The Story of Siena and San Gimignano
Author : Edmund G. Gardner
Publisher :
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 49,59 MB
Release : 1902
Category : Art
ISBN :
Painting and Illumination in Early Renaissance Florence, 1300-1450
Author : Laurence B. Kanter
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 28,86 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.
Choirs of Angels
Author : Barbara Drake Boehm
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 46,42 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Choral music
ISBN : 1588393054
Book Description
This delightful book describes and illustrates the Metropolitan Museum's collection of nearly 40 illuminations from Italian choral manuscripts. Representing the work of Gothic and Renaissance masters both celebrated and anonymous, these precious paintings in miniature---with their compelling narrative, brilliant color, and shining gold---bear witness to exceptional aesthetic accomplishment. The choir books they illuminate are a rich source of information about the development of chant, whose unexpected transcendent tonalities have abiding appeal today. They also serve as primary sources for the study of the lives of religious communities and of the philosophy and faith that infused medieval Europe, offering a glimpse of Italy at the dawn of the Renaissance.
Painting in Florence and Siena After the Black Death
Author : Millard Meiss
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 39,38 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780691003122
Book Description
The first extended study of the painting of Florence and Siena in the later 14th century, this book presents a rich interweaving of considerations of connoisseurship, style, iconography, cultural and social background, and historical events.
Issues in the Conservation of Paintings
Author : David Bomford
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 45,86 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780892367818
Book Description
"This volume will be of interest to teachers and students of conservation and art history, as well as to practicing conservators and museum curators, professionals in related disciplines, and others interested in art history and paintings conservation."--BOOK JACKET.
The Collaboration of Niccolò Tegliacci and Luca di Tommè
Author : Sherwood A. Fehm, Jr.
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 59 pages
File Size : 13,60 MB
Release : 1973-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0892360593
Book Description
In the course of discussing an important fourteenth-century Sienese altarpiece in the Getty collection, Sherwood Fehm considers the possible collaboration of the two Italian painters Niccolò Tegliacci and Luca di Tommè. Through comparison with other works by Niccolò and Luca, including additional examples from the Getty collection, the author endeavors to isolate the hand of each artist and to attribute the overall design of the altarpiece.
The Mirror of Charity
Author : Saint Aelred (of Rievaulx)
Publisher : Cistercian Fathers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,11 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780879077174
Book Description
Aelred of Rievaulx possessed a personal charm which drew friends and disciples naturally to him. His own experience of human weakness in a worldly life at the court of King David of Scotland made him sensitive to the doctrine of charity which he found among cistercian monks. The Mirror of Charity gives us a solid theology of the cistercian life. Aelred's deep knowledge of Scripture, his joy in his brethren, and his love of Christ shine from every page. Because the divine nature is love, as the Bible tells us, directing our love to God-love conforms us to the image of God that has been lost through sin. All love, to Aelred, is a participation in God-love that leads us to union. The Mirror of Charity, written at the beginning of his monastic life, and Spiritual Friendship, written near its end, form a set. Together they demonstrate both the consistency of his teaching and his unswerving love of God in Christ.
Italian Primitives at Yale University
Author : Richard Offner
Publisher :
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 28,87 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Art
ISBN :
Book Description
Studies in Early Tuscan Painting
Author : H. W. van Os
Publisher : Pindar Press
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 11,22 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Art
ISBN :
Book Description
Professor van Os has spent twenty years working on Tuscan painting, and his contributions to the study of the Sienese school are of great importance. This volume brings together for the first time his articles on Tuscan art in the period leading up to the Renaissance in Florence and Siena. They represent one of the most important individual approaches to the subject in recent decades. A number of the studies reprinted here have been specially translated from Dutch for this book. The volume begins with five studies on problems of methodology involved in dealing with the art of this period. Eight further studies follow on the iconography of early Tuscan art. Finally eight studies deal with individual Sienese painters.
Conservation of Paintings
Author : David Bomford
Publisher : National Gallery London
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 14,96 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Painting
ISBN : 9780300073188
Book Description
The National Gallery Pocket Guides series, beautifully illustrated from one of the greatest collections of Old Master paintings in the world, introduces central themes in the history of Western art. This GUIDE discusses the main types of conservation treatment carried out on panel and canvas paintings and the complex issues involved in cleaning and restoration. 69 color & 6 b&w illustrations.
