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Book Art in Genoa  1600 1750

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jonathan Bober
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2020-04-28
  • ISBN : 0691206511
  • Pages : 385 pages

Download or read book Art in Genoa 1600 1750 written by Jonathan Bober and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Genoa completed its transformation from a faded maritime power into a thriving banking center for Europe in the seventeenth century. The wealth accumulated by its leading families spurred investment in the visual arts on an enormous scale. This volume explores how artists both foreign and native created a singularly rich and extravagant expression of the baroque in works of extraordinary variety, sumptuousness, and exuberance. This art, however, has remained largely hidden behind the facades of the city's palaces, with few works, apart from those by the school's great expatriates, found beyond its borders. As a result, the Genoese baroque has been insufficiently considered or appreciated.0Lavishly illustrated, 'A Superb Baroque' is comprehensive, encompassing all the major media and participants. Presented are some 140 select works by the celebrated foreigners drawn to the city and its flourishing environment. Offering three levels of exploration-essays that frame and interpret, section introductions that characterize principal currents and stages, and texts that elucidate individual works-this volume is by far the most extensive study of the Genoese baroque in the English language.00Exhibition: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA (03.05.-16.08.2020) / Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome, Italy (03.10.2020 - 10.01.2021).

Book Encounters

Download or read book Encounters written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exhibition of seven paintings by contemporary Italian artists reacting to seven European old master paintings displayed together

Book Guida Artistica Per la Citt   Di Genova

Download or read book Guida Artistica Per la Citt Di Genova written by Federigo Alizeri and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mantegna to Rubens

    Book Details:
  • Author : Xanthe Brooke
  • Publisher : Merrell
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 216 pages

Download or read book Mantegna to Rubens written by Xanthe Brooke and published by Merrell. This book was released on 1998 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first public presentation of this major collection of the old Master drawings.

Book Rembrandt and the Female Nude

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  • Author : Eric Jan Sluijter
  • Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 9053568379
  • Pages : 452 pages

Download or read book Rembrandt and the Female Nude written by Eric Jan Sluijter and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rembrandt’s extraordinary paintings of female nudes—Andromeda, Susanna, Diana and her Nymphs, Danaë, Bathsheba—as well as his etchings of nude women, have fascinated many generations of art lovers and art historians. But they also elicited vehement criticism when first shown, described as against-the-grain, anticlassical—even ugly and unpleasant. However, Rembrandt chose conventional subjects, kept close to time-honored pictorial schemes, and was well aware of the high prestige accorded to the depiction of the naked female body. Why, then, do these works deviate so radically from the depictions of nude women by other artists? To answer this question Eric Jan Sluijter, in Rembrandt and the Female Nude, examines Rembrandt’s paintings and etchings against the background of established pictorial traditions in the Netherlands and Italy. Exploring Rembrandt’s intense dialogue with the works of predecessors and peers, Sluijter demonstrates that, more than any other artist, Rembrandt set out to incite the greatest possible empathy in the viewer, an approach that had far-reaching consequences for the moral and erotic implications of the subjects Rembrandt chose to depict. In this richly illustrated study, Sluijter presents an innovative approach to Rembrandt’s views on the art of painting, his attitude towards antiquity and Italian art of the Renaissance, his sustained rivalry with the works of other artists, his handling of the moral and erotic issues inherent in subjects with female nudes, and the nature of his artistic choices.

Book The Masters  and the Forgers  Secrets

Download or read book The Masters and the Forgers Secrets written by Roger H. Marijnissen and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with works of art. X-radiography is one of the most marvellous ways of studying them. X-rays can reveal critically important aspects of an objects condition and the materials used to create it, as well as providing information about the artists creative process. With the present advent of a new field of expertise, technical art history, X-radiography is back at the centre of scholars attention. This richly illustrated survey includes over 250 X-rays with notes and commentary, providing scientific information as well as guidance for comparing documents to scholars and collectors.

Book In Michelangelo s Mirror

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  • Author : Morten Steen Hansen
  • Publisher : Penn State Press
  • Release : 2013
  • ISBN : 0271056401
  • Pages : 238 pages

Download or read book In Michelangelo s Mirror written by Morten Steen Hansen and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Explores the imitation of Michelangelo by three artists, Perino del Vaga, Daniele da Volterra, and Pellegrino Tibaldi, from the 1520s to the time around Michelangelo's death in 1564. Argues that his Mannerist followers applied imitation to identify with and/or create ironical distance from to the older artist"--Provided by publisher.

Book Francia settentrionale e centrale

Download or read book Francia settentrionale e centrale written by and published by EDT srl. This book was released on 2011-11-16 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti and the cinematic nature of vision

Download or read book Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti and the cinematic nature of vision written by Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study looks at artistic expressions that are often not directly related, such as art, dance, architecture and cinema. Ragghianti's study of cinema, the electronic image and art brings together a series of images under the heading "the art of vision". His theories have reinterpreted art history and continue to be relevant in the late 1990s. In this volume, architectural and set drawings, choreography sketches, theatrical maquettes, film and video installations are placed next to 200 works of major European artists of the 20th century.

Book National Union Catalog

Download or read book National Union Catalog written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes entries for maps and atlases.

Book Oud Holland

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  • Author : Nicolaas de Roever
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 224 pages

Download or read book Oud Holland written by Nicolaas de Roever and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book National Traditions in Nineteenth Century Opera  Volume I

Download or read book National Traditions in Nineteenth Century Opera Volume I written by Steven Huebner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume covers opera in Italy, France, England and the Americas during the long nineteenth century (1789-1914). The book is divided into four sections that are thematically, rather than geographically, conceived: Places-essays centering on contexts for operatic culture; Genres and Styles-studies dealing with the question of how operas in this period were put together; Critical Studies of individual works, exemplifying particular critical trends; and Performance.

Book L arte

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1906
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 540 pages

Download or read book L arte written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Library of Congress Catalog

Download or read book Library of Congress Catalog written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with 1953, entries for Motion pictures and filmstrips, Music and phonorecords form separate parts of the Library of Congress catalogue. Entries for Maps and atlases were issued separately 1953-1955.

Book Altomani   Sons

Download or read book Altomani Sons written by Andrea Ciaroni and published by Altomani & Sons. This book was released on 2003-03-01 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Pietro Mascagni and His Operas

Download or read book Pietro Mascagni and His Operas written by Alan Mallach and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2002 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just twenty-six when the electrifying premiere of his Cavalleria Rusticana at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome catapulted the impoverished musician into sudden fame and fortune, Pietro Mascagni (1863-1945) went on to write fifteen more operas, including L'Amico Fritz, Guglielmo Ratcliff, Iris, Parisina, and Il Piccolo Marat. With privileged access to extensive primary sources, including Mascagni's 4,200 letters to Anna Lolli, his mistress for more than three decades, author Alan Mallach provides a compelling portrait of a flamboyant, combative, and emotional man who was passionately devoted to the Italian opera tradition and committed to innovation in musical language and dramatic form. Deftly combining serious biography with critical commentary, Mallach begins with the captivating story of Mascagni's rags-to-riches adventure, from his birth in Livorno in Tuscany, to his musical studies first with Alfredo Soffredini and later at the Milan Conservatory, to his years as a vagabond musician, to the worldwide success of his breakthrough opera. He then traces Mascagni's private and professional life after Cavalleria, examining a prolific yet controversial career that was forever overshadowed by the work that unexpectedly thrust him into the limelight. Mallach provides a full analysis of Mascagni's oeuvre and discusses his complex relationships with such Italian cultural and political figures as Edoardo Sonzogno, Giacomo Puccini, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Luigi Illica, and Benito Mussolini. He also thoroughly chronicles Mascagni's bouts with manic depression, his marriage to Lina and devotion to their three children, his grueling schedule of concert and operatic tours, his patriotism and bitter opposition to Italy's involvement in both world wars, and his passionate love affair with Anna Lolli. This richly textured biography will appeal to fans of the still beloved and popular Cavalleria, and it will introduce opera enthusiasts to the power, intensity, and melodic beauty of the brilliant composer's many other significant works.

Book Florence  Berlin and Beyond  Late Nineteenth Century Art Markets and their Social Networks

Download or read book Florence Berlin and Beyond Late Nineteenth Century Art Markets and their Social Networks written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-06-22 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the basis of extensive archival research, the essays in this volume examine the minutiae of object transaction in the late nineteenth-century art market within its social network and broader historical context.