Author: H. PhillipsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
A Catalogue of an Important and Valuable Collection of Etchings by Rembrandt, Collected with Great Judgment by Mons. A. P. F. Robert-Dumesnil, of Paris, and by Him Consigned to this Country for Sale; ... Which Will be Sold by Auction
Author: H. PhillipsA Concordance to the Works of Alexander Pope
Author: Edwin AbbottPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Hollstein's German Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts
Author: The Print in Italy, 1550-1620
Author: Michael BuryPublisher: Virago Press
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The Art of Commedia
Author: M. A. KatritzkyPublisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9042017988
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
Italian comedians attracted audiences to performances at every level, from the magnificent Italian, German and French court festival appearances of Orlando di Lasso or Isabella Andreini, to the humble street trestle lazzi of anonymous quacks. The characters they inspired continue to exercise a profound cultural influence, and an understanding of the commedia dell'arte and its visual record is fundamental for scholars of post-1550 European drama, literature, art and music. The 340 plates presented here are considered in the light of the rise and spread of commedia stock types, and especially Harlequin, Zanni and the actresses. Intensively researched in public and private collections in Oxford, Munich, Florence, Venice, Paris and elsewhere, they complement the familiar images of Jacques Callot and the Stockholm Recueil Fossard within a framework of hundreds of significant pictures still virtually unknown in this context. These range from anonymous popular prints to pictures by artists such as Ambrogio Brambilla, Sebastian Vrancx, Jan Bruegel, Louis de Caulery, Marten de Vos, and members of the Valckenborch and Francken clans. This volume, essential for commedia dell'arte specialists, represents an invaluable reference resource for scholars, students, theatre practitioners and artists concerned with commedia-related aspects of visual, dramatic and festival culture, in and beyond Italy.
The Temple of Gnidus
Author: Charles de Secondat MontesquieuPublisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions
ISBN: 9781385750537
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ Bodleian Library (Oxford) T177494 Anonymous. By Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu. Parallel French and English titlepages and text, the French title being 'Le temple de Gnide'. With a final advertisement leaf. Dublin: printed by S. Powell, 1750. 155, [3]p.; 12°
Dreaming of Cockaigne
Author: Herman PleijPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 023152921X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 553
Book Description
Imagine a dreamland where roasted pigs wander about with knives in their backs to make carving easy, where grilled geese fly directly into one's mouth, where cooked fish jump out of the water and land at one's feet. The weather is always mild, the wine flows freely, sex is readily available, and all people enjoy eternal youth. Such is Cockaigne. Portrayed in legend, oral history, and art, this imaginary land became the most pervasive collective dream of medieval times-an earthly paradise that served to counter the suffering and frustration of daily existence and to allay anxieties about an increasingly elusive heavenly paradise. Illustrated with extraordinary artwork from the Middle Ages, Herman Pleij's Dreaming of Cockaigne is a spirited account of this lost paradise and the world that brought it to life. Pleij takes three important texts as his starting points for an inspired of the panorama of ideas, dreams, popular religion, and literary and artistic creation present in the late Middle Ages. What emerges is a well-defined picture of the era, furnished with a wealth of detail from all of Europe, as well as Asia and America. Pleij draws upon his thorough knowledge of medieval European literature, art, history, and folklore to describe the fantasies that fed the tales of Cockaigne and their connections to the central obsessions of medieval life.
Rembrandt, with a Complete List of His Etchings
Author: Rembrandt Harmenszoon van RijnPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Bizarre and Ornamental Alphabets
Author: Carol Belanger GraftonPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 048624105X
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 127
Book Description
This exquisite collection of usable, unusual, royalty-free lettering includes 1,685 bizarre and ornamental letters, including 50 full alphabets in a variety of motifs, including 11th centuy Anglo-Celtic, military, silhouettes, mathematics, and many more.
Rembrandt and His World
Author: Christopher WhitePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Painters
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description