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Book Correggio s Frescoes in Parma Cathedral

Download or read book Correggio s Frescoes in Parma Cathedral written by Carolyn Smyth and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Correggio's depiction of the Virgin's Assumption into heaven, painted in the cupola of the Duomo of Parma, is widely viewed as one of the most inventive and influential fresco cycles of the Renaissance. Even so, the very elements that make the work so powerful--its lively iconography and its illusionism--have long been decried by critics for their apparent illegibility and lack of decorum. In the first book-length study of these frescoes in English, Carolyn Smyth counters such negative criticism by taking into account the viewer's in situ experience of the frescoes. In so doing, she offers a new reading that explores the artist's knowing use of figural perspective, the architectural and liturgical context, and the religious significance of the theme. Aided by new photographs of the fresco, taken by Ralph Lieberman, Smyth leads the reader from the door of the cathedral to the apse, in order to examine the lay worshipper's experience from a series of partial views in the nave and the contrasting vistas of the clergy in the presbytery. As each of these separately revealed sequences of the cycle is discussed, new elements appear and are interpreted. The gestures, figural relationships, activities, and attributes visible from each viewpoint convey specific meanings that reveal, too, the most relevant aspect of the Assumption theme for the participant below. Not only the spatial communicativeness of the painting but also the affective warmth of Correggio's style are seen as means to celebrate Mary's redemptive role and its implications for the Christian audience.

Book Correggio and Parmigianino

Download or read book Correggio and Parmigianino written by Elisabetta Fadda and published by Silvana. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The exhibition aims to allow visitors to avail themselves of a selection of masterpieces from some of the world's leading museums to compare and contrast the artistic careers of two of the greatest luminaries of the Italian Renaissance ? Antonio Allegri known as Correggio (1489-1534) and Francesco Mazzola known as Parmigianino (1503-40). The formidable talent of these two artists alone placed the city of Parma in the early 16th century on an equal footing with the peninsula's other great art capitals, Rome, Florence and Venice. 0 0Correggio only travelled to Parma when he was already at the height of his career, in the late 1510s, but he was to remain in the city for the rest of his life. Some twenty of his paintings, covering his entire career, have been selected to underscore the extraordinary emotive force and expressive range that the artist put not only into his religious works but also into his mythological paintings, which were to have such a huge impact on later artists, ranging from the Carracci brothers to Watteau and even to Picasso. 0 0The exhibition 'Correggio e Parmigianino. Arte a Parma nel Ciquecento' ('Correggio and Parmigianino. Art in Parma during the 16th century') hosts such unquestioned masterpieces as the Barrymore Madonna from the National Gallery of Art in Washington, the Portrait of a Lady from the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, the Martyrdom of Four Saints from the Galleria Nazionale in Parma, the Noli Me Tangere from the Museo del Prado in Madrid, the School of Love from the National Gallery in London and the Danaë from Rome's Galleria Borghese. 00Exhibition: Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome, Italy (12.03.-26.06.2016).

Book Delphi Complete Works of Correggio  Illustrated

Download or read book Delphi Complete Works of Correggio Illustrated written by Correggio and published by Delphi Classics. This book was released on 2019-05-12 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The leading painter of the school of Parma, Correggio created some of the most vigorous and sensuous works of the sixteenth century. In his use of dynamic composition, illusionistic perspective and dramatic foreshortening, Correggio prefigured the Baroque art of the seventeenth century and the Rococo art of the eighteenth century. Correggio’s masterful use of chiaroscuro would establish his reputation as one of the leading figures of the High Italian Renaissance. Delphi’s Masters of Art Series presents the world’s first digital e-Art books, allowing readers to explore the works of great artists in comprehensive detail. This volume presents Correggio’s complete works in beautiful detail, with concise introductions, hundreds of high quality images and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * The complete paintings of Antonio da Correggio – over 110 paintings, fully indexed and arranged in chronological and alphabetical order * Includes reproductions of rare works * Features a special ‘Highlights’ section, with concise introductions to the masterpieces, giving valuable contextual information * Enlarged ‘Detail’ images, allowing you to explore Correggio’s celebrated works in detail, as featured in traditional art books * Hundreds of images in colour – highly recommended for viewing on tablets and smart phones or as a valuable reference tool on more conventional eReaders * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the paintings * Easily locate the paintings you wish to view * Includes Correggio's drawings – explore the artist’s varied works * Features two bonus biographies, including Vasari’s seminal work – discover Correggio's Renaissance world Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting e-Art books CONTENTS: The Highlights Madonna and Child with Angels Playing Musical Instruments Madonna with Saint Francis Madonna and Child with the Young Saint John The Holy Family with Saint Jerome Adoration of the Magi Portrait of a Gentlewoman Frescoes for Camera di San Paolo Rest on the Flight into Egypt with Saint Francis The Vision of Saint John Martyrdom of Four Saints Noli me tangere Adoration of the Christ Child Assumption of the Virgin Venus with Mercury and Cupid The Adoration of the Shepherds Danaë Ganymede Abducted by the Eagle Jupiter and Io Allegory of Virtue The Paintings The Complete Paintings Alphabetical List of Paintings The Drawings List of Drawings The Biographies Life of Antonio da Correggio by Giorgio Vasari Correggio by Estelle M. Hurll Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to buy the whole Art series as a Super Set

Book The Work of Correggio

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  • Author : Georg Gronau
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1913
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 182 pages

Download or read book The Work of Correggio written by Georg Gronau and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mother Tongue

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  • Author : Wallis Wilde-Menozzi
  • Publisher : North Point Press
  • Release : 2020-03-17
  • ISBN : 0374720851
  • Pages : 376 pages

Download or read book Mother Tongue written by Wallis Wilde-Menozzi and published by North Point Press. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A probing and poetic examination of language, food, faith, and family attachment in Italian life through the eyes of an American who moved to Parma with her husband and family. In the 1980s, the American writer Wallis Wilde-Menozzi moved permanently with her Italian husband and her daughter to Parma, a sophisticated city in northern Italy, where he became a professor of biology. Her search for rootedness in the city that was to be her home introduced her to complexities in her identity as she migrated into another language and looked for links beyond the joys of Verdi, Correggio, and Parmesan cheese, which visitors have rightly extolled for centuries. The local resistance to change perceived as individualistic led Wilde-Menozzi to explore the pull and challenge of difference and discover the backbone she needed for artistic freedom. In Mother Tongue, Wilde-Menozzi offers stories of far-sighted lives, remarkable Parma men and remarkable women, including the Renaissance abbess Giovanna Piacenza, the fighting Donella Rossi Sanvitale, and her own indefatigable mother-in-law. Framed with a new introduction by the author, and a new foreword by Patricia Hampl, this classic on diversity and tolerance, family, faith, and food in Italy and the United States is at once timeless and timely, a “large, beautiful window into the intelligent, literate, reflective life of Italy” (Shirley Hazzard).

Book Correggio and Parmigianino

Download or read book Correggio and Parmigianino written by Carmen Bambach and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together works from numerous important collections on both sides of the Atlantic, this catalogue presents a broad survey of Correggio and Parmigianino, with all the drawings illustrated in colour.

Book The Court Cities of Northern Italy

Download or read book The Court Cities of Northern Italy written by Charles M. Rosenberg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-21 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Court Cities of Northern Italy examines painting, sculpture, decorative arts, and architecture produced within the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries.

Book Correggio

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  • Author : David Ekserdjian
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 1997-01-01
  • ISBN : 0300072996
  • Pages : 360 pages

Download or read book Correggio written by David Ekserdjian and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beautifully illustrated book is the first full-scale chronological and critical account of the paintings and drawings of Correggio (1489-1534)--a genius of the Italian Renaissance. The author places the artist in the context of 16th-century Italy and his isolation from fellow artists of the period, examines his particular creative process, and sheds new light on Correggio's patrons. 200 color and 50 b&w illustrations.

Book Drawing Relationships in Northern Italian Renaissance Art

Download or read book Drawing Relationships in Northern Italian Renaissance Art written by Giancarla Periti and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vasari's celebration of the art of the central Italian cities of Florence, Rome and Venice, has long left in shadow the art of northern Italy. The economic and historical decline of the region compounded this effect with the dispersal of the treasures of the Farnese to Naples, the Este to Dresden and the Gonzaga to Madrid and Paris. Each chapter in this volume celebrates a stunning work from the region, among them Correggio's famed Camera di San Paolo in Parma, Parmigianino's Camerino in the Rocca Sanvitale near Parma, the studiolo of Alberto Pio at Carpi, and the Tomb of the Ancestors in the Tempio Malatestiano in Rimini. The volume as a whole offers fascinating insights into the tussle between the maniera moderna and the maniera devota in the first half of the sixteenth century, when the unity between the elegance and beauty of art and its religious significance came under debate. Around the year 1550, when Michelangelo's Last Judgement came under attack for impiety and lasciviousness and the reformists called for an art that would invoke in the viewer a devotional response that identified manifestations of the divine with human feelings and emotions. In northern Italy, it was on the foundation laid by Correggio, with his tenderness and ability to evoke the softness of living flesh, that the Carracci brothers built their reform of painting.

Book The Italian Piazza Transformed

Download or read book The Italian Piazza Transformed written by Areli Marina and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Explores the history and architecture of two city squares, constructed by rival political parties, in the Italian city of Parma from 1196 to 1300"--Provided by publisher.

Book Painters  Sculptors  Architects  Engravers  and Their Works

Download or read book Painters Sculptors Architects Engravers and Their Works written by Clara Clement and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-12-31 with total page 677 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.

Book Painters  Sculptors  Architects  Engravers  and Their Works

Download or read book Painters Sculptors Architects Engravers and Their Works written by Clara Erskine Clement Waters and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Painters  Sculptors  Architects  Engravers  and Their Works  A Handbook

Download or read book Painters Sculptors Architects Engravers and Their Works A Handbook written by Clara Erskine Clement Waters and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-06-14 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.

Book Painters  Sculptors  Architects  Engravers  and Their Works  a Handbook

Download or read book Painters Sculptors Architects Engravers and Their Works a Handbook written by Clara Erskine Clement Waters and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Art of Parmigianino

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  • Author : David Franklin
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2003-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780300103571
  • Pages : 312 pages

Download or read book The Art of Parmigianino written by David Franklin and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The beauty and range of the work of the sixteenth-century artist Parmigianino as painter, draughtsman, and printmaker make him one of the most remarkable figures of the Italian Renaissance. He was an artist who seemed to discover his style without any effort, and his art was universally recognized as being graceful, or full of grace. In his day, "grace" was understood to be a spiritual endowment, conferring qualities that could not be taught. It was one of the preconditions of natural genius, so highly valued among Renaissance artists. But nothing as effortlessly elegant as Parmigianino's drawings and paintings could have been achieved without effort. It is through a close study of the drawings, in particular, that one is able to discern the sources of Parmigianino's style and the creative struggles he endured. This illustrated study offers a comprehensive reassessment of his work as a draughtsman. More than eighty works on paper, selected from collections around the world, are discussed in detail. Among Renaissance artists, Parmigianino was perhaps more conscious than any of the potential of the graphic arts to convey, and indeed broadcast, complex ideas. He explored this potential himself, not only by means of his numerous drawings but also through the etchings he produced on his own (effectively introducing this print medium into Italian art) and through the engravings and chiaroscuro woodcuts that were made after his designs. In these media, his influence travelled farther and wider than it could have through his paintings alone. This book coinciding with the quincentenary of the artist's birth in Parma in 1503, accompanies an exhibition presented at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, from October 3, 2003 to January 4, 2004, and at The Frick Collection, New York, from January 27 to April 18, 2004.

Book The Siege of Malta  1565

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  • Author : Francesco Balbi
  • Publisher : Boydell Press
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9781843831402
  • Pages : 226 pages

Download or read book The Siege of Malta 1565 written by Francesco Balbi and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The story of one of the greatest-ever battles, a few men under the Knights of St John against a huge Turkish armada, written as witnessed by a participating soldier"--Provided by publisher.

Book Sketches of the Lives of Correggio and Parmegiano

Download or read book Sketches of the Lives of Correggio and Parmegiano written by William Coxe and published by . This book was released on 1823 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: