French Renaissance Comedy 1552-1603
Author : Brian Jeffery
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 16,78 MB
Release : 1969
Category : French drama
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Author : Brian Jeffery
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 16,78 MB
Release : 1969
Category : French drama
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Author : Leo Salingar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 25,80 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521291132
For students of English and European literature, renaissance studies, comparative literature, drama and classics.
Author : Warner Forrest Patterson
Publisher :
Page : 1018 pages
File Size : 29,74 MB
Release : 1935
Category : French language
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Author : Warner Forrest Patterson
Publisher :
Page : 1018 pages
File Size : 28,20 MB
Release : 1935
Category : French language
ISBN :
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Publisher : New York : R.R. Bowker Company
Page : 1728 pages
File Size : 48,59 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Performing Arts
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Author : R.R. Bowker Company. Department of Bibliography
Publisher :
Page : 1614 pages
File Size : 20,22 MB
Release : 1978
Category : United States
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Author :
Publisher :
Page : 1018 pages
File Size : 12,22 MB
Release : 1935
Category : Language and languages
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Author : John Nichol
Publisher :
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 14,85 MB
Release : 1884
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Author : Nichol
Publisher :
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 46,45 MB
Release : 1884
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Author : Marina Belozerskaya
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 33,16 MB
Release : 2005-10-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0892367857
Today we associate the Renaissance with painting, sculpture, and architecture—the “major” arts. Yet contemporaries often held the “minor” arts—gem-studded goldwork, richly embellished armor, splendid tapestries and embroideries, music, and ephemeral multi-media spectacles—in much higher esteem. Isabella d’Este, Marchesa of Mantua, was typical of the Italian nobility: she bequeathed to her children precious stone vases mounted in gold, engraved gems, ivories, and antique bronzes and marbles; her favorite ladies-in-waiting, by contrast, received mere paintings. Renaissance patrons and observers extolled finely wrought luxury artifacts for their exquisite craftsmanship and the symbolic capital of their components; paintings and sculptures in modest materials, although discussed by some literati, were of lesser consequence. This book endeavors to return to the mainstream material long marginalized as a result of historical and ideological biases of the intervening centuries. The author analyzes how luxury arts went from being lofty markers of ascendancy and discernment in the Renaissance to being dismissed as “decorative” or “minor” arts—extravagant trinkets of the rich unworthy of the status of Art. Then, by re-examining the objects themselves and their uses in their day, she shows how sumptuous creations constructed the world and taste of Renaissance women and men.