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Book WebMuseum  Paris  Canaletto

Download or read book WebMuseum Paris Canaletto written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features Venetian painter Giovanni Antonio Canal (1697-1768), also known as Canaletto. Contains a biography of the artist and notes that he is considered the most famous view-painter of the 18th century. Provides a photographic image of his painting "Piazza San Marco--Looking Southeast" (1735-1740), which hangs in the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C.

Book Directory of Web Sites

Download or read book Directory of Web Sites written by Graham Bennett and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1999 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Overloaded with the mass of information on the Internet? Frustrated by how difficult it is to find what you really want? Now you don't need to spend hours browsing around the Internet or grappling with the huge number of "hits" from an Internet search engine: the Directory of Web Sites will take you straight to the best educational sites on the Internet. From archaeology to zoology, from dance to technology, the Directory provides information more than 5,500 carefully selected Web sites that represent the best of what the Internet has to offer. The sites are grouped by subject; each one features a full description; and the text is complemented throughout by screenshots and fact boxes. As well, sites have been selected purely on educational merit: all sites with overtly commercial content and influence from Internet providers have been excluded.

Book WebMuseum  Paris  Giordana  Luca

Download or read book WebMuseum Paris Giordana Luca written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers information on the Italian painter Luca Giordana (1634-1705), presented as part of the WebMuseum, Paris Web site of Nicolas Pioch. Includes a biographical sketch of Giordana and contains images and descriptions of some of his paintings.

Book Where in the World

Download or read book Where in the World written by Bob Raczka and published by Millbrook Press. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents thirteen works of art from different countries around the world, giving facts about the life of each individual artist and his unique style.

Book The Romantic Rebellion

Download or read book The Romantic Rebellion written by Kenneth Clark and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Judgment of Paris

    Book Details:
  • Author : Hubert Damisch
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 1996-06-15
  • ISBN : 9780226135106
  • Pages : 408 pages

Download or read book The Judgment of Paris written by Hubert Damisch and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1996-06-15 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on Freudian theories of sexuality and Kant's conception of the beautiful, French art historian Hubert Damisch considers artists as diverse as Raphael, Picasso, Watteau, and Manet to demonstrate that beauty has always been connected to ideas of sexual difference and pleasure. Damisch's tale begins with the judgment of Paris, in which Paris awards Venus the golden apple and thus forever links beauty with desire. The casting of this decision as a mistake—in which desire is rewarded over wisdom and strength—is then linked to theories of the unconscious and psychological drives. In his quest for an exposition of the beautiful in its relation to visual pleasure, Damisch employs what he terms “analytic iconology,” following the revisions and repetitions of the motif of the judgment through art history, philosophy, aesthetics, and psychoanalysis. This translation brings an important figure of the French art historical tradition to Anglo-American audiences.

Book A View Without a Room

Download or read book A View Without a Room written by Edward Morgan Forster and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Study and Criticism of Italian Art

Download or read book The Study and Criticism of Italian Art written by Bernard Berenson and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Copyright in the Renaissance

Download or read book Copyright in the Renaissance written by Christopher L. C. E. Witcombe and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This richly documented study of copyright in sixteenth-century Venice and Rome provides valuable new information about the "privilegio" and the printers, engravers, painters, mapmakers, and others who used it to protect their commercial interests in various types of printed images.

Book Eye and Art in Ancient Greece

Download or read book Eye and Art in Ancient Greece written by Christopher L. C. E. Witcombe and published by Harvey Miller Publishers. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eye and Art in Ancient Greece examines the art of ancient Greece through reconstructions of how the Greeks saw and understood the products of their own visual culture. The material is approached using a newly developed methodology of archaeoaesthetics by which past modes of vision and perception are examined in conjunction with prevailing notions of pleasure and judgement with the purpose of identifying the visual and psychological contexts within which the aesthetics of a culture emerge. Through a wide-ranging examination of ideas found in early written sources, the book examines various key aspects of Greek visual culture, such as continuity and change, nudity, identity, lifelikeness, mimesis, personation and enactment, symmetria, dance, harmony, and the modal representation of emotions, with the aim of comprehending how and why choices were made in the conception and making of artifacts. Special attention is given to factors contributing to the formation of taste and the emergence and transmission over time of concepts of art and beauty and the means by which they were identified and judged. The approach facilitates encounters with the material in ways that give rise to new insights into how the ancient Greeks experienced their own visual culture and how Greek art may be understood by us today.

Book The Sight of Death

    Book Details:
  • Author : T. J. Clark
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2006-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780300117264
  • Pages : 282 pages

Download or read book The Sight of Death written by T. J. Clark and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do we keep returning to certain pictures? What is it we are looking for? How does our understanding of an image change over time? This investigates the nature of visual complexity, the capacity of certain images to sustain repeated attention, and how pictures respond and resist their viewers' wishes.

Book The Vatican Collections

    Book Details:
  • Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
  • Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Release : 1982
  • ISBN : 0870993216
  • Pages : 262 pages

Download or read book The Vatican Collections written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1982 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly three hundred illustrations and a text reveal the entire range of the Vatican's artistic holdings, replete with priceless masterworks from all periods.

Book 18th Century Italian Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Download or read book 18th Century Italian Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1990 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Titian to 1518

    Book Details:
  • Author : Paul Joannides
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2001-01-01
  • ISBN : 0300087217
  • Pages : 372 pages

Download or read book Titian to 1518 written by Paul Joannides and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work that Titian produced during the first decade of his career is beautiful and varied, but it has raised many questions of attribution and chronology. This book - the first thorough and coherent account of this period in Titian's life - reconstructs what he painted, when he painted it and what these paintings mean. Paul Joannides begins by discussing the probable course of Titian's early career and his relationship to the Bellinis. There are individual excurses on Giorgione and on Sebastiano del Piombo whose work has often been confused with his. Joannides then offers new interpretations of some of Titian's paintings, emphasising their poetic and dramatic qualities. Among other topics, he associates for the first time the paintings in Saint Petersburg, Venice and Houston; lays out Titian's part of the Fondaco; connects the privately owned Resurrected Christ with the Fogg Circumcision; integrates the Dresden Venus and the Berlin Portrait into Titian's work; and establishes the dynamism and inventiveness of the great Assunta of 1516-18. Joannides provides detailed arguments in support of both new and familiar attributions, proposes a more closely reasoned and precise chronology

Book Renaissance Self portraiture

    Book Details:
  • Author : Joanna Woods-Marsden
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 1998-01-01
  • ISBN : 0300075960
  • Pages : 310 pages

Download or read book Renaissance Self portraiture written by Joanna Woods-Marsden and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the genesis and early development of the genre of self-portraiture in Italy in the 15th and 16th centuries. The author examines a series of self-portraits in Renaissance Italy, arguing that they represented the aspirations of their creators to change their social standing.

Book The Central Italian Painters of the Renaissance

Download or read book The Central Italian Painters of the Renaissance written by Bernard Berenson and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Piero Di Cosimo

Download or read book Piero Di Cosimo written by Sharon Fermor and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 1993 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book on Piero di Cosimo (1461 1521) widely considered one of the most intriguing figures of the Florentine Renaissance to be written in English for over fifty years. Sharon Fermor presents new solutions to questions the function and iconography that have puzzled commentators hitherto, and examines Piero's approach to pictorial composition and to gesture that contribute to the distinctiveness of his oeuvre. Of crucial importance in this fresh evaluation of Piero's career is the author's explanation of the strategies employed by Vasari for his Life of Piero, written in the mid sixteenth-century. By exposing the misconceptions many still influential today that resulted from Vasari's account, she reveals that even Piero's most unusual paintings on mythological themes are in fact coherent and meaningful compositions, and not the product of an isolated eccentric at odds with the artistic community of his time."