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Book The Social and Historical Significance of the Italian Renaissance Artifacts at the Villa Terrace Museum of Decorative Arts

Download or read book The Social and Historical Significance of the Italian Renaissance Artifacts at the Villa Terrace Museum of Decorative Arts written by Janice Kuhn and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Patron s Payoff

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  • Author : Jonathan K. Nelson
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2014-03-10
  • ISBN : 0691161941
  • Pages : 255 pages

Download or read book The Patron s Payoff written by Jonathan K. Nelson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-10 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of Italian Renaissance art from the perspective of the patrons who made 'conspicuous commissions', this text builds on three concepts from the economics of information - signaling, signposting, and stretching - to develop a systematic methodology for assessing the meaning of patronage.

Book Loan Exhibition of the Arts of the Italian Renaissance

Download or read book Loan Exhibition of the Arts of the Italian Renaissance written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Decorative Arts of the Italian Renaissance  1400 1600

Download or read book Decorative Arts of the Italian Renaissance 1400 1600 written by Detroit Institute of Arts and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Low and High Style in Italian Renaissance Art

Download or read book Low and High Style in Italian Renaissance Art written by Patricia Emison and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the later 15th and in the 16th centuries pictures began to be made without action, without place for heroism, pictures more rueful than celebratory. In part, Renaissance art adjusted to the social and economic pressures with an art we may be hard pressed to recognize under that same rubric-an art not so much of perfected nature as simply artless. Granted, the heroic and epic mode of the Renaissance was that practiced most self-consciously and proudly. Yet it is one of the accomplishments of Renaissance art that heroic and epic subjects and style occasionally made way for less affirmative subjects and compositional norms, for improvisation away from the Vitruvian ideal. The limits of idealizing art, during the very period denominated as High Renaissance, is a topic that involves us in the history of class prejudice, of gender stereotypes, of the conceptualization of the present, of attitudes toward the ordinary, and of scruples about the power of sight Exploring the low style leads us particularly to works of art intended for display in private settings as personally owned objects, potentially as signs of quite personal emotions rather than as subscriptions to publicly vaunted ideologies. Not all of them show shepherds or peasants; none of them-not even Giorgione's La tempesta -is a classic pastoral idyll. The rosso stile is to be understood as more comprehensive than that. The issue is not only who is represented, but whether the work can or cannot be fit into the mold of a basically affirmative art.

Book Only Connect

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  • Author : John Shearman
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2019-08-06
  • ISBN : 0691656835
  • Pages : 328 pages

Download or read book Only Connect written by John Shearman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Shearman makes the plea for a more engaged reading of art works of the Italian Renaissance, one that will recognize the presuppositions of Renaissance artists about their viewers. His book is the first attempt to construct a history of those Renaissance paintings and sculptures that are by design completed outside themselves in or by the spectator, that embrace the spectator into their narrative plot or aesthetic functioning, and that reposition the spectator imaginatively or in time and space. He takes the lead from texts and artists of the period, for these artists reveal themselves as spectators. Among modern historiographical techniques, Reception Theory is closest to the author's method, but Shearman's concern is mostly with anterior relationships with the viewer--that is, relationships conceived and constructed as part of the work's design, making, and positioning. Shearman proposes unconventional ways in which works of art may be distinguished one from another, and in which spectators may be distinguished, too, and enlarges the accepted field of artistic invention. Furthermore, His argument reflects on the Renaissance itself. What is created in this period tends to be regarded as conventional, or inherent in the nature of painting and sculpture: he maintains that this is a careless, disengaged view that has overlooked the process of discovery by immensely inventive and visually intelllectual artists. John Shearman is William Door Boardman Professor of Fine Arts at Harvard University. Among his works are Mannerism (Hardmondsworth/Penguin), Raphael's Cartoons in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen and the Tapestries for the Sistine Chapel (Phaidon), The Early Italian Paintings in teh Collection of Her Majesty the Queen (Cambridge). and Funzione e Illusione (il Saggiatore). The A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, 1988 Bollingen Series XXXV: 37 Originally Publsihed in 1992 The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Book Objects of Virtue

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  • Author : Luke Syson
  • Publisher : Getty Publications
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN : 9780892366576
  • Pages : 292 pages

Download or read book Objects of Virtue written by Luke Syson and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2001 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You are what you own. So believed many of the elite men and women of Renaissance Italy. The notion that a person's belongings transmit something about their personal history, status, and "character" was renewed in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Objects of Virtue explores the multiple meanings and values of the objects with which families like the Medici, Este, and Gonzaga surrounded themselves. This lavishly illustrated volume examines the complicated relationships between the so-called "fine arts"--painting and sculpture--and artifacts of other kinds for which artistry might be as important as utility-furniture, jewelry, and vessels made of gold, silver, and bronze, precious and semi-precious stone, glass, and ceramic. The works discussed were designed and made by artists as famous as Andrea Mantegna, Raphael, and Michelangelo, as well as by lesser-known specialists--goldsmiths, gem-engravers, glassmakers, and maiolica painters.

Book History of Italian Renaissance Art

Download or read book History of Italian Renaissance Art written by Frederick Hartt and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 1969 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Revaluing Renaissance Art

Download or read book Revaluing Renaissance Art written by Gabriele Neher and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2000: Michelangelo gave his painting of "Leda and the Swan" to an apprentice rather than hand it over to the emissary of the Duke of Ferrar, who had commissioned it. He was apparently disgusted by the failure of the emissary - who was probably more used to buying pigs than discussing art - to accord the picture and the artist the value they deserved. Any discussion of works of art and material culture implicitly assigns them a set of values. Whether these values be monetary, cultural or religious, they tend to constrict the ways in which such works can be discussed. The variety of potential forms of valuation becomes particularly apparent during the Italian Renaissance, when relations between the visual arts and humanistic studies were undergoing rapid changes against an equally fluid social, economic and political background. In this volume, 13 scholars explicitly examine some of the complex ways in which a variety of values might be associated with Italian Renaissance material culture. Papers range from a consideration of the basic values of the materials employed by artists, to the manifestation of cultural values in attitudes to dress and domestic devotion. By illuminating some of the ways in which values were constructed, they provide a broader context within which to evaluate Renaissance material culture.

Book Art of the Italian Renaissance Courts

Download or read book Art of the Italian Renaissance Courts written by Alison Cole and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 1995 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first major paperback original books on art in almost two decades, aimed at the general reader and students and reflecting the most recent developments in art history.

Book The Secret Language of the Renaissance

Download or read book The Secret Language of the Renaissance written by Richard Stemp and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magnificently illustrated throughout, and with a six-color gold-foil cover, this remarkable book provides an all-encompassing survey of the literature, painting, sculpture, architecture, and decorative arts of the Renaissance.

Book Collecting Art in the Italian Renaissance Court

Download or read book Collecting Art in the Italian Renaissance Court written by Leah R. Clark and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-28 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a new perspective on the Italian Renaissance court by examining the circulation, collection and exchange of art objects.

Book Visualizing the Past in Italian Renaissance Art

Download or read book Visualizing the Past in Italian Renaissance Art written by Jennifer Cochran Anderson and published by Brill's Studies on Art, Art Hi. This book was released on 2021 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The essays in Visualizing the Past in Italian Renaissance Art address a foundational concept that was as central to early modern thinking as it is to our own: that the past is always an important part of the present. Written by the friends, students, and colleagues of Dr. Brian Curran, former professor of Art History at the Pennsylvania State University, these authors demonstrate how reverberations of the past within the present are intrinsic to the ways in which we think about the history of art. Examinations of sculpture, painting, and architecture reveal the myriad ways that history has been appropriated, reinvented, and rewritten as subsequent generations-including the authors collected here-have attained new insight into the past and present. Contributors include Denise Costanzo, William E. Wallace, Theresa A. Kutasz Christensen, Ingrid Rowland, Anthony Cutler, Marilyn Aronberg Lavin, Louis Alexander Waldman, Elizabeth Petersen Cyron, Stuart Lingo, Jessica Boehman, Katherine M. Bentz, Robin L. Thomas, and John Pinto"--

Book The Triumph of Humanism

Download or read book The Triumph of Humanism written by Charles Avery and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Artisans  Objects and Everyday Life in Renaissance Italy

Download or read book Artisans Objects and Everyday Life in Renaissance Italy written by Paula Hohti Erichsen and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did ordinary Italians have a 'Renaissance'? This book presents the first in-depth exploration of how artisans and small local traders experienced the material and cultural Renaissance. Drawing on a rich blend of sixteenth century visual and archival evidence, it examines how individuals and families at artisanal levels (such as shoemakers, barbers, bakers and innkeepers) lived and worked, managed their household economies and consumption, socialised in their homes, and engaged with the arts and the markets for luxury goods. It demonstrates that although the economic and social status of local craftsmen and traders was relatively low, their material possessions show how these men and women who rarely make it into the history books were fully engaged with contemporary culture, cultural customs and the urban way of life.

Book Renaissance Treasures from the Edmond Foulc Collection

Download or read book Renaissance Treasures from the Edmond Foulc Collection written by Philadelphia Museum of Art and published by Philadelphia Museum of Art. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The publication offers an overview of the world-class collection of French and Italian Renaissance sculpture and decorative arts assembled by Edmond Foulc (1828-1916), as well as a discussion of the Philadelphia Museum of Art's efforts to secure these treasures for its new building in 1930"--

Book The Arts of the Italian Renaissance  Painting  Sculpture  Architecture

Download or read book The Arts of the Italian Renaissance Painting Sculpture Architecture written by Walter Paatz and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: