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Category : Reprints (Publications)
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Bulletin of Reprints
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Category : Reprints (Publications)
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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The Lives of Paintings
Author: Elsje van KesselPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110495775
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
In sixteenth-century Venice, paintings were often treated as living beings. As this book shows, paintings attended dinner parties, healed the sick, made money, and became involved in love affairs. Presenting a range of case studies, Elsje van Kessel offers a detailed examination of the agency paintings and other two-dimensional images could exert. This lifelike agency is not only connected to the seemingly naturalistic style of these images – works by Titian, Giorgione and their contemporaries, illustrated here in over 150 plates. It is also brought in relation to their social-historical contexts, meticulously unravelled through archival research. Grounded in the theoretical literature on the agency of material things, The Lives of Paintings contributes to Venetian studies as well as engaging with wider debates on the attribution of life and presence to images and objects.
Canadiana
Author: A Decade of Italian Women (Vol. 1&2)
Author: Thomas Adolphus TrollopePublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 829
Book Description
This book features the biographical accounts of ten women selected by the author not so much with any intention of bringing together the best, greatest, or most admirable, nor even the most remarkable women Italy has produced, as with a view of securing the greatest amount of variety, in point of social position and character. Each figure of the small gallery was intended to illustrate a distinct phase of Italian social life and civilization: the canonized Saint, that most extraordinary product of the "ages of faith," highly interesting as a social, and perhaps more so still as a psychological phenomenon; the feudal Châtelaine, one of the most remarkable results of the feudal system, and affording a suggestive study of woman in man's place; the high-born and highly-educated Princess of a somewhat less rude day, whose inmost spiritual nature was so profoundly and injuriously modified by her social position; the brilliant literary denizen of "La Bohème", etc. All these were curiously distinct manifestations of womanhood, and if any measure of success has been attained in the endeavor to represent them duly surrounded by the social environment which produced them, while they helped to fashion it, some contribution will have been made to a right understanding of woman's nature, and of the true road towards her more completely satisfactory social development. Volume 1: St. Catherine of Siena (1347-1380) Caterina Sforza (1462-1509) Vittoria Colonna (1490-1547) Volume 2: Tullia D'Aragona (c. 1510 - c. 1570) Olympia Morata (1526-1555) Isabella Andreini (1562-1604) Bianca Cappello (1548-1587) Olympia Pamfili (1594-1656) Elisabetta Sirani (1638-1665) La Corilla (1740-1800)
The Publishers Weekly
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1520
Book Description
Books in Print
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2484
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The Oxford Companion to English Literature
Author: Dinah BirchPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0192806874
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 1184
Book Description
Written by a team of more than 150 contributors working under the direction of Dinah Birch, and ranging in influence from Homer to the Mahabharata, this guide provides the reader with a comprehensive coverage of all aspects of English literature.
Conciatore
Author: Heiden & EnglePublisher:
ISBN: 9780974352954
Category : Glass manufacture
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Bookseller & Stationer and Office Equipment Journal
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Category : Booksellers and bookselling
Languages : en
Pages : 966
Book Description
History and Criticism
Author: H. Schütz WilsonPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780364362426
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Excerpt from History and Criticism: Being Studies on Conciergerie; Bianca Cappello; Wallenstein; Calderon; Carlyle; Geothe; Faust; Taine Very often, probably, has the English visitor to Paris gazed, with longing and with interest, at the round towers, at the conical spires and at the long stone face of the oldest and most memorable prison of Paris; and, while thus gazing, the historical student must have felt a strong desire to visit the romantic and still. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.