Author: S. SellPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Masterpieces of Renaissance and Baroque Printmaking. A Decade of Collecting. Selected From the Co
Author: S. SellUniversity of Virginia Alumni News
Author: Bibliographic Guide to Art and Architecture
Author: New York Public Library. Art and Architecture DivisionPublisher:
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Luxury Arts of the Renaissance
Author: Marina BelozerskayaPublisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 0892367857
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Today we associate the Renaissance with painting, sculpture, and architecture—the “major” arts. Yet contemporaries often held the “minor” arts—gem-studded goldwork, richly embellished armor, splendid tapestries and embroideries, music, and ephemeral multi-media spectacles—in much higher esteem. Isabella d’Este, Marchesa of Mantua, was typical of the Italian nobility: she bequeathed to her children precious stone vases mounted in gold, engraved gems, ivories, and antique bronzes and marbles; her favorite ladies-in-waiting, by contrast, received mere paintings. Renaissance patrons and observers extolled finely wrought luxury artifacts for their exquisite craftsmanship and the symbolic capital of their components; paintings and sculptures in modest materials, although discussed by some literati, were of lesser consequence. This book endeavors to return to the mainstream material long marginalized as a result of historical and ideological biases of the intervening centuries. The author analyzes how luxury arts went from being lofty markers of ascendancy and discernment in the Renaissance to being dismissed as “decorative” or “minor” arts—extravagant trinkets of the rich unworthy of the status of Art. Then, by re-examining the objects themselves and their uses in their day, she shows how sumptuous creations constructed the world and taste of Renaissance women and men.
Forthcoming Books
Author: Rose ArnyPublisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1816
Book Description
Sculpture in the Age of Donatello
Author: Timothy VerdonPublisher: Giles
ISBN: 9781907804564
Category : ARCHITECTURE
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A major survey on both the art and decoration of Sta. Maria del Fiore in Florence, and early Renaissance art.
Baroque
Author: John Rupert MartinPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429981759
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 607
Book Description
This is a nonchronological introduction to Baroque, one of the great periods of European art. John Martin's descriptions of the essential characteristics of the Baroque help one to gain an understanding of the style. His illustrations are informative and he has clearly looked with a fresh eye at the works of art themselves. In addition to the more than 200 illustrations, the volume contains an appendix of translated documents.
Subject Guide to Books in Print
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 3310
Book Description
Renaissance to Rococo
Author: Edgar Peters BowronPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300102054
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
"The museum's distinguished director in the 1930s and 1940s, Chick Austin, acquired notable works by Strozzi, Luca Giordano, Claude, and the first authentic Caravaggio in an American museum. Today the Atheneum can present an exhibition beginning with such renaissance masters as Piero di Cosimo and Sebastiano del Piombo, continuing with the finest examples of Baroque painting, and culminating in a blaze of rococo splendor with Tiepolo, Canaletto, Guardi, Melendez, Greuze, and Goya. This catalogue includes a history of the collection by Eric Zafran and entries on the individual paintings by distinguished scholars."--BOOK JACKET.
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