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Publisher : BRILL
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 37,56 MB
Release : 2018-12-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9004385630
A reconsideration of the manifold interests of the central and controversial figure Pirro Ligorio, an ambiguous antagonist of the canon embodied by Michelangelo and one of the most fascinating and learned antiquarians in the entourage of Cardinal Alessandro Farnese.
Author : Nicholas Temple
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 33,72 MB
Release : 2020-01-28
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 131727119X
This book examines the creative exchanges between architects, artists and intellectuals, from the Early Renaissance to the beginning of the Enlightenment, in the forging of relationships between architecture and emerging concepts of language in early modern Italy. The study extends across the spectrum of linguistic disputes during this time – among members of the clergy, humanists, philosophers and polymaths – on issues of grammar, rhetoric, philology, etymology and epigraphy, and how these disputes paralleled and informed important developments in architectural thinking and practice. Drawing upon a wealth of primary source material, such as humanist tracts, philosophical works, architectural/antiquarian treatises, epigraphic/philological studies, religious sermons and grammaticae, the book traces key periods when the emerging field of linguistics in early modern Italy impacted on the theory, design and symbolism of buildings.
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Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 24,90 MB
Release :
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780271048154
The first comprehensive account of this Italian architect and antiquarian's life and multifaceted career.
Author : Natasha Constantinidou
Publisher : Brill's Studies in Intellectua
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 38,12 MB
Release : 2019-11-21
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004343856
This volume, edited by Natasha Constantinidou and Han Lamers, investigates modes of receiving and responding to Greeks, Greece, and Greek in early modern Europe (15th-17th centuries). The book's 17 detailed studies illuminate the reception of Greek culture (the classical, Byzantine, and even post-Byzantine traditions), the Greek language (ancient, vernacular, and 'humanist'), as well as the people claiming, or being assigned, Greek identities during this period in different geographical and cultural contexts. 0Discussing subjects as diverse as, for example, Greek studies and the Reformation, artistic interchange between Greek East and Latin West, networks of communication in the Greek diaspora, and the ramifications of Greek antiquarianism, the book aims at encouraging a more concerted debate about the role of Hellenism in early modern Europe that goes beyond disciplinary boundaries, and opening ways towards a more over-arching understanding of this multifaceted cultural phenomenon. 0.
Author : Arthur J. DiFuria
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 884 pages
File Size : 10,49 MB
Release : 2021-12-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 9004462066
This volume examines how and why many early modern pictures operate in an ekphrastic mode.
Author : Anthony Grafton
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 27,54 MB
Release : 1995-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0674254120
Describing an era of exploration during the Renaissance that went far beyond geographic bounds, this book shows how the evidence of the New World shook the foundations of the old, upsetting the authority of the ancient texts that had guided Europeans so far afield. What Anthony Grafton recounts is a war of ideas fought by mariners, scientists, publishers, and rulers over a period of 150 years. In colorful vignettes, published debates, and copious illustrations, we see these men and their contemporaries trying to make sense of their discoveries as they sometimes confirm, sometimes contest, and finally displace traditional notions of the world beyond Europe.
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Publisher : BRILL
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 20,98 MB
Release : 2016-09-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9004316604
Color has recently become the focus of scholarly discussion in many fields, but the categories of art, craft, science and technology, unreflectively defined according to modern disciplines, have not been helpful in understanding color in the early modern period. ‘Color worlds’, consisting of practices, concepts and objects, form the central category of analysis in this volume. The essays examine a rich variety of ‘color worlds’, and their constituent engagements with materials, productions and the ordering and conceptualization of color. Many color worlds appear to have intersected and cross-fertilized at the beginning of the seventeenth century; the essays focus especially on the creation of color languages and boundary objects to communicate across color worlds, or indeed when and why this failed to happen. Contributors include: Tawrin Baker, Barbara H. Berrie, Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis, Karin Leonhard, Andrew Morrall, Doris Oltrogge, Valentina Pugliano, Anna Marie Roos, Romana Sammern (Filzmoser) and Simon Werrett.
Author : Zahra Newby
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 39,93 MB
Release : 2005-10-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0191515574
The enduring importance of Greek athletic training and competition during the period of the Roman Empire has been a neglected subject in past scholarship on the ancient world. This book examines the impact that Greek athletics had on the Roman world, approaching it through the plentiful surviving visual evidence, viewed against textual and epigraphic sources. It shows that the traditional picture of Roman hostility has been much exaggerated. Instead Greek athletics came to exercise a profound influence upon Roman spectacle and bathing culture. In the Greek east of the empire too, athletics continued to thrive, providing Greek cities with a crucial means of asserting their cultural identity while also accommodating Roman imperial power.
Author : Maxwell Boykoff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 21,84 MB
Release : 2019-07-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1107195381
Through this assessment of creative (climate) communications, readers will understand what works where, when, why and under what conditions.
Author : Amanda Bailey
Publisher : Springer
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 29,21 MB
Release : 2017-03-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1137561262
The first book to put contemporary affect theory into conversation with early modern studies, this volume demonstrates how questions of affect illuminate issues of cognition, political agency, historiography, and scientific thought in early modern literature and culture. Engaging various historical and theoretical perspectives, the essays in this volume bring affect to bear on early modern representations of bodies, passions, and social relations by exploring: the role of embodiment in political subjectivity and action; the interactions of human and non-human bodies within ecological systems; and the social and physiological dynamics of theatrical experience. Examining the complexly embodied experiences of leisure, sympathy, staged violence, courtiership, envy, suicide, and many other topics, the contributors open up new ways of understanding how Renaissance writers thought about the capacities, pleasures, and vulnerabilities of the human body.
