Dialogos Em Roma (1538)
Author : Francisco de Hollanda
Publisher : C. Winter
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 21,19 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Art, Italian
ISBN :
Italian Literature Before 1900 in English Translation
Author : Robin Healey
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 1185 pages
File Size : 25,72 MB
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1442642696
Book Description
"Italian Literature before 1900 in English Translation provides the most complete record possible of texts from the early periods that have been translated into English, and published between 1929 and 2008. It lists works from all genres and subjects, and includes translations wherever they have appeared across the globe. In this annotated bibliography, Robin Healey covers over 5,200 distinct editions of pre-1900 Italian writings. Most entries are accompanied by useful notes providing information on authors, works, translators, and how the translations were received. Among the works by over 1,500 authors represented in this volume are hundreds of editions by Italy's most translated authors - Dante Alighieri, [Niccoláo] Machiavelli, and [Giovanni] Boccaccio - and other hundreds which represent the author's only English translation. A significant number of entries describe works originally published in Latin. Together with Healey's Twentieth-Century Italian Literature in English Translation, this volume makes comprehensive information on translations accessible for schools, libraries, and those interested in comparative literature."--Pub. desc.
Classical Myths in Italian Renaissance Painting
Author : Luba Freedman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 13,4 MB
Release : 2011-06-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 1107001196
Book Description
"The book is about a new development in Italian Renaissance art; its aim is to show how artists and humanists came together to effect this revolution, it is important because this is a long-ignored but crucial aspect of the Italian Renaissance, showing us why the masterpieces we take for granted are the way they are, and thre is no competitor in the field. The book sheds light on some of the world's greatest masterpirces of art, including Botticelli's Venus, Leonardo's Leda, Raphael's Galatea, and Titian's Bacchus and Ariadne"--Provided by publisher.
The Spiritual Language of Art: Medieval Christian Themes in Writings on Art of the Italian Renaissance
Author : Steven F.H. Stowell
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 15,59 MB
Release : 2014-11-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9004283927
Book Description
Analyzing the literature on art from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, The Spiritual Language of Art explores the complex relationship between visual art and spiritual experiences during the Italian Renaissance. Though scholarly research on these writings has predominantly focused on the influence of classical literature, this study reveals that Renaissance authors consistently discussed art using terms, concepts and metaphors derived from spiritual literature. By examining these texts in the light of medieval sources, greater insight is gained on the spiritual nature of the artist’s process and the reception of art. Offering a close re-readings of many important writers (Alberti, Leonardo, Vasari, etc.), this study deepens our understanding of attitudes toward art and spirituality in the Italian Renaissance.
Rethinking the High Renaissance
Author : Jill Burke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 40,82 MB
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 1351551116
Book Description
The perception that the early sixteenth century saw a culmination of the Renaissance classical revival - only to degrade into mannerism shortly after Raphael's death in 1520 - has been extremely tenacious; but many scholars agree that this tidy narrative is deeply problematic. Exploring how we can reconceptualize the High Renaissance in a way that reflects how we research and teach today, this volume complicates and deepens our understanding of artistic change. Focusing on Rome, the paradigmatic centre of the High Renaissance narrative, each essay presents a case study of a particular aspect of the culture of the city in the early sixteenth century, including new analyses of Raphael's stanze, Michelangelo's Sistine Ceiling and the architectural designs of Bramante. The contributors question notions of periodization, reconsider the Renaissance relationship with classical antiquity, and ultimately reconfigure our understanding of 'high Renaissance style'.
The Delight of Art
Author : David Cast
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 17,47 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN : 0271034424
Book Description
"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.
The Artist as Murderer
Author : Norman E. Land
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 11,95 MB
Release : 2022-11-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 1476648603
Book Description
The 4th century BC Greek painter Parrhasius murdered his model--an old man who was his slave--to achieve, so the story goes, a more lifelike depiction of nature. The tale has inspired similar, more elaborate stories about both well known and obscure artists--including Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Rubens. Elements of the tale have appeared in theater, literature and film, as well as in comments by painters, historians, critics and anatomists. Challenging the archetype of the artist as a sympathetic lover of nature, this book examines the artist as cruel and murderous in service of art and ambition, and indirectly addresses a different understanding of the relationship between art and life.
Michelangelo in Print
Author : Bernadine Barnes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 25,3 MB
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 1351558285
Book Description
In seeing printed reproductions as a form of response to Michelangelo's work, Bernadine Barnes focuses on the choices that printmakers and publishers made as they selected which works would be reproduced and how they would be presented to various audiences. Six essays set the reproductions in historical context, and consider the challenges presented by works in various media and with varying degrees of accessibility, while a seventh considers how published verbal descriptions competed with visual reproductions. Rather than concentrating on the intentions of the artist, Barnes treats the prints as important indicators of the use of, and public reaction to, Michelangelo's works. Emphasizing reception and the construction of history, her approach adds to the growing body of scholarship on print culture in the Renaissance. The volume includes a comprehensive checklist organized by the work reproduced.
Creating the "Divine" Artist
Author : Patricia A. Emison
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 20,63 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : 9004137092
Book Description
An investigation of why Michelangelo first, and then many other, Renaissance artists and works were called "divine" by contemporaries, this study ranges from fourteenth-century praise of Dante to a variety of sixteenth-century habits of courtly compliment.
A History of Six Ideas
Author : W. Tatarkiewicz
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 27,54 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9400988052
Book Description
The history of aesthetics, like the histories of other sciences, may be treated in a two-fold manner: as the history of the men who created the field of study, or as the history of the questions that have been raised and resolved in the course of its pursuit. The earlier History of Aesthetics (3 volumes, 1960-68, English-language edition 1970-74) by the author of the present book was a history of men, of writers and artists who in centuries past have spoken up concerning beauty and art, form and crea tivity. The present book returns to the same subject, but treats it in a different way: as the history of aesthetic questions, concepts, theories. The matter of the two books, the previous and the present, is in part the same; but only in part: for the earlier book ended with the 17th century, while the present one brings the subject up to our own times. And from the 18th century to the 20th much happened in aesthetics; it was only in that period that aesthetics achieved recognition as a separate science, received a name of its own, and produced theories that early scholars and artists had never dreamed of.
