First published in 1961, The English Silver in the Kremlin explores the history of English silverware gifted to the Russian Kremlin during diplomatic exchanges between 1557 and 1663. Featuring 94 pages and 55 illustrative plates, it serves as a valu...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Jul-2025, Kirjastus: Amsterdam University Press, ISBN-13: 9781003693741)
In this series of essays focused on spiritual sensibilities in Renaissance art and its legacies, authors present original ideas about the themes of death, disease, and mystical experience, based primarily on the study of objects and their documented...Loe edasi...
Many books published in the years between 1550 and 1660 had an elaborate engraved title-page. The Comely Frontispiece (1979) selects title-pages which represent theology, philosophy, history, poetry, medicine and explains that these pages were not m...Loe edasi...
This book argues that painter Antonello da Messina (c. 1430-1479) is a formative cross-cultural figure in the practice of art history itself....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 17-Feb-2025, Kirjastus: Amsterdam University Press, ISBN-13: 9781003706199)
This book examines Roman façades decorated with fresco and sgraffito between the 15th and 16th centuries that once enveloped the central rioni of Rome within a web of symbolic social, political, and familial allegiances that transformed a street-sid...Loe edasi...
Women, Fertility and Maternal Art in Renaissance Florence examines maternity-centered art to reveal womens crucial function in saving Florence from a depopulation catastrophe. It appeals to both students and scholars in field of Art History, Renaiss...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Dec-2024, Kirjastus: Amsterdam University Press, ISBN-13: 9781003691563)
Examining the functions of Sixteenth-century Flemish painter Joachim Beuckelaer strange and new subject matter, Goldstein situates his paintings and those of his closest Italian follower, Vincenzo Campi, in the physical space of the dining room....Loe edasi...
The essays in this volume concentrate on festival iconography, the visual and written languages, including ephemeral and permanent structures, costume, drama, inscriptions and published festival books that voiced the social, political and cultural m...Loe edasi...
Louis XIV Outside In introduces current interests in cultural history, integrating aspects of artistic, literary and musical themes. In particular it examines the formulation and use of images of Louis XIV abroad, concentrating on Louis neighbours...Loe edasi...
Through archival documents, pictorial and historical accounts, literature, and correspondence, as well as cultural artefacts such as paintings, jewellery, and garments, this volume examines the impact of Habsburg royal women in the broader historica...Loe edasi...
Firmly grounded in archival research, Sculpture Collections in Early Modern Spain transforms our knowledge regarding the presence of sculpture in the country during the period, which until now has been erroneously characterized as close to non-exist...Loe edasi...
The Ashgate Research Companion to Giorgio Vasari brings together the worlds foremost experts on Vasari as well as up-and-coming scholars to provide, at the 500th anniversary of his birth, a comprehensive assessment of the current state of scholarsh...Loe edasi...
The emblem was big business in early-modern Europe, used extensively not only in printed books and broadsheets, but also to decorate pottery, metalware, furniture, glass and windows and numerous other domestic, devotional and political objects. At i...Loe edasi...
Positing Medici womens patronage as a network of devotional, entrepreneurial and cultural activities that depended on seeing and being seen, Alice Sanger focuses on the intersection of the visual and the sacred at the Medici court of the later sixte...Loe edasi...
This book investigates the role of the architectural façade as an indicator of individual and communal cultural identities, focusing on a residence of a conquistador rather than religious and monarchial structures....Loe edasi...
This study provides new interpretations of the little-known but fascinating Palazzo Trinci frescoes, relating them for the first time both to their physical context, and to their social, political and cultural environment....Loe edasi...
Arboreal Symbolism in European Art, 13001800 probes the significance of trees in religious iconography of Western art. This book will interest scholars in art history, religion, humanities, and interdisciplinary studies....Loe edasi...
The original research in this book analyzes the artistic activity of Santi Gucci (1533-c. 1600), a Florentine sculptor active in Poland in the second half of the sixteenth century, and his workshop....Loe edasi...
This volume explores the images of Alexander the Great during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, how they came about and why they were so popular....Loe edasi...
Exploring how music is used to portray the past in a variety of media, this book probes the relationship between history and fantasy in the imagination of the musical past....Loe edasi...
