Download or read book Three Florentine Sacre Rappresentazioni written by Michael O'Connell and published by Mrts. This book was released on 2011 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is the first bilingual edition of a selection of plays from the fifteenth-century tradition of Florentine sacre rappresentazioni. These were plays produced by youth confraternities that elaborated biblical texts or saints' lives in ways that achieve a concentration of psychological realism that is frequently astonishing."--P. [4] of cover.
Download or read book Cultures of Taste Theories of Appetite Eating Romanticism written by T. Morton and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-01-16 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultures of Taste/Theories of Appetite brings two major critical impulses within the field of Romanticism to bear upon an important and growing field of research: appetite and its related discourses of taste and consumption. As consumption, in all its metaphorical variety, comes to displace the body as a theoritical site for challenging the distinction between inside and outside, food itself has attracted attention as a device to interrogate the rhetoric and politics of Romanticism. In brief, the volume initiates a dialogue between the cultural politics of food and eating, and the philosophical implications of ingestion, digestion and excretion.
Download or read book Domenico Ghirlandaio written by Jeanne K. Cadogan and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Domenico Ghirlandaio was one of the most popular artists in fifteenth-century Florence. He worked in a variety of media, including panel paintings, wall murals, mosaic, and manuscript illumination, and his workshop - to which Michelangelo was apprenticed - was highly influential. This beautiful book offers a radically new interpretation of Ghirlandaio’s life and work, viewing him primarily as an artisan active within the craft traditions, guild structure, and workshop organizations of his day. Jean K. Cadogan argues that Ghirlandaio was a pivotal figure in the transformation of the artist from medieval artisan to Renaissance genius. She traces his gradual social elevation, which reflected the increasing respect with which he was treated by his patrons. And she notes that the changes in the way he and other artists were viewed created a milieu that encouraged innovation in technique, style, and content, qualities that were vividly displayed in Ghirlandaio’s work. Cadogan explains how his working method, his pragmatic, artisan approach to technique, the organization and functioning of his workshop, and his relations with his patrons affected the works of art Ghirlandaio produced. Her text is complemented by a catalogue raisonné of Ghirlandaio’s works in all media as well as an appendix of documents useful for scholars.
Download or read book Dosso Dossi written by Peter Humfrey and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1998 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dosso's rich color schemes are akin to those of his fellow North Italian Titian; he learned something about innovative composition from Raphael and about the force of the body from Michelangelo. But his paintings have a very individual appeal. In leafy natural surroundings containing an array of animals and heavenly bodies, events unfold that are often enigmatic, enacted by characters whose interrelationships elude definition.
Download or read book Taste written by Denise Gigante and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: div What does eating have to do with aesthetic taste? While most accounts of aesthetic history avoid the gustatory aspects of taste, this book rewrites standard history to uncover the constitutive and dramatic tension between appetite and aesthetics at the heart of British literary tradition. From Milton through the Romantics, the metaphor of taste serves to mediate aesthetic judgment and consumerism, gusto and snobbery, gastronomes and gluttons, vampires and vegetarians, as well as the philosophy and physiology of food. The author advances a theory of taste based on Milton’s model of the human as consumer (and digester) of food, words, and other commodities—a consumer whose tasteful, subliminal self remains haunted by its own corporeality. Radically rereading Wordsworth’s feeding mind, Lamb’s gastronomical essays, Byron’s cannibals and other deviant diners, and Kantian nausea, Taste resituates Romanticism as a period that naturally saw the rise of the restaurant and the pleasures of the table as a cultural field for the practice of aesthetics. /DIV
Download or read book Creative Chef written by Jasper Udink ten Cate and published by BIS Publishers. This book was released on 2016-07-12 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is full of tips, ideas, and instructions for activities and presentation on and around the dinner table.
Download or read book The Lost Secrets of Fame and Fortune written by Baltasar Gracian Morales and published by Mega Niche Media. This book was released on 2009-10 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is, perhaps, no better time than now to go back to the basics. The world has become so chaotic, so out of control, yet with everything that has changed, the desire for fame and fortune will always remain constant. Whether you want to have more money, uncover your true purpose so you can help others, look and feel better, or attract true love, it's now time for you to claim your share. The basics, so simple yet profound, are exactly what Baltasar Gracian Morales has laid out for us in this book. The Lost Secrets of Fame and Fortune contains over 300 maxims for getting - and keeping - everything you desire. The keeping is just as important as the getting. We have all witnessed too many people achieve their dreams, have it all, then lose everything as quickly as a sandcastle when the tide comes in. This is NOT the Law of Attraction, and this is NOT the Secret. These are real, actionable, practicable secrets of how to get your share of the fame and fortune you deserve. You can get MORE out of your life. Don't wait, the time to start putting this life-changing principles into action is now!
Download or read book The Bernard and Mary Berenson Collection of European Paintings at I Tatti written by Villa I Tatti (Florence, Italy) and published by Officina Libraria. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edited by Carl Brandon Strehlke and Machtelt Brüggen Israëls, The Bernard and Mary Berenson Collection of European Paintings at I Tatti surveys the 149 works assembled by the Berensons for their home in Florence from the late 1890s through the first decades of the twentieth century at the time that they were making their mark on the world as connoisseurs. The catalogue presents a privileged window on the Berensons' intellectual interests through the objects they owned. The entries, written by an international team of art historians, take full advantage of the extensive correspondence from the Berensons' friends, family, and colleagues at I Tatti as well as the couple's diaries and notations on the backs of their vast gathering of photographs. All the entries are lavishly illustrated with full scholarly and technical accountings of the objects. There are also 17 illustrated reconstructions of the original contexts of panel paintings. The catalogue includes essays on the progress of the Berensons' collecting, their love for Siena, the Sienese forger Icilio Federico Joni, the critic Roger Fry, and René Piot's murals at I Tatti, as well as a listing of 94 pictures that were once at I Tatti including donations made to museums in Europe and America. Contents: Preface Lino Pertile; Acknowledgments - Carl Brandon Strehlke and Machtelt Israëls; Note to the Use of the Catalogue; Abbreviations; Glossary of People in the Berenson Circle Mentioned in the Text; Section I: Introductory Essays and Entries 0 to 111; Essay I: "Bernard and Mary Collect: Pictures Come to I Tatti" - Carl Brandon Strehlke; Essay II: "The Berensons and Siena" (working title) - Machtelt Israëls; Essay III: "Passions Intertwined: Art and Photography at I Tatti" - Giovanni Pagliarulo; Entries: Paintings from the 14th to 18th century - Plates 0 to 111; Section II: Fakes; Essay IV: The Berensons and the Sienese Forger Federico Ioni - Gianni Mazzoni; Entries: Fakes - Plates 112 to 116; Section III: Roger Fry; Essay V: "Roger Fry and Bernard Berenson" - Caroline Elam; Entry: Fry - Plate 117; Section IV: René Piot; Essay VI: "A Failure: René Piot and the Berensons" - Claudio Pizzorusso; Entries: Piot - Plates 118 to 131; Section V: The Berensons, Family and Friends; Entries: Portraits - Plates 132 to 138; Entries: Miscellanea - Plates 139 to 148; Appendix: Paintings Formerly Owned by the Berensons - Carl Brandon Strehlke and Machtelt Israëls; Bibliography; Photo Credits; Index.
Download or read book Cooking written by Hervé This and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considering the place of cuisine in Western culture, the authors explore an astonishing variety of topics and elaborate on a revolutionary method for judging the art of cooking. The result is an enthralling, sophisticated, freewheeling dinner party of a book that also makes a powerful case for openness and change in the way people think about food.
Download or read book Auguste Escoffier Memories of My Life written by Auguste Escoffier and published by Van Nostrand Reinhold Company. This book was released on 1997 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Escoffier intersperses the stories of his life with descriptions of dishes, menus, presentations, and original recipes.
Download or read book The Martello Collection written by Miklós Boskovits and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Leonardo Architect written by Carlo Pedretti and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 1985 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The monumental Mole Vanvitelliana in the harbor of the Adriatic City of Ancona is the spectacular setting for a most original Leonardo exhibition. For the first time Leonardo's presence at Urbino and Pesaro as an architect and general engineer in the service of Cesare Borgia in 1502 is presented in a historical and cultural context that includes every aspect of Leonardos art, science and technology, and also his philosophical outlook. The rarely seen materials, presented here in a fully illustrated catalogue, are also discussed in detail by seven scholars of international repute coordinated by the editor.
Download or read book The Passions Of The Human Soul And Their Influence On Society And Civilization written by Charles Fourier and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1851, this book is a treatise on passion and social harmony. Fourier, a French philosopher and social theorist, argued that human passions were inherently good and that they could be harnessed to create a more just and harmonious society. The book is a fascinating glimpse into the mind of a visionary thinker who sought to transform the social order. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Venice and the Renaissance written by Manfredo Tafuri and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1995-03-27 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pursuing the intersections of Venetian culture from the beginning of the sixteenth century through the first decades of the seventeenth, Manfredo Tafuri develops a story crowded with characters and full of surprises. He engages the doges Andrea Gritti and Leonardo Dona; architects and artists Sansovino, Serlio, Palladio, and Scamozzi; and scientists Francesco Barozzi and Galileo. He records the battle that was fought for architecture as metaphor for absolute truth and good government, and contrasts these with the myths that inspired them.
Download or read book Essays on the Powers of the Human Mind written by Thomas Reid and published by . This book was released on 1819 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Italy and the Bourgeoisie written by Stefania Lucamante and published by Associated University Presse. This book was released on 2009 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Italian bourgeoisie appear to be living through a period of self-evaluation. This collection examines what is "essentially Italian" in the development of the bourgeoisie, starting with the role of the individual in post-unification Italy. Members of the bourgeoisie were Italy's ruling class while the country underwent drastic political, economic, and social transformations during major historical eras and events, such as the two World Wars, the Fascist ventennio, the colonial enterprises of the Mussolini regime, the Racial Laws and the Holocaust, and domestic terrorism. The role of the bourgeoisie as indicator, inspiration, and conscience in current pop and high culture is also examined.
Download or read book The Bread and the Rose written by Achille Serrao and published by Legas / Gaetano Cipolla. This book was released on 2005 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
