Author: Pramit ChaudhuriPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art, Italian
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
'Storie Romane' in Cinquecento Painting of Venice and the Veneto
Author: Pramit ChaudhuriPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art, Italian
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Painting in Cinquecento Venice
Author: David RosandPublisher:
ISBN: 9780300036305
Category : Painting, Italian
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Painting in Renaissance Venice
Author: Peter HumfreyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
This text presents a comprehensive account of painting in Venice, from Bellini and Titian to Tintoretto, from the middle of the 15th century to the end of the 16th century. The art is set against the background of religious, social and political conditions in Renaissance Italy.
British Protestant Missions and the Conversion of Europe, 1600–1900
Author: Simone MaghenzaniPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429516843
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
This book is the first account of British Protestant conversion initiatives directed towards continental Europe between 1600 and 1900. Continental Europe was considered a missionary land—another periphery of the world, whose centre was imperial Britain. British missions to Europe were informed by religious experiments in America, Africa, and Asia, rendering these offensives against Europe a true form of "imaginary colonialism". British Protestant missionaries often understood themselves to be at the forefront of a civilising project directed at Catholics (and sometimes even at other Protestants). Their mission was further reinforced by Britain becoming a land of compassionate refuge for European dissenters and exiles. This book engages with the myth of International Protestantism, questioning its early origins and its narrative of transnational belonging, while also interrogating Britain as an imagined Protestant land of hope and glory. In the history of western Christianities, "converting Europe" had a role that has not been adequately investigated. This is the story of the attempted, and ultimately failed, effort to convert a continent.
Venice: Lion City
Author: Garry WillsPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0671047647
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Now in paperback, Wills's acclaimed book presents a new way of relating the history of the city through its art and, in turn, illuminates the art through the city's history. Illustrated with more than 130 works of art, 30 in full color.
Encyclopedia of Italian Renaissance & Mannerist Art
Author: Jane TurnerPublisher: Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN:
Category : Art, Italian
Languages : en
Pages : 1008
Book Description
The two alphabetically arranged volumes cover all of the major artistic developments in Italy from c.1300 to c.1600, a period that marks the Renaissance of the humanistic spirit of classical antiquity. All three periods of the Renaissance are covered: early, high and late.
Treasures of Venice
Author: Klára GarasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Groundwork
Author: David Young KimPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691238472
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
An illuminating look at a fundamental yet understudied aspect of Italian Renaissance painting The Italian Renaissance picture is renowned for its depiction of the human figure, from the dramatic foreshortening of the body to create depth to the subtle blending of tones and colors to achieve greater naturalism. Yet these techniques rely on a powerful compositional element that often goes overlooked. Groundwork provides the first in-depth examination of the complex relationship between figure and ground in Renaissance painting. “Ground” can refer to the preparation of a work’s surface, the fictive floor or plane, or the background on which figuration occurs. In laying the material foundation, artists perform groundwork, opening the ground as a zone that can precede, penetrate, or fracture the figure. David Young Kim looks at the work of Gentile da Fabriano, Giovanni Bellini, Giovanni Battista Moroni, and Caravaggio, reconstructing each painter’s methods to demonstrate the intricacies involved in laying ground layers whose translucency and polychromy permeate the surface. He charts significant transitions from gold ground painting in the Trecento to the darkened grounds in Baroque tenebrism, and offers close readings of period texts to shed new light on the significance of ground forms such as rock face, wall, and cave. This beautifully illustrated book reconceives the Renaissance picture, revealing the passion and mystery of groundwork and discovering figuration beyond the human figure.
News on the Rialto
Author: Encyclopedia of Italian Renaissance & Mannerist Art: Abacco to Lysippus
Author: Jane TurnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art, Italian
Languages : en
Pages : 1192
Book Description
The two alphabetically arranged volumes cover all of the major artistic developments in Italy from c.1300 to c.1600, a period that marks the Renaissance of the humanistic spirit of classical antiquity. All three periods of the Renaissance are covered: early, high and late.