"Explores the early career of Domenikos Theotokopoulos, 'El Greco, ' in particular his engagement with Italian art around the time of his sojourn in Venice and Rome (1567-76). Examines the form, function, and conception of religious images in the second half of the sixteenth cen…
"Explores the early career of Domenikos Theotokopoulos, 'El Greco, ' in particular his engagement with Italian art around the time of his sojourn in Venice and Rome (1567-76). Examines the form, function, and conception of religious images in the second half of the sixteenth cen…
Spanning the history of literature, art, and architecture--from John Ruskin, Henry James, and Ezra Pound to Manfredo Tafuri, Italo Calvino, Jeanette Winterson, and Robert Coover-- Killing the Moonlight tracks the pressures that modernity has placed on the legacy of romantic Veni…
"The Venice Ghetto was founded in 1516 by the Venetian government as a segregated area of the city in which Jews were compelled to live. The world's first ghetto and the origin of the English word, the term simultaneously works to mark specific places and their histories, and as…
This series focuses on Western Europe in the Early Middle Ages and covers work in the areas of history, language & literature, archeology, art history and religious studies. It brings together current scholarship on early medieval Britain with scholarship on western continental …
"This study reveals the broad material, devotional, and cultural implications of sculpture in Renaissance Venice. Examining a wide range of sources-the era's art-theoretical and devotional literature, guidebooks and travel diaries, and artworks in various media-Lorenzo Buonanno …
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