Author : Peter Robb
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 25,85 MB
Release : 2011-07-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1408819899
M is the name of an enigma. In his short and violent life, Michaelangelo Merisi, from Caravaggio, changed art for ever. In the process he laid bare his own sexual longing and the brutal realities of his life with shocking frankness. Like no painter before him and few since, M the man appears in his art. As a book about art and life and how they connect, there has never been anything quite like it.
Author : Peter Robb
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 38,81 MB
Release :
Category : Caravaggio
ISBN :
Author : Peter Robb
Publisher : Bloomsbury Pub Limited
Page : 567 pages
File Size : 49,2 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780747548584
M is the name of an enigma. In his short and violent life, Michelangelo Merisi, from Caravaggio, changed art for ever. In the process he laid bare the brutal realities of his life with shocking frankness. This is a study of the man and his art, and of how life and art interconnect.
Author : Peter Robb
Publisher : Edizioni Mondadori
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 37,31 MB
Release : 2013-12-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 8852045236
Peter Robb fa rivivere la figura di Michelangelo Merisi, passato alla storia come Caravaggio, e rifiuta le versioni classiche sulla sua morte, inserendola in un inquietante contesto di vendetta per motivi sessuali rivelando il nome di chi, con ogni probabilità, fu il mandante del suo assassinio.
Author : Russ Ramsey
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 23,59 MB
Release : 2022-03-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0310129737
How do art and faith intersect? How does art help us see our own lives more clearly? What can we understand about God and humanity by looking at the lives of artists? Striving for beauty, art also reveals what is broken. It presents us with the tremendous struggles and longings common to the human experience. And it says a lot about our Creator too. Great works of art can speak to the soul in a unique way. Rembrandt Is in the Wind is an invitation to discover some of the world's most celebrated artists and works and how each of them illuminates something about God, people, and the purpose of life. Part art history, part biblical study, part philosophy, and part analysis of the human experience, this book is nonetheless all story. From Michelangelo to Vincent van Gogh to Edward Hopper, the lives of the artists in this book illustrate the struggle of living in this world and point to the beauty of the redemption available to us in Christ. Each story is different. Some conclude with resounding triumph while others end in struggle. But all of them raise important questions about humanity's hunger and capacity for glory, and all of them teach us to love and see beauty. "The artists featured in these pages—artists who devoted their lives and work to what is good, true, and beautiful—remind us that we can, and should, do the same." —Karen Swallow Prior, author of On Reading Well
Author : Andrew Edwards
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 19,89 MB
Release : 2014-03-27
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0857734873
Rising up from the heart of the Mediterranean, Sicily has a rich and ancient history spanning over 2,000 years. A bounty prized by invaders from the Greeks, Romans and Vandals to the Byzantines, Arabs and Normans, Sicily's violently beautiful landscapes are haunted by a vibrant mix of cultures and her soil has always been fertile ground for the literary and artistic imagination. This compelling guide uncovers the island's multi-faceted personality through those literary figures who have managed to get under her skin - from Pindar, Cicero and Aeschylus to Shakespeare and Cervantes; DH Lawrence, Coleridge and Oscar Wilde to Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Ezra Pound and Lawrence Durrell; as well as local writers who have defined the modern Italian novel - Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa and Leonardo Sciascia. Through their words and lives we witness the beauty, pain and power of the Sicilian cultural landscape and discover how the potent mix of influences on the island's society has been preserved forever in literature.
Author : Margaret Crosland
Publisher : Peter Owen Publishers
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 18,32 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Art
ISBN :
Giorgio de Chirico (1888-1978) was best known for his metaphysical paintings, but he also wrote poems, articles about art, an autobiography, and the first surrealist novel. Even more mysterious than the paintings, is the man himself: secretive, self-centered and contradictory, supercritical, ironic, and humorless, yet creative in ways he probably hardly understood. He did not share the Surrealists' overt preoccupation with the erotic, but was obsessed with memories of ancient mythology, 19th century German philosophy, metaphysics, and the secrets of creativity. With these obsessions, he tried, unconsciously, to solve the problems of his own sexuality which he concealed within. A loner, who never formally aligned himself with the Surrealists, or any other artistic movement, he produced several thousand works of art, with many changes of style. These were praised by Guillaume Apollinaire, Andre Breton, Max Ernst, and paul Eluard. He has remained one of the most baffling and memorable of those associated with the Surrealists.
Author : Dr Lorenzo Pericolo
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 31,13 MB
Release : 2014-04-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 1409406849
As this collection makes clear, the paths to grasping the complexity of Caravaggio’s art are multiple and variable. Offering new or recently updated interpretations of the works of Caravaggio and the Caravaggisti, this book deals with all the major aspects of Caravaggio’s paintings: technique, creative process, religious context, innovations in pictorial genre and narrative, market strategies, biography, patronage, reception and new hermeneutical trends.
Author : Peter Robb
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 38,26 MB
Release : 2012-07-05
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1408822326
Naples is always a shock, flaunting beauty and squalor like nowhere else. It is the only city in Europe whose ancient past still lives in its irrepressible people. In 1503, Naples was the Mediterranean capital of Spain's world empire and the base for the Christian struggle with Islam. It was a European metropolis matched only by Paris and Istanbul, an extraordinary concentration of military power, lavish consumption, poverty and desperation. It was to Naples in 1606 that Michelangelo Merisi fled after a fatal street fight, and there released a great age in European art - until everything erupted in a revolt by the dispossessed, and the people of an occupied city brought Europe into the modern world. Ranging across nearly three thousand years of Neapolitan life and art, from the first Greek landings in Italy to the author's own, less auspicious, arrival thirty-something years ago, Street Fight in Naples brings vividly to life the tumultuous and, at times, tragic history of Naples.
Author : Michael Peppiatt
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 34,73 MB
Release : 2009-09-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1620876701
Francis Bacon was one of the most powerful and enigmatic creative geniuses of the twentieth century. Immediately recognizable, his paintings continue to challenge interpretations and provoke controversy. Bacon was also an extraordinary personality. Generous but cruel, forthright yet manipulative, ebullient but in despair: He was the sum of his contradictions. This life, lived at extremes, was filled with achievement and triumph, misfortune and personal tragedy. In his revised and updated edition of an already brilliant biography, Michael Peppiatt has drawn on fresh material that has become available in the sixteen years since the artist’s death. Most important, he includes confidential material given to him by Bacon but omitted from the first edition. Francis Bacon derives from the hundreds of occasions Bacon and Peppiatt sat conversing, often late into the night, over many years, and particularly when Bacon was working in Paris. We are also given insight into Bacon’s intimate relationships, his artistic convictions and views on life, as well as his often acerbic comments on his contemporaries.
