A social history of reception, this study focuses on sacred art and Catholicism in Rome during the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The five altarpieces examined here were painted by artists who are admired today - Caravaggio, Guercino, and...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487569020)
Dragons have roamed human consciousness throughout time and across cultures. A dragon is the embodiment of death and destruction in the Apocalypse battles of the Christian Bible and the evil that is vanquished by chivalrous knights in Medieval sagas...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Pennsylvania State University Press, ISBN-13: 9780271099255)
Examines visual and artistic representations of Japanese embassies to Europe between 1573 and 1615. Argues that these images served not only as curiosities but also as tools to promote European elites power, missionary efforts, and global influence...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198746300)
Walter Paters first book, Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1873), is a landmark in Victorian intellectual and cultural history. The first book-length study of the Renaissance by a British writer, it was also described as the gold...Loe edasi...
Marika Spring, Jacob Simon, Rachel Billinge, Bart Cornelis, Jill Dunkerton, Catherine Higgitt, Helen Howard, Larry Keith, Britta New, David Peggie...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Sep-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: National Gallery Company Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781857096781)
An authoritative annual record of scientific research and conservation carried out at the National Gallery, LondonThe National Gallery Technical Bulletin is an annual record of the research carried out at the National Gallery...Loe edasi...
An up-to-date reading of the ways in which the public image of a Venetian prelate came to be defined through his portraitureThis exquisite, richly illustrated catalog documents a dossier exhibition held at Venice’s Museo di...Loe edasi...
A unique, illustrated history of Tudor England told through its art and artefacts. The volatile years of Englands Tudor dynasty (14851603) and the five monarchs who ruled England during this period continue to fascinate and intrigue. Than...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Sep-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Rizzoli International Publications, ISBN-13: 9780789346087)
This is one of the few books to focus on the full range of Cuban architecture, both geographically and stylistically. It is an insiders view, presented by a lauded Cuban architectural historian, made available at a time when the country is on the...Loe edasi...
• Francisco de Holandas Dialogues record Michelangelos participation in art discussions hosted by Vittoria Colonna, revealing his thoughts and world as he painted The Last JudgementThe Dialogues by Portuguese painter and writer Fra...Loe edasi...
• Condivis unparalleled biography presents his friend Michelangelos life, work and struggles in the world of Papal politics and Italian warsMichelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) remains arguably the most powerful artist in the Wester...Loe edasi...
When the term, Grotesques, first arose around the year 1500 in Italy, it referred specifically to ornamental frescoes featuring exceptionally inventive, noteworthy, humorous, or monstrous motifs. These paintings became a preferred decoration in t...Loe edasi...
An important monograph dedicated to one of the most important protagonists of German Renaissance painting, Mathis Grünewald (c. 1480-1528), in the light of significant archival and iconographic novelties....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Sep-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: The University of Michigan Press, ISBN-13: 9780472057627)
In September 1666, a fire sparked in a bakery on Pudding Lane grew until it had destroyed four-fifths of central London. The rebuilding efforts that followed not only launched the careers of some of London’s most famous architects, but also transform...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Sep-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: The University of Michigan Press, ISBN-13: 9780472077625)
In September 1666, a fire sparked in a bakery on Pudding Lane grew until it had destroyed four-fifths of central London. The rebuilding efforts that followed not only launched the careers of some of London’s most famous architects, but also transform...Loe edasi...
Sari: SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Sep-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: State University of New York Press, ISBN-13: 9798855801538)
The first philosophical engagement with the pictorial work of Leonardo, seen as a systematic whole.Presented here is the first philosophical engagement with the pictorial work of Leonardo, seen as a systematic whole. It is not writte...Loe edasi...
A revealing portrait of class relations during the Italian Renaissance explored through the artistic representations of clothing. In late sixteenth-century Rome, artists found inspiration in bustling streets and taverns, depicting so...Loe edasi...
The story of the use of the drill in European sculpture has not yet been written, although it should be fascinating, stated Rudolph Wittkower in 1970 in Cambridge, where he was invited to give a series of lectures on the processes and principles of s...Loe edasi...
Cristina Cruz González, Montserrat A. Báez Hernández, Gauvin Alexander Bailey, Arturo Balandrano Campos, James M. Córdova, Ray Hernández-Durán, Anna M. Nogar, Gabriela Sánchez Reyes, Mark A. White
An exploration of how sacred art evolved in early Mexico, adapting to local cultures and featuring over sixty breathtaking paintings, sculptures, and engravings.This beautifully illustrated book reveals the importance of saints in New...Loe edasi...
Leonardo da Vinci is a key figure of the Italian Renaissance. This updated monograph presents all his paintings and almost 700 drawings the most comprehensive survey to date on the master artist, architect, and inventor. Discover the finest subtlet...Loe edasi...
