Il mestiere dell'artista: da Giotto a Leonardo
Early modern art features a remarkable fascination with ornament both as decorative device and compositional strategy across artistic media and genres0Interestingly the inventive elegant manifestations of ornament in the art of the period often include layers of disquieting para…
Early modern art features a remarkable fascination with ornament, both as decorative device and compositional strategy, across artistic media and genres. Interestingly, the inventive, elegant manifestations of ornament in the art of the period often include layers of disquieting…
Early modern art features a remarkable fascination with ornament, both as decorative device and compositional strategy, across artistic media and genres.0Interestingly, the inventive, elegant manifestations of ornament in the art of the period often include layers of disquieting…
"Between the birth of Dante in 1265 and the death of Galileo in 1642 something happened which transformed the entire culture of western civilisation. Painting' sculpture and architecture would all visibly change in such a striking fashion that there could be no going back on wha…
Between the birth of Dante in 1265 and the death of Galileo in 1642 something happened which completely revolutionized Western civilization. Painting, sculpture and architecture would all visibly change in a striking fashion. Likewise, the thought and self-conception of humanity…
"Between the birth of Dante in 1265 and the death of Galileo in 1642 something happened which transformed the entire culture of western civilisation. Painting' sculpture and architecture would all visibly change in such a striking fashion that there could be no going back on wha…
"The Perils of Uglytown develops a new concept, structural misanthropology, and traces its operation first in the dialogues of Plato and then in the work of humanists, playwrights, and painters of the Renaissance in Italy, England, and the Netherlands"--
"The Perils of Uglytown develops a new concept, structural misanthropology, and traces its operation first in the dialogues of Plato and then in the work of humanists, playwrights, and painters of the Renaissance in Italy, England, and the Netherlands"--
John Shearman makes the plea for a more engaged reading of art works of the Italian Renaissance, one that will recognize the presuppositions of Renaissance artists about their viewers. His book is the first attempt to construct a history of those Renaissance paintings and sculpt…
Man, myth, and sensual pleasures: Jan Gossart's Renaissance : the complete works
by National Gallery (Great Britain), Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), Ainsworth, Maryan W., Campbell, Lorne, Klein, Peter, Schrader, Stephanie, Alsteens, Stijn, Orenstein, Nadine, Kavaler, Ethan Matt, Gossaert, Jan
"Jan Gossart (ca. 1478-1532) was among the first Netherlandish artists to travel to Rome to make drawings after antique monuments and sculpture and then, upon his return, to introduce biblical and mythological subjects with erotic nude figures into the mainstream of Northern pai…
The history of northern Renaissance art, from the late 14th to the early 16th century, drawing on a rich range of sources to show how northern European art dominated the visual culture of Europe in this formative period - ;This book offers a wide-ranging introduction to the way …