Author : Paolo Moreno
Publisher : Touring Editore
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 31,8 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9788836519460
Rome's Galleria Borghese, home of the Borghese family, influential in the 17th and 19th centuries, now contains some of the greatest pieces of Western art. The home and museum features work by masters such as Raphael, Coanova, Bernini, and Caravaggio. This guidebook leads the reader room by room, describing each work of art along with its symbolism and cultural references. Also included are hundreds of color reproductions and commentary on each piece.
Author : Carole Paul
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 49,68 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780892365395
In 1775 Prince Marcantonio Borghese IV and the architect Antonio Asprucci embarked upon a decorative renovation of the Villa Borghese. Initially their attention focused on the Casino, the principal building at the villa, which had always been a semi-public museum. By 1625 it housed much of the Borghese's outstanding collection of sculpture. Integrating this statuary with vast baroque ceiling paintings and richly ornamented surfaces, Asprucci created a dazzling and unified homage to the Borghese family, portraying its legendary ancestors as well as its newly born heir. In this book, Carole Paul reads the inventive decorative program as a set of exemplary scenes for the education of the ideal Borghese prince. Her wide-ranging essay also situates the Villa Borghese among the sumptuous palaces and suburban villas of Rome's collectors of antiquities and outlines the renovated Casino's pivotal role in the historic transition from the princely collection to the public museum. Rounding out this volume is a catalog of the Getty Research Institute's fifty-nine drawings for the refurbishing of the Villa Borghese and Alberta Campitelli's discussion of sketches for the short-lived Museo di Gabii, the Villa's other antiquities museum.
Author : Titian
Publisher : Richmond Hill, Ont. : NDE Pub.
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 47,90 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781553210115
Examines the major paintings and themes of Titian, including an analysis of "Sacred and Profane Love", as well as information about his life and cultural surroundings. -- From product description.
Author : Paola Della Pergola
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 27,60 MB
Release : 2021-09-09
Category :
ISBN : 9781013818998
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Loyd Grossman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 21,54 MB
Release : 2021-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1643137417
This brilliant vignette of seventeenth-century Rome, its Baroque architecture, and its relationship to the Catholic Church brings to life the friendship between a genius and his patron with an ease of writing that is rare in art history. By 1650, the spiritual and political power of the Catholic Church was shattered. Thanks to the twin blows of the Protestant Reformation and the Thirty Years War, Rome—celebrated both as the Eternal City and Caput Mundi (the head of the world)—had lost its preeminent place in Europe. Then a new Pope, Alexander VII, fired with religious zeal, political guile, and a mania for creating new architecture, determined to restore the prestige of his church by making Rome the key destination for Europe's intellectual, political, and cultural elite. To help him do so, he enlisted the talents of Gianlorenzo Bernini, already celebrated as the most important living artist—no mean feat in the age of Rubens, Rembrandt, and Velazquez.
Author : United States. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Publisher :
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 26,6 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Government travel
ISBN :
Author : Franco Mormando
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 43,23 MB
Release : 2013-04-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 022605523X
Profiles the whirlwind life of the famed Italian sculptor who is known for his artistic and architectural contributions to the city of Rome.
Author : United States. Forest Service
Publisher :
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 25,58 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Travel
ISBN :
Author : Wendy Heller
Publisher : Western Music in Context: A No
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 28,72 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Music
ISBN :
Companion to Music in the baroque.
Author : Anna Coliva
Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,69 MB
Release : 2019-08-31
Category :
ISBN : 9788833670300
* Picasso's contribution to the revitalization of modern sculpture cannot be underestimated. His work of over fifty years is examined in seven essays and illustrated by more than 50 exhibited works* First published to accompany an exhibition in Rome, at Galleria Borghese that took place in early 2019In 1917 Pablo Picasso traveled to Rome and Naples with Jean Cocteau and Igor Stravinskij. During this trip, for the first time, he could admire directly Hellenistic and Roman sculpture, that of the Renaissance and Baroque eras, but also the Roman frescoes of Pompei. The first exhibition dedicated to Picasso's sculpture to be held in Rome, and its accompanying catalogue, were conceived as a journey through the centuries that chronologically follows the interpretation of forms and different themes - stories and myths, bodies and figures, objects and fragments - in sculpture. The exhibition of masterpieces of the great Spanish master is accompanied by previously unpublished images of his sculpture studios (by Edward Quinn) that narrate the context in which these works were born. The catalogue includes essays that explore the visual and conceptual dialogue between the works of Picasso and works of the past, illustrating and examining over fifty works, some of which have never been exhibited before.
