Download or read book The Delight of Art written by David Cast and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A study based on the text, the Lives of the Artists, by Giorgio Vasari. Discusses how the visual arts in the Renaissance were an occasion for delight or pleasure. Argues that such an attention was encouraged by certain social and intellectual practices"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book The Literary Works of Leonardo Da Vinci Compiled and Edited from the Original Manuscripts written by Jean Paul and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Portogallo written by Regis St. Louis and published by EDT srl. This book was released on 2011-11-16 with total page 613 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Leon Battista Alberti and Nicholas Cusanus written by Charles H. Carman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing a fresh evaluation of Alberti’s text On Painting (1435), along with comparisons to various works of Nicholas Cusanus - particularly his Vision of God (1450) - this study reveals a shared epistemology of vision. And, the author argues, it is one that reflects a more deeply Christian Neoplatonic ideal than is typically accorded Alberti. Whether regarding his purpose in teaching the use of a geometric single point perspective system, or more broadly in rendering forms naturalistically, the emphasis leans toward the ideal of Renaissance art as highly rational. There remains the impression that the principle aim of the painter is to create objective, even illusionistic images. A close reading of Alberti’s text, however, including some adjustments in translation, points rather towards an emphasis on discerning the spiritual in the material. Alberti’s use of the tropes Minerva and Narcissus, for example, indicates the opposing characteristics of wisdom and sense certainty that function dialectically to foster the traditional importance of seeing with the eye of the intellect rather than merely with physical eyes. In this sense these figures also set the context for his, and, as the author explains, Brunelleschi’s earlier invention of this perspective system that posits not so much an objective seeing as an opposition of finite and infinite seeing, which, moreover, approximates Cusanus’s famous notion of a coincidence of opposites. Together with Alberti’s and Cusanus’s ideals of vision, extensive analysis of art works discloses a ubiquitous commitment to stimulating an intellectual perception of divine, essential, and unseen realities that enliven the visible material world.
Download or read book Textual Cultures of Medieval Italy written by William Randolph Robins and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on papers presented at the 41st Conference on Editorial Problems held at the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont., from Nov. 6 - 8th, 2005.
Download or read book The Discovery of Pictorial Composition written by Thomas Puttfarken and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this illuminating book, art historian Thomas Puttfarken examines how pictorial composition and attitudes toward it changed between the early Renaissance and the beginning of the nineteenth century. Before 1600, a paintings overall composition was hardly ever discussed. As far as art theory and criticism were concerned, pictorial composition was a "discovery" of the seventeenth century, the author explains. In the first part of the book, Puttfarken investigates why pictorial composition did not figure in earlier accounts of the art. In Italy artists and patrons focused on large-scale wall paintings or altarpieces and on the presentation of life-size saints or protagonists whose physical proportions and interactions in narratives were considered more important than notions of overall effect or pictorial format. The second part of the book discusses the discovery of composition and Its consequences for both the theory and practice of painting, understood as the production of tableaux, or easel pictures. Puttfarken considers the effects on paintings of size, location, perspective, and relief, the relationship between ground and figures and between image and frame, and the different traditions defining Italian and Northern art. For readers with an interest in the theory and history of European art, this book is full of rich insights and fresh analyses.
Download or read book Jacopo da Firenze s Tractatus Algorismi and Early Italian Abbacus Culture written by Jens Høyrup and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-12-24 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with one of the earliest surviving "abbacus" treatises, one that is by far more orderly than any of the extant predecessors and is also the first to contain a presentation of algebra. The book contains an edition and an English translation of a manuscript from c. 1450. In addition, it features an extensive discussion of the contents of the treatise and its location within early abbacus culture.
Download or read book Music Performance Encounters written by John Koslovsky and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-11-29 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do most musical performers and musical researchers continue to inhabit divergent epistemic spaces? To what extent is the act of musical performance coextensive with the act of doing musical research, and vice versa? At what point in the research process can a performative act transform into a scholarly one, and a scholarly act into a performative one? These, and other related questions, form the central focus of this book, with each chapter offering a fresh perspective on a particular topic in music performance studies: improvisational traditions, historical performance practices, analysis and performance, sports psychology, cross-cultural musical interactions, and institutional challenges. This book is aimed at music researchers, teachers, students, and practising musicians interested in the intersection of academic and performance research; as such, it seeks to bridge the divide between the research of university-trained musicologists, scholars from other fields who focus on music, and the growing community of musical artist-researchers. Material in this book is supported by performance outcomes offered by the contributors on a separate YouTube channel and on the Routledge online portal.
Download or read book Manuale Di Lettura Per Lo Studio Pratico Dei Vari Generi Di Componimenti Letterari written by Alcibiade Vecoli (comp) and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 1028 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Palladio Method written by Thorsten Bürklin and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2024-03-31 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The architect Andrea Palladio was a draughtsman and a designer, a mason and an engineer, an innovator and an image maker. His growing importance from the 16th century onwards was based on his profound expertise in architectural issues that went beyond singular tasks and situations, and beyond his particular moment in history. His way of thinking and solving architectural problems proved invaluable for centuries to come. The contributions to this volume reflect on Palladio's method(s) beyond historism and style, and thus provide insights into design and building in our time.
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Download or read book Io e il Filet di Bosa written by Marina Mureddu and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-04-17 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Un contatto profondo tra una donna curiosa e un'antica tradizione di ricamo della Sardegna: il filet su rete (filet sardo). In questo libro di immagini sono accuratamente riprodotti i disegni e vengono descritte le caratteristiche dei lavori effettuati da un famoso laboratorio di filet di Bosa nella prima metà del '900. Con istruzioni di massima per chi si vuole cimentare.
Download or read book Ottaviano Petrucci written by Stanley Boorman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-11-24 with total page 1294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The innovative work in design, typography, and content of music printer and publisher Ottaviano Petrucci (1446-1539) became the standard by which all following printers measured themselves. He created the defining moment when Italy took the lead in book printing in the Renaissance. This book is a bibliographic study of the output of the Petrucci presses, laying emphasis on the professional career of Petrucci. It includes a detailed study of technique and house-style, examining the market forces that drove Petrucci's publishing decisions, and provides a detailed catalogue of editions and copies. Stanley Boorman has made a study of the output of Petrucci's presses for 25 years. This long-awaited contribution to the field of bibliography will have an audience both in music and in rare book bibliography.
Download or read book Il principe written by Niccolò Machiavelli and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Raphael and the Redefinition of Art in Renaissance Italy written by Robert Williams and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-03 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive re-assessment of Raphael's artistic achievement and the ways in which it transformed the idea of what art is.
