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Author: Angiol Maria RicciPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Lettera inedita ... all'eminentissimo cardinal Quirini [on the importance of knowing the Greek language].
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Author: Angiol Maria RicciOpera in Seventeenth-Century Venice
Author: Ellen RosandPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520254260
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
"In this elegantly constructed study of the early decades of public opera, the conflicts and cooperation of poets, composers, managers, designers, and singers—producing the art form that was soon to sweep the world and that has been dominant ever since—are revealed in their first freshness."—Andrew Porter "This will be a standard work on the subject of the rise of Venetian opera for decades. Rosand has provided a decisive contribution to the reshaping of the entire subject. . . . She offers a profoundly new view of baroque opera based on a solid documentary and historical-critical foundation. The treatment of the artistic self-consciousness and professional activities of the librettists, impresarios, singers, and composers is exemplary, as is the examination of their reciprocal relations. This work will have a positive effect not only on studies of 17th-century, but on the history of opera in general."—Lorenzo Bianconi
Music in the Seventeenth Century
Author: Lorenzo BianconiPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521269155
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Examines musical life in the seventeenth century, a period of profound change in the history of music.
Claudio Monteverdi: Orfeo
Author: John WhenhamPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521284776
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
A detailed study of the earliest opera to have gained a foothold in the modern repertoire, the book begins with a historical section in which all the known evidence about the creation and early performances of Orfeo is drawn together and evaluated. The second section of the book includes a detailed history of the rediscovery of the opera; an influential essay by Joseph Kerman is reprinted here, together with a review by Romain Rolland of the first modern performance of Orfeo. The final section includes essays by a conductor and a producer who have staged notable performances of the opera in recent years. They explain their approaches to the work, and offer solutions to some of the problems it poses in performance.
Art, Agency and Living Presence
Author: Caroline van EckPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110380358
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
Throughout history, and all over the world, viewers have treated works of art as if they are living beings: speaking to them, falling in love with them, kissing or beating them. Although over the past 20 years the catalogue of individual cases of such behavior towards art has increased immensely, there are few attempts at formulating a theoretical account of them, or writing the history of how such responses were considered, defined or understood. That is what this book sets out to do: to reconstruct some crucial chapters in the history of thought about such reflections in Western Europe, and to offer some building blocks towards a theoretical account of such responses, drawing on the work of Aby Warburg and Alfred Gell.
Civic Ritual in Renaissance Venice
Author: Edward MuirPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691102009
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Myth of Venice - Myth and ritual - Government by ritual - Social relationships - Scuole - Cittadini - The golden book - Festivals in Renaissance Venice - Festival of the twelve Marys - Procession of Redentore - Feast of Saint Justina.
Music and Culture in Italy from the Middle Ages to the Baroque
Author: Nino PirrottaPublisher:
ISBN: 9780674863613
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Il Marmo spirante
Author: Joris van GastelPublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3050062622
Category : Art
Languages : de
Pages : 332
Book Description
The sculptors of the Roman Baroque, including masters such as Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Alessandro Algardi, and Giuliano Finelli, managed to achieve an unprecedented vivaciousness in their works. And yet, the apparent life of these sculptures is persistently obscured by their materiality. Soft, undulating flesh, dramatic movements, and fluttering draperies are captured in hard and lifeless marble. Thus, sculpture challenges the beholder, is cause for confusion or frustration. Taking the manner in which the beholder’s engagement with sculpture is played out in contemporary poetry and other sources as a point of departure and also introducing ideas from modern-day psychology, this study explores the various ways contemporary viewers dealt with sculpture’s double character. As a result, a new light is shed on some of the unquestionable masterpieces of European art. Die Bildhauer des römischen Barock, darunter Meister wie Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Alessandro Algardi und Giuliano Finelli, erreichten eine beispiellose Lebendigkeit ihrer Werke. Dem augenscheinlichen Leben widerspricht jedoch beharrlich die harte Materialität dieser Skulpturen. Weiches, bewegtes Fleisch, dramatische Bewegungen und flatternde Stoffe sind in hartem, leblosem Marmor gefangen. So fordert die Skulptur den Betrachter heraus und sorgt für Verwirrung oder auch Enttäuschung. Anhand zeitgenössischer Poesie und anderer Quellen,welche die Interaktion zwischen Betrachter und Skulptur reflektieren, untersucht diese Studie, wie Zeitgenossen mit diesem Doppelcharakter der Skulptur umgingen. Dabei werden auch Ansätze der modernen Psychologie miteinbezogen. Das Ergebnis ist ein neuer Zugang zu einigen der höchstgeschätzten Meisterwerke europäischer Kunst.
The Venetian Patriciate
Author: Donald E. QuellerPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Venice & Antiquity
Author: Patricia Fortini BrownPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300067003
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Inscriptions, medals, and travelers' accounts, on more learned humanist and antiquarian writings, and, most importantly, on the art of the period, Brown explores Venice's evolving sense of the past. She begins with the late middle ages, when Venice sought to invent a dignified civic past by means of object, image, and text. Moving on to the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, she discusses the collecting and recording of antiquities and the incorporation of Roman forms.