Author: Luis Martín-Estudillo
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN: 0826505341
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Spanish artist Francisco de Goya (1746–1828) lived through an era of profound societal change. One of the transformations that he engaged passionately was the unprecedented growth both in the number of readers and in the quantity and diversity of texts available. He documented and questioned this reading revolution in some of his most captivating paintings, prints, and drawings. Goya and the Mystery of Reading explores the critical impact this transition had on the work of an artist who aimed not to copy the world around him, but to see it anew—to read it. Goya's creations offer a sustained reflection on the implications of reading, which he depicted as an ambiguous, often mysterious activity: one which could lead to knowledge or ecstasy, to self-fulfillment or self-destruction, to piety or perdition. At the same time, he used reading to elicit new possibilities of interpretation. This book reveals for the first time the historical, intellectual, and artistic underpinnings of reading as one of the pillars of his art. This book is the recipient of the 2023 Norman L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Prize from Vanderbilt University Press for the best book in the area of art or medicine.
Goya and the Mystery of Reading
Author: Luis Martín-Estudillo
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN: 0826505341
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Spanish artist Francisco de Goya (1746–1828) lived through an era of profound societal change. One of the transformations that he engaged passionately was the unprecedented growth both in the number of readers and in the quantity and diversity of texts available. He documented and questioned this reading revolution in some of his most captivating paintings, prints, and drawings. Goya and the Mystery of Reading explores the critical impact this transition had on the work of an artist who aimed not to copy the world around him, but to see it anew—to read it. Goya's creations offer a sustained reflection on the implications of reading, which he depicted as an ambiguous, often mysterious activity: one which could lead to knowledge or ecstasy, to self-fulfillment or self-destruction, to piety or perdition. At the same time, he used reading to elicit new possibilities of interpretation. This book reveals for the first time the historical, intellectual, and artistic underpinnings of reading as one of the pillars of his art. This book is the recipient of the 2023 Norman L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Prize from Vanderbilt University Press for the best book in the area of art or medicine.
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN: 0826505341
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Spanish artist Francisco de Goya (1746–1828) lived through an era of profound societal change. One of the transformations that he engaged passionately was the unprecedented growth both in the number of readers and in the quantity and diversity of texts available. He documented and questioned this reading revolution in some of his most captivating paintings, prints, and drawings. Goya and the Mystery of Reading explores the critical impact this transition had on the work of an artist who aimed not to copy the world around him, but to see it anew—to read it. Goya's creations offer a sustained reflection on the implications of reading, which he depicted as an ambiguous, often mysterious activity: one which could lead to knowledge or ecstasy, to self-fulfillment or self-destruction, to piety or perdition. At the same time, he used reading to elicit new possibilities of interpretation. This book reveals for the first time the historical, intellectual, and artistic underpinnings of reading as one of the pillars of his art. This book is the recipient of the 2023 Norman L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Prize from Vanderbilt University Press for the best book in the area of art or medicine.
Richard Carew, The Examination of Men's Wits
Author: Rocío G. Sumillera
Publisher: MHRA
ISBN: 1907322817
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Juan Huarte de San Juan (1529-1588) was a Spanish physician and natural philosopher who strove to answer why men possess specific natural abilities that prepare them to excel only in particular fields of knowledge. With his treatise Examen de ingenios para las ciencias (Baeza, 1575), dedicated to King Philip II, Huarte hoped to form a body of naturally accomplished professionals by providing readers with clues to identify their leading wit and the career path associated with it. The book experienced such overwhelming success in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries—it underwent fifty-five editions in six different languages—that it is now considered one of the most influential Spanish scientific books of the early modern period. The present edition modernizes the text of Richard Carew’s The Examination of Men’s Wits (London, 1594), the first rendering into English of Huarte’s work—via a previous Italian translation. In addition, the Introduction contextualizes both the Spanish and the English texts and their authors, discusses the censorship imposed by the Inquisition, the (often deliberate) textual divergences of the English translation, the multiple translations and editions the book underwent in early modern Europe, and its domestic and European reception, with a focus on the English scientific, educational and literary arenas. William Camden, John Marston, Ben Jonson and Sir Francis Bacon are some of the household names acquainted with Huarte’s theories, thanks to Richard Carew’s widely read English version.
Publisher: MHRA
ISBN: 1907322817
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Juan Huarte de San Juan (1529-1588) was a Spanish physician and natural philosopher who strove to answer why men possess specific natural abilities that prepare them to excel only in particular fields of knowledge. With his treatise Examen de ingenios para las ciencias (Baeza, 1575), dedicated to King Philip II, Huarte hoped to form a body of naturally accomplished professionals by providing readers with clues to identify their leading wit and the career path associated with it. The book experienced such overwhelming success in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries—it underwent fifty-five editions in six different languages—that it is now considered one of the most influential Spanish scientific books of the early modern period. The present edition modernizes the text of Richard Carew’s The Examination of Men’s Wits (London, 1594), the first rendering into English of Huarte’s work—via a previous Italian translation. In addition, the Introduction contextualizes both the Spanish and the English texts and their authors, discusses the censorship imposed by the Inquisition, the (often deliberate) textual divergences of the English translation, the multiple translations and editions the book underwent in early modern Europe, and its domestic and European reception, with a focus on the English scientific, educational and literary arenas. William Camden, John Marston, Ben Jonson and Sir Francis Bacon are some of the household names acquainted with Huarte’s theories, thanks to Richard Carew’s widely read English version.
A Companion to the Spanish Scholastics
Author: Harald Ernst Braun
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004296964
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 643
Book Description
A much-needed survey of the entire field of early modern Spanish scholastic thought. Each chapter is grounded in primary sources and the relevant historiography, includes a useful bibliography, and serves as a point of departure for future research.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004296964
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 643
Book Description
A much-needed survey of the entire field of early modern Spanish scholastic thought. Each chapter is grounded in primary sources and the relevant historiography, includes a useful bibliography, and serves as a point of departure for future research.
Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the University of Edinburgh
Author: Edinburgh University Library
Publisher: Edinburgh : T. and A. Constable
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1404
Book Description
Publisher: Edinburgh : T. and A. Constable
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1404
Book Description
Cartas eruditas, y curiosas en que, por la mayor parte se continúa el designio del theatro critico universal
Author: Benito Jeronimo Feijoo
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 536
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 536
Book Description
Hierarchy, Commerce and Fraud in Bourbon Spanish America
Author: Ruth Hill
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN: 9780826514929
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Using El lazarillo de ciegos caminantes (the "Guide for Blind Rovers" by Alonso Carrio de Lavandera, the best known work of the era) as a jumping off point for a sprawling discussion of 18th-century Spanish America, Ruth Hill argues for a richer, more nuanced understanding of the relationship between Spain and its western colonies. Armed with primary sources including literature, maps, census data, letters, and diaries, Hill reveals a rich world of intrigue and artifice, where identity is surprisingly fluid and always in question. More importantly, Hill crafts a complex argument for reassessing our understanding of race and class distinctions at the time, with enormous implications for how we view conceptions of race and class today.
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN: 9780826514929
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Using El lazarillo de ciegos caminantes (the "Guide for Blind Rovers" by Alonso Carrio de Lavandera, the best known work of the era) as a jumping off point for a sprawling discussion of 18th-century Spanish America, Ruth Hill argues for a richer, more nuanced understanding of the relationship between Spain and its western colonies. Armed with primary sources including literature, maps, census data, letters, and diaries, Hill reveals a rich world of intrigue and artifice, where identity is surprisingly fluid and always in question. More importantly, Hill crafts a complex argument for reassessing our understanding of race and class distinctions at the time, with enormous implications for how we view conceptions of race and class today.
Cartas eruditas, y curiosas
Author: Benito Jerónimo Feijoo
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 404
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 404
Book Description
Cartas eruditas y curiosas
Author: Benito Jerónimo Feijoo
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 472
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 472
Book Description
Cartas eruditas, y curiosas, en quē, por la mayor parte, se continúa el designio del Theatro critico Universal, impugnando, ó reduciendo a dudosas, varias opiniones comunes
Author: Benito Jeronimo Feijoo y Montenegro
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 516
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 516
Book Description
Cartas eruditas y curiosas, en que por la mayor parte se continúa el designio del Tatro crítico universal, impugnando o reduciendo a dudosas varias opiniones comunes ...
Author: Benito Jerónimo Feijóo
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 438
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 438
Book Description