(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...
(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...
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 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...
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...
This is an analysis of the diverse facets of Alexander the Greats image from the Renaissance era through the Baroque into the nineteenth century....Loe edasi...
This book offers a fresh perspective on Michelangelos well-known masterpiece, the Vatican Pietà, by tracing the shifting meaning of the work of art over time....Loe edasi...
The mid-twentieth century saw a change in paradigms of art history: iconology. The main claim of this novel trend in art history was that renown Renaissance artists (such as Botticelli, Leonardo or Michelangelo) created imaginative syntheses between...Loe edasi...
This book tells the dynamic story of the Medici dynastys struggle with water, to control its flow and manage its representation. Else examines the role of water in the art and festivals of Cosimo I and his heirs, Francesco I and Ferdinando I de Med...Loe edasi...
This study explores the phenomenon of the cults of Raphael and Michelangelo in relation to their death, burial, and posthumous fameor second lifefrom their own times through the nineteenth century....Loe edasi...
This book examines the socio-cultural networks between the courts of Italy and Europe, focusing on the Florentine Medici court, and the international gendered cultural networks developed by Grand Duchess of Tuscany, Vittoria della Rovere....Loe edasi...
This book introduces a new perspective on Claudio Monteverdis Orfeo (1607), a work widely regarded as the first great opera, by exploring the influence of the Mantuan Accademia deglia Invaghiti, the group which hosted the operas performance, and...Loe edasi...
