Author: Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
13:Antonis Mor and His Contemporaries
Author: Histories of the Normal and the Abnormal
Author: Waltraud ErnstPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113420549X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
This fascinating volume tackles the history of the terms 'normal' and 'abnormal'. Originally meaning 'as occurring in nature', normality has taken on significant cultural gravitas and this book recognizes and explores that fact. The essays engage with the concepts of the normal and the abnormal from the perspectives of a variety of academic disciplines – ranging from art history to social history of medicine, literature, and science studies to sociology and cultural anthropology. The contributors use as their conceptual anchors the works of moral and political philosophers such as Canguilhem, Foucault and Hacking, as well as the ideas put forward by sociologists including Durkheim and Illich. With contributions from a range of scholars across differing disciplines, this book will have a broad appeal to students in many areas of history.
The Bible in Print: Notes, indices, bibliography, and illustrations
Author: Bart A. RosierPublisher:
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Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Nuremberg, a Renaissance City, 1500–1618
Author: Jeffrey Chipps SmithPublisher: Univ of TX + ORM
ISBN: 1477306374
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 729
Book Description
This illustrated study of Renaissance Nuremberg explores the city’s social and artistic history through the sixteenth century and beyond. The German city of Nuremberg reached the height of its artistic brilliance during the Renaissance, becoming one of the foremost cultural centers in all of Europe by 1500. Nuremberg was the home of painter Albrecht Dürer, whose creative genius inspired generations of German artists. However, Dürer was only one of a host of extraordinary painters, printmakers, sculptors, and goldsmiths working in the city. Following a map of the city’s principal landmarks, Guy Fitch Lytle provides a compact historical background for Jeffrey Chipps Smith's detailed discussions of the city’s social and artistic significance. Smith examines the religious function of art before and during the Reformation; the early manifestations of humanism in Nuremberg and its influence on the art of Dürer and his contemporaries; and the central role of Dürer’s pedagogical ideas and his workshop in the dissemination of Renaissance artistic concepts. Finally, Smith surveys the principal artists and stylistic trends in Nuremberg from 1500 to the outbreak of the Thirty Years War. Nuremberg: A Renaissance City, 1500-1618 contains biographical sketches of forty-five major artists of the period, plus more than three hundred illustrations depicting the city and its most magnificent artistic treasures.
Sofonisba's Lesson
Author: Michael W. ColePublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691198322
Category : ART
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
"Within a span of seven or eight years in the 1550s, the Italian painter Sofonisba Anguissola produced more self-portraits than any known painter before her had in a lifetime. She was the first known artist in history to take her parents and siblings as primary subject matter, and may have painted the first group portrait featuring only women. Cole examines Sofonisba's paintings as expressions of her relationships and networks, looking at why Sofonisba was able to become a great woman artist: at her father, who decided to allow her to be educated as a painter; at her teacher, Bernardino Campi; and at her relationships with her students, sisters, and patrons, who included the Queen of Spain. Cole demonstrates that Sofonisba made teaching and education a central theme of her painting. The book also provides the first complete catalogue of all of Sofonisba's known works"--
Shakespeare and His Contemporaries
Author: Charles NichollPublisher:
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Shakespeare and his Contemporaries by Charles Nicholl William Shakespeare and his contemporaries helped create not only a new kind of theatre but also a new form of language. In an age of religious and political warfare, they found expression for what it means to be human. Yet although Shakespeare's life is well researched, the lives of his friends are less well known. In this book, Charles Nicholl explains that Shakespeare belonged to a talented group of writers, poets and dramatists, including Ben Jonson, Christopher Marlowe, John Donne and Sir Walter Ralegh. Illustrated throughout with portraits, engravings and printed documents, it demonstrates how Elizabethan society valued literary talent as well as how these writers saw themselves.
Antonis Mor and His Contemporaries
Author: Max J. FriedländerPublisher:
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Category : Painters
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
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Author: Henri WaalPortraits and Other Recent Acquisitions
Author: Lawrence Steigrad Fine ArtsPublisher:
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Category : Art, European
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
Joachim Wtewael and Dutch Mannerism
Author: Anne W. LowenthalPublisher: Purdue University Press
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description