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Author: Sarah McPhee
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2002-01-01
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780300089820
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1638, Gianlorenzo Bernini began the ambitious architectural project of designing and constructing massive twin bell towers atop St. Peter's basilica. But the project failed spectacularly. This volume tells the story of the bell towers, presenting both visual and documentary evidence.
Author: Sarah Collyer McPhee
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 1298
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William Tronzo
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005-08-29
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780521640961
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume presents an overview of St. Peter's history from the late antique period to the twentieth century.
Author: Dorothy Metzger Habel
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 0271055731
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Analyzes the politics and economics of architecture and the building process in seventeenth-century Rome. Explores topics ranging from the financing of construction to the availability of materials and personnel"--Provided by publisher.
Author: Francesco Pellizzi
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2014-03-10
Total Pages: 361
ISBN-13: 0873658655
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRES 63/64 includes "Source and trace" by Christopher S. Wood; "Timelessness, fluidity, and Apollo's libation" by Milette Gaifman; "A liquid history: Blood and animation in late medieval art" by Beate Fricke; "Guercino's 'wet' drawing" by Nicola Suthor; "The readymade metabolized: Fluxus in life" by David Joselit; and other papers.
Author: Erwin Fahlbusch
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 994
ISBN-13: 9789004145955
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContaining more than 300 articles, covering the alphabetical entries P-Sh, this book also includes articles on significant topics ranging from Paul, political theology and the Qur'an, to religious liberty, salvation history and scholasticism.
Author: James Lees-Milne
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Published: 1967
Total Pages: 348
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Loyd Grossman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2021-08-03
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1643137417
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis brilliant vignette of seventeenth-century Rome, its Baroque architecture, and its relationship to the Catholic Church brings to life the friendship between a genius and his patron with an ease of writing that is rare in art history. By 1650, the spiritual and political power of the Catholic Church was shattered. Thanks to the twin blows of the Protestant Reformation and the Thirty Years War, Rome—celebrated both as the Eternal City and Caput Mundi (the head of the world)—had lost its preeminent place in Europe. Then a new Pope, Alexander VII, fired with religious zeal, political guile, and a mania for creating new architecture, determined to restore the prestige of his church by making Rome the key destination for Europe's intellectual, political, and cultural elite. To help him do so, he enlisted the talents of Gianlorenzo Bernini, already celebrated as the most important living artist—no mean feat in the age of Rubens, Rembrandt, and Velazquez.
Author: Irving Lavin
Publisher: Pindar Press
Published: 2012-12-31
Total Pages: 385
ISBN-13: 1915837081
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBernini at Saint Peter's may be a unique case in history: a single artist in change of a grandiose monument in a continuous state of creativity under constantly changing patrons and a variety of projects, for nearly six decades. This book argues that a continuous thread of thought may be discerned underlying and connecting the vicissitudes of this spectacular display. From first to last, Gianlorenzo Bernini conceived of Saint Peter's as a pilgrimage church, a kind of pilgrimage of human life, his own and of the believers who visited the basilica to worship and give testimony. Irving Lavin is professor emeritus in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He is one of the most distinguished and honoured art historians in the United States. Professor Lavin is best known for his series of fundamental publications on the Baroque artist Gianlorenzo Bernini (1598-1680). These include new discoveries and studies on the master's prodigious early life, his architecture and portraiture, his invention of caricature, his depictions of religious faith and political leadership, his work in the theatre, his attitude towards death and the role of the artist in the creation of a modem sense of social responsibility.
Author: J.Nicholas Napoli
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-05
Total Pages: 430
ISBN-13: 1351544780
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Carthusian monks at San Martino began a series of decorative campaigns in the 1580s that continued until 1757, transforming the church of their monastery, the Certosa di San Martino, into a jewel of marble revetment, painting, and sculpture. The aesthetics of the church generate a jarring moral conflict: few religious orders honored the ideals of poverty and simplicity so ardently yet decorated so sumptuously. In this study, Nick Napoli explores the terms of this conflict and of how it sought resolution amidst the social and economic realities and the political and religious culture of early modern Naples. Napoli mines the documentary record of the decorative campaigns at San Martino, revealing the rich testimony it provides relating to both the monks? and the artists? expectations of how practice and payment should transpire. From these documents, the author delivers insight into the ethical and economic foundations of artistic practice in early modern Naples. The first English-language study of a key monument in Naples and the first to situate the complex within the cultural history of the city, The Ethics of Ornament in Early Modern Naples sheds new light on the Neapolitan baroque, industries of art in the age before capitalism, and the relation of art, architecture, and ornament.
