A Critical and Historical Corpus of Florentine Painting
Author : Richard Offner
Publisher :
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,91 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Painters
ISBN :
Public Painting and Visual Culture in Early Republican Florence
Author : George Bent
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 43,97 MB
Release : 2017-01-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 1316810720
Book Description
Street corners, guild halls, government offices, and confraternity centers contained paintings that made the city of Florence a visual jewel at precisely the time of its emergence as an international cultural leader. This book considers the paintings that were made specifically for consideration by lay viewers, as well as the way they could have been interpreted by audiences who approached them with specific perspectives. Their belief in the power of images, their understanding of the persuasiveness of pictures, and their acceptance of the utterly vital role that art could play as a propagator of civic, corporate, and individual identity made lay viewers keenly aware of the paintings in their midst. Those pictures affirmed the piety of the people for whom they were made in an age of social and political upheaval, as the city experimented with an imperfect form of republicanism that often failed to adhere to its declared aspirations.
The Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art and Architecture
Author : Colum Hourihane
Publisher :
Page : 4064 pages
File Size : 34,4 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Architecture, Medieval
ISBN : 0195395360
Book Description
This volume offers unparalleled coverage of all aspects of art and architecture from medieval Western Europe, from the 6th century to the early 16th century. Drawing upon the expansive scholarship in the celebrated 'Grove Dictionary of Art' and adding hundreds of new entries, it offers students, researchers and the general public a reliable, up-to-date, and convenient resource covering this field of major importance in the development of Western history and international art and architecture.
The Authority of the Word
Author : Celeste Brusati
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 773 pages
File Size : 14,40 MB
Release : 2011-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9004215158
Book Description
This book examines scriptural authority and its textual and visual instruments, asking how words and images interacted to represent and by representing to constitute authority, both sacred and secular, in Northern Europe between 1400 and 1700.
A Critical and Historical Corpus of Florentine Painting
Author : Richard Offner
Publisher :
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 45,40 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Painters
ISBN :
Book Description
Painting and Illumination in Early Renaissance Florence, 1300-1450
Author : Laurence B. Kanter
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 39,42 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Illumination of books and manuscripts, Italian
ISBN : 0870997254
Book Description
. By way of introduction to the objects themselves are three essays. The first, by Laurence B. Kanter, presents an overview of Florentine illumination between 1300 and 1450 and thumbnail sketches of the artists featured in this volume. The second essay, by Barbara Drake Boehm, focuses on the types of books illuminators helped to create. As most of them were liturgical, her contribution limns for the modern reader the medieval religious ceremonies in which the manuscripts were utilized. Carl Brandon Strehlke here publishes important new material about Fra Angelico's early years and patrons - the result of the author's recent archival research in Florence.
Florence and Tuscany, a Phaidon Cultural Guide
Author : Joachim Hertlein
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 31,86 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Travel
ISBN :
Book Description
Treasures of a Lost Art
Author : Pia Palladino
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 26,4 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Illumination of books and manuscripts, Italian
ISBN : 1588390306
Book Description
"Treasures of a Lost Art presents 144 leaves, cuttings, and illuminated manuscript fragments from the collection of Robert Lehman (1891-1969), one of the largest and most impressive private holdings of Italian manuscripts assembled after the First World War. Discussed here - with many of them handsomely illustrated in full color - are important examples of the major schools of illumination in southern Italy, Umbria, Tuscany, Emilia, Lombardy, and the Veneto. Previously unpublished, and perhaps even unknown to scholars, are works by some of the foremost Italian painters of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, including a leaf here attributed for the first time to the Sienese master Duccio di Buoninsegna and cuttings by Stefano da Verona and Cosimo Tura. Lesser-known arists, such as Neri da Rimini, Belbello da Pavia, and Girolamo da Cremona, once renowned for their beautifully illuminated volumes, are also discussed in full."--BOOK JACKET.
Apollo
Author : Salomon Reinach
Publisher :
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 22,37 MB
Release : 1923
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
Book Description
Italy, Cyprus, and Artistic Exchange in the Medieval Mediterranean
Author : Anthi Andronikou
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 46,94 MB
Release : 2022-09-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 1009041258
Book Description
In this volume Anthi Andronikou explores the social, cultural, religious and trade encounters between Italy and Cyprus during the late Middle Ages, from ca. 1200 -1400, and situates them within several Mediterranean contexts. Revealing the complex artistic exchange between the two regions for the first time, she probes the rich but neglected cultural interaction through comparison of the intriguing thirteenth-century wall paintings in rock-cut churches of Apulia and Basilicata, the puzzling panels of the Madonna della Madia and the Madonna di Andria, and painted chapels in Cyprus, Lebanon, and Syria. Andronikou also investigates fourteenth-century cross-currents that have not been adequately studied, notably the cult of Saint Aquinas in Cyprus, Crusader propaganda in Santa Maria Novella in Florence, and a unique series of icons crafted by Venetian painters working in Cyprus. Offering new insights into Italian and Byzantine visual cultures, her book contributes to a broader understanding of cultural production and worldviews of the medieval Mediterranean.
