Il riposo
by Borghini, Raffaello, Ellis, Lloyd H.
fromLorenzo da Ponte Italian library series
Raffaello Borghini's Il Riposo (1584) is the most widely known Florentine document on the subject of the Counter-Reformation content of religious paintings. Despite its reputation as an art-historical text, this is the first English-language translation of Il Riposo to be publis…
Il riposo
by Borghini, Raffaello, Ellis, Lloyd H.,, Jr
fromLorenzo da Ponte Italian library
"Raffaello Borghini's Il Riposo (1584) is the most widely known Florentine document on the influence of the Counter-Reformation on religious painting. Through a distillation of the gossip surrounding art and artists that was a feature of the Medici grand ducal court, Borghini pu…
Il riposo
by Borghini, Raffaello, Ellis, Lloyd H.,, Jr
fromLorenzo da Ponte Italian library
Raffaello Borghini's Il Riposo (1584) is the most widely known Florentine document on the subject of the Counter-Reformation content of religious paintings. Despite its reputation as an art-historical text, this is the first English-language translation of Il Riposo to be publis…
It took a mid-twentieth century art show in Milan to rediscover this Italian artist, emblematic of the Baroque period, who lived during the second half of the 16th and first half of the 17th centuries. Michelangelo Merisi was born to a family of modest means in 1571 near Milan. …