender and the representation of intellectual authority has deep roots in European history. Portraits and Poses adopts a historical approach to shed new light on this topical subject. It addresses various modes and strategies by which learned women (authors, scientists, jurists, midwifes, painters, and others) sought to negotiate and legitimise their authority at the dawn of modern science in Early Modern and Enlightenment Europe (1600–1800). This volume explores the transnational dimensions of intellectual networks in France, Italy, Britain, the German states and the Low Countries, among others. Drawing on a wide range of case studies from different spheres of professionalisation, it examines both individual and collective constructions of female intellectual authority through word and image. In its innovative combination of an interdisciplinary and transnational approach, this volume contributes to the growing literature on women and intellectual authority in the Early Modern Era and outlines contours for future research.

Download or read book Titian s Portraits through Aretino s Lens written by and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After classical antiquity, the Italian Renaissance raised the portrait, whether literary or pictorial, to the status of an important art form. Among sixteenth-century Renaissance painters, Titian made his reputation, and much of his living, by portraiture. Titian's portraits were promoted by his friend, Pietro Aretino, an eminent poet and critic, who addressed his letters and sonnets to the same personages whom Titian portrayed. In many of these letters (which often included sonnets), Aretino described both an individual patron and Titian's portrait of that patron, thus stimulating the reciprocal relation between a verbal and pictorial portrait. By investigating this unprecedented historical phenomenon, Luba Freedman elucidates the meaning conveyed by the portrait as an artistic form in Renaissance Italy. Fusing iconographical analysis of the most famous Titian portraits with rhetorical analysis of Aretino's literary legacy as compared to contemporary reactions, Freedman demonstrates that it is due to Titian's many portraits and to Aretino's repeated simultaneous writings about them that the portrait ceased being primarily a social-historical document, preserving the sitter's likeness for posterity. It gradually became, as it is today, a work of art, the artist's invention, which gives its viewer an aesthetic pleasure.

Download or read book The Pictured Word written by Heusser and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-11-27 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ISBN 9042001909 (paperback) NLG 45.00 From the contents: On representation in concrete and semiotic poetry (Claus Cluever). - L'image pensee (Aron Kibedi Varga).- Seeing and believing in the early Middle Ages: a preliminary investigation (Giselle de Nie).- Visual literature and semiotic conventions (Eric Vos).- The assertion of heterodoxy in Kyoden's verbal-visual texts (Fumiko Togasaki).

Download or read book A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles written by Sir Sidney Lee and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the life and works of William Shakespeare, the greatest writer in the English language and the pre-eminent dramatist of all time. Sidney Lee, a leading Shakespearean scholar and editor, presents a comprehensive overview of Shakespeare's life, from his birth and upbringing in Stratford-upon-Avon, to his successful career as an actor, writer, and part-owner of a playing company in London, and his later retirement in Stratford. Lee illuminates Shakespeare's genius through his plays, sonnets, and other works, showcasing his unparalleled knowledge of human character, wealth of humor, depth of passion, fertility of fancy, and soundness of judgment. A must-read for anyone seeking to understand the life and legacy of the Bard of Avon.

Download or read book The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems written by Alexander Pope and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2020-01-09 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems" by Alexander Pope. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Download or read book A History of Old Norse Poetry and Poetics written by Margaret Clunies Ross and published by DS Brewer. This book was released on 2005 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accessible guide to and description of the medieval poetic tradition in Scandinavia. This is the first book in English to deal with the twin subjects of Old Norse poetry and the various vernacular treatises on native poetry that were a conspicuous feature of medieval intellectual life in Iceland and the Orkneys from the mid-twelfth to the fourteenth centuries. Its aim is to give a clear description of the rich poetic tradition of early Scandinavia, particularly in Iceland, where it reached its zenith, and to demonstrate the social contextsthat favoured poetic composition, from the oral societies of the early Viking Age in Norway and its colonies to the devout compositions of literate Christian clerics in fourteenth-century Iceland. The author analyses the two dominant poetic modes, eddic and skaldic, giving fresh examples of their various styles and subjects; looks at the prose contexts in which most Old Norse poetry has been preserved; and discusses problems of interpretation thatarise because of the poetry's mode of transmission. She is concerned throughout to link indigenous theory with practice, beginning with the pre-Christian ideology of poets as favoured by the god ódinn and concluding with the Christian notion that a plain style best conveys the poet's message. Margaret Clunies Ross is McCaughey Professor of English Language and Early English Literature and Director of the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Sydney.

Download or read book The Drawings of Bronzino written by Carmen Bambach and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2010 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawings by the great Italian Mannerist painter and poet Agnolo Bronzino (1503-1572) are extremely rare. This important and beautiful publication brings together for the first time nearly all of the sixty drawings attributed to this leading draftsman of the 16th century. Each drawing is illustrated in color, discussed in detail, and shown with many comparative photographs. Bronzino's technical virtuosity as a draftsman and his mastery of anatomy and perspective are vividly apparent in each stroke of the chalk, pen, or brush. The younger generations of Florentine artists particularly admired Bronzino for his technical virtuosity as a painter, and Giorgio Vasari praised him for his powers as a disegnatore (designer and draftsman).

Download or read book Portraits and Philosophy written by Hans Maes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-20 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portraits are everywhere. One finds them not only in museums and galleries, but also in newspapers and magazines, in the homes of people and in the boardrooms of companies, on stamps and coins, on millions of cell phones and computers. Despite its huge popularity, however, portraiture hasn’t received much philosophical attention. While there are countless art historical studies of portraiture, contemporary philosophy has largely remained silent on the subject. This book aims to address that lacuna. It brings together philosophers (and philosophically minded historians) with different areas of expertise to discuss this enduring and continuously fascinating genre. The chapters in this collection are ranged under five broad themes. Part I examines the general nature of portraiture and what makes it distinctive as a genre. Part II looks at some of the subgenres of portraiture, such as double portraiture, and at some special cases, such as sport card portraits and portraits of people not present. How emotions are expressed and evoked by portraits is the central focus of Part III, while Part IV explores the relation between portraiture, fiction, and depiction more generally. Finally, in Part V, some of the ethical issues surrounding portraiture are addressed. The book closes with an epilogue about portraits of philosophers. Portraits and Philosophy tangles with deep questions about the nature and effects of portraiture in ways that will substantially advance the scholarly discussion of the genre. It will be of interest to scholars and students working in philosophy of art, history of art, and the visual arts.

Download or read book The Gallery of Portraits All 7 Volumes written by Arthur Thomas Malkin and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2021-05-07 with total page 1361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gallery of Portraits with Memoirs is a seven volumes edition which contains biographies of eminent men in literature, arts and history. Table of Contents: Volume 1: Dante Sir H. Davy Kosciusko Flaxman Copernicus Milton Jas. Watt Turenne Hon. R. Boyle Sir I. Newton Michael Angelo Moliere C. J. Fox Bossuet Lorenzo de Medici Geo. Buchanan Fénélon Sir C. Wren Corneille Halley Sully N. Poussin Harvey Sir J. Banks Volume 2: Lord Somers Smeaton Buffon Sir Thomas More La Place Handel Pascal Erasmus Titian Luther Rodney Lagrange Voltaire Rubens Richelieu Wollaston Boccaccio Claude Nelson Cuvier Ray Cook Turgot Peter the Great Volume 3: Erskine Dollond John Hunter Petrarch Burke Henry IV. Bentley Kepler Hale Franklin Schwartz Barrow D'Alembert Hogarth Galileo Rembrandt Dryden La Perouse Cranmer Tasso Ben Jonson Canova Chaucer Sobieski Volume 4: Daguesseau Cromwell Lionardo da Vinci Vauban William III. Goethe Correggio Napoleon Linnæus Priestley Ariosto Marlborough De l'Epée Colbert Washington Murillo Cervantes Frederic II. Delambre Drake Charles V. Des Cartes Spenser Grotius Volume 5: Taylor Lavoisier Sydenham Clarendon Reynolds Swift Locke Selden Paré Blake L'Hôpital Mrs. Siddons Herschel Romilly Shakspeare Euler Sir W. Jones Rousseau Harrison Montaigne Pope Bolivar Arkwright Cowper Volume 6: Raleigh Jenner Maskelyne Hobbes Raphael John Knox Adam Smith Calvin Lord Mansfield Bradley Melancthon William Pitt Wesley Dr. Cartwright Porson Wiclif Cortez Leibnitz Ximenes Addison Bramante Madame de Stael Palladio Queen Elizabeth Volume 7: Gustavus Adolphus Marc Antonio Raimondi Coke Gibbon Scaliger Penn De Thou Chatham Mozart Loyola Brindley Schiller Bentham Catherine II. Defoe Hume De Witt Hampden Dr. Johnson Jefferson Wilberforce Dr. Black Bacon Sir Walter Scott

Download or read book The Gallery of Portraits Vol 1 7 written by Arthur Thomas Malkin and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2020-09-11 with total page 1362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gallery of Portraits with Memoirs is a seven volumes edition which contains biographies of eminent men in literature, arts and history._x000D_ Table of Contents:_x000D_ Volume 1:_x000D_ Dante_x000D_ Sir H. Davy_x000D_ Kosciusko_x000D_ Flaxman_x000D_ Copernicus_x000D_ Milton_x000D_ Jas. Watt_x000D_ Turenne_x000D_ Hon. R. Boyle_x000D_ Sir I. Newton_x000D_ Michael Angelo_x000D_ Moliere_x000D_ C. J. Fox_x000D_ Bossuet_x000D_ Lorenzo de Medici_x000D_ Geo. Buchanan_x000D_ Fénélon_x000D_ Sir C. Wren_x000D_ Corneille_x000D_ Halley_x000D_ Sully_x000D_ N. Poussin_x000D_ Harvey_x000D_ Sir J. Banks_x000D_ Volume 2:_x000D_ Lord Somers_x000D_ Smeaton_x000D_ Buffon_x000D_ Sir Thomas More_x000D_ La Place_x000D_ Handel_x000D_ Pascal_x000D_ Erasmus_x000D_ Titian_x000D_ Luther_x000D_ Rodney_x000D_ Lagrange_x000D_ Voltaire_x000D_ Rubens_x000D_ Richelieu_x000D_ Wollaston_x000D_ Boccaccio_x000D_ Claude_x000D_ Nelson_x000D_ Cuvier_x000D_ Ray_x000D_ Cook_x000D_ Turgot_x000D_ Peter the Great_x000D_ Volume 3:_x000D_ Erskine_x000D_ Dollond_x000D_ John Hunter_x000D_ Petrarch_x000D_ Burke_x000D_ Henry IV._x000D_ Bentley_x000D_ Kepler_x000D_ Hale_x000D_ Franklin_x000D_ Schwartz_x000D_ Barrow_x000D_ D'Alembert_x000D_ Hogarth_x000D_ Galileo_x000D_ Rembrandt_x000D_ Dryden_x000D_ La Perouse_x000D_ Cranmer_x000D_ Tasso_x000D_ Ben Jonson_x000D_ Canova_x000D_ Chaucer_x000D_ Sobieski_x000D_ Volume 4:_x000D_ Daguesseau_x000D_ Cromwell_x000D_ Lionardo da Vinci_x000D_ Vauban_x000D_ William III._x000D_ Goethe_x000D_ Correggio_x000D_ Napoleon_x000D_ Linnæus_x000D_ Priestley_x000D_ Ariosto_x000D_ Marlborough_x000D_ De l'Epée_x000D_ Colbert_x000D_ Washington_x000D_ Murillo_x000D_ Cervantes_x000D_ Frederic II._x000D_ Delambre_x000D_ Drake_x000D_ Charles V._x000D_ Des Cartes_x000D_ Spenser_x000D_ Grotius_x000D_ Volume 5:_x000D_ Taylor_x000D_ Lavoisier_x000D_ Sydenham_x000D_ Clarendon_x000D_ Reynolds_x000D_ Swift_x000D_ Locke_x000D_ Selden_x000D_ Paré_x000D_ Blake_x000D_ L'Hôpital _x000D_ Mrs. Siddons_x000D_ Herschel_x000D_ Romilly _x000D_ Shakspeare_x000D_ Euler_x000D_ Sir W. Jones_x000D_ Rousseau_x000D_ Harrison_x000D_ Montaigne_x000D_ Pope_x000D_ Bolivar_x000D_ Arkwright_x000D_ Cowper_x000D_ Volume 6:_x000D_ Raleigh_x000D_ Jenner_x000D_ Maskelyne_x000D_ Hobbes_x000D_ Raphael_x000D_ John Knox_x000D_ Adam Smith_x000D_ Calvin_x000D_ Lord Mansfield_x000D_ Bradley_x000D_ Melancthon_x000D_ William Pitt_x000D_ Wesley_x000D_ Dr. Cartwright_x000D_ Porson_x000D_ Wiclif_x000D_ Cortez_x000D_ Leibnitz_x000D_ Ximenes_x000D_ Addison_x000D_ Bramante_x000D_ Madame de Stael_x000D_ Palladio_x000D_ Queen Elizabeth_x000D_ Volume 7:_x000D_ Gustavus Adolphus_x000D_ Marc Antonio Raimondi_x000D_ Coke_x000D_ Gibbon_x000D_ Scaliger_x000D_ Penn De Thou_x000D_ Chatham_x000D_ Mozart_x000D_ Loyola_x000D_ Brindley_x000D_ Schiller_x000D_ Bentham_x000D_ Catherine II._x000D_ Defoe_x000D_ Hume_x000D_ De Witt_x000D_ Hampden_x000D_ Dr. Johnson_x000D_ Jefferson_x000D_ Wilberforce_x000D_ Dr. Black_x000D_ Bacon_x000D_ Sir Walter Scott

Download or read book The Canterbury Tales with Other Poems written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Ancient Greek Portrait Sculpture written by Sheila Dillon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-04-24 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a new approach to the history of Greek portraiture by focusing on portraits without names. Comprehensively illustrated, it brings together a wide range of evidence that has never before been studied as a group. Sheila Dillon considers the few original bronze and marble portrait statues preserved from the Classical and Hellenistic periods together with the large number of Greek portraits known only through Roman 'copies'. In focusing on a series of images that have previously been ignored, Dillon investigates the range of strategies and modes utilized in these portraits to construct their subject's identity. Her methods undermine two basic tenets of Greek portraiture: first, that is was only in the late Hellenistic period, under Roman influence, that Greek portraits exhibited a wide range of styles, including descriptive realism; and second, that in most cases, one can easily tell a subject's public role - that is, whether he is a philosopher of an orator - from the visual traits used in this portrait. The sculptures studied here instead show that the proliferation of portrait styles takes place much earlier, in the late Classical period; and that the identity encoded in these portraits is much more complex and layered than has previously been realized. Despite the fact that these portraits lack the one feature most prized by scholars of ancient portraiture - a name - they are evidence of utmost importance for the history of Greek portraiture.