Download or read book Art Patronage Family and Gender in Renaissance Florence written by Maria DePrano and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-22 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines a Renaissance Florentine family's art patronage, even for women, inspired by literature, music, love, loss, and religion.
Download or read book A Generation of Love written by Fedele Cardinale and published by Author House. This book was released on 2012-10-26 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does our personality originate in our mothers’ womb? Are our most ingrained fears set off by their heartbeat as we pick up their apprehensions and fears? This is a journey through Lorenzo Cardona’s teenage years, plagued by a deeply entrenched insecurity; his fear of rejection; of being the eternal unwanted creature. His struggle to build an identity in the harsh reality of small village life, in the heart of the South Italian peninsula; where conformity is the verb. Lorenzo’s fear of rejection a close scrutiny of his recurrent childhood dream of drowning in dark agitated waters, appears to have its origin as far back as his mother’s womb, as the love life of mother and son appear to be intertwined by a common destiny of emotional failure, in the apotheosis of the inescapable truth that there is no absconding from our biological fate, that our umbilical cord is eternal, nourishing us long after being severed. REVIEW A highly entertaining and witty novel - with universal appeal, where the supremacy of the love theme is mitigated by the light hearted tales of local myth, touching premises such as love, jealousy, gossip and senseless rivalry, served on a plate of typical and unique Mediterranean folklore told by the powerful voice of autobiographical narrative. KIRAN GROODOYAL author of Healing Express – Oracle Book
Download or read book Famous Women of Florence written by Edgcumbe Staley and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Women in Italian Renaissance Art written by Paola Tinagli and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1997-06-15 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book which gives a general overview of women as subject-matter in Italian Renaissance painting. It presents a view of the interaction between artist and patron, and also of the function of these paintings in Italian society of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Using letters, poems, and treatises, it examines through the eyes of the contemporary viewer the way women were represented in paintings.
Download or read book Art and Love in Renaissance Italy written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2008 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Many famous artworks of the Italian Renaissance were made to celebrate love, marriage, and family. They were the pinnacles of a tradition, dating from early in the era, of commemorating betrothals, marriages, and the birth of children by commissioning extraordinary objects - maiolica, glassware, jewels, textiles, paintings - that were often also exchanged as gifts. This volume is the first comprehensive survey of artworks arising from Renaissance rituals of love and marriage and makes a major contribution to our understanding of Renaissance art in its broader cultural context. The impressive range of works gathered in these pages extends from birth trays painted in the early fifteenth century to large canvases on mythological themes that Titian painted in the mid-1500s. Each work of art would have been recognized by contemporary viewers for its prescribed function within the private, domestic domain."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Memoirs of the House of Medici written by Nicholaas Ten Hove and published by . This book was released on 1797 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Italian Film in the Shadow of Auschwitz written by Millicent Joy Marcus and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the book, Marcus brings a variety of perspectives to bear on the question of how Italian filmmakers are confronting the Holocaust, and why now given the sparse output of Holocaust films produced in Italy from 1945 to the early 1990s.
Download or read book Lives of Seventy of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects written by Giorgio Vasari and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book From Filippo Lippi to Piero Della Francesca written by Pinacoteca di Brera and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2005 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In doing so, it examines the art of Florence in the 1440s and the work of, among others, Fra Filippo Lippi, Domenico Veneziano, Luca della Robbia, and Michelozzo."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Outlines for the Study of Art written by Harry Huntington Powers and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Renaissance Palace in Florence written by JamesR. Lindow and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a reassessment of the theory of magnificence in light of the related social virtue of splendour. Author James Lindow highlights how magnificence, when applied to private palaces, extended beyond the exterior to include the interior as a series of splendid spaces where virtuous expenditure could and should be displayed. Examining the fifteenth-century Florentine palazzo from a new perspective, Lindow's groundbreaking study considers these buildings comprehensively as complete entities, from the exterior through to the interior. This book highlights the ways in which classical theory and Renaissance practice intersected in quattrocento Florence. Using unpublished inventories, private documents and surviving domestic objects, The Renaissance Palace in Florence offers a more nuanced understanding of the early modern urban palace.
Download or read book An Unlikely Prince written by Niccolo Capponi and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2010-06-29 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this compelling new biography, historian Niccolò Capponi frees Machiavelli (1469–1527) from centuries of misinterpretation. Exploring the Renaissance city of Florence, where Machiavelli lived, Capponi reveals the man behind the legend. A complex portrait of Machiavelli emerges—at once a brilliantly skillful diplomat and a woefully inept liar; a sharp thinker and an impractical dreamer; a hardnosed powerbroker and a risk-taking gambler; a calculating propagandist and an imprudent jokester. Capponi's intimate portrait of Machiavelli reveals his behavior as utterly un-Machiavellian, his vision of the world as limited by his very provincial outlook. In the end, Machiavelli was frustrated by his own political failures and utterly baffled by the success of his book The Prince.
Download or read book Saunterings in Florence written by Elvira Grifi and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Alessandro Filipepi Commonly Called Sandro Botticelli Painter of Florence Alessandro Filipepi commonly called Sandro Botticelli painter of Florence written by Herbert Percy Horne and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Guide to the Italian Medals Exhibited in the King s Library written by British Museum. Department of Coins and Medals and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
