Botticelli to Titian
Author: Szépművészeti Múzeum (Hungary)
Publisher:
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 443
ISBN-13: 9789637063695
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The Great Masters
Author: Giorgio Vasari
Publisher:
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780883633021
DOWNLOAD EBOOK120 full-color plates and 127 black and white illustrations. An extensive biography about the Italian Renaissance artists.
Vasari's Lives of the Artists
Author: Giorgio Vasari
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2005-07-26
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 0486441806
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne of the principal resources for study of Italian Renaissance art and artists, Vasari's Lives offers colorful, detailed portraits of the era's most representative figures. This single-volume edition spotlights 8 prominent artists.
Titian's 'Venus of Urbino'
Author: Rona Goffen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1997-02-28
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9780521444484
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArguably the quintessential work of the High Renaissance in Venice, Titian's Venus of Urbino also represents one of the major themes of western art: the female nude. But how did Titian intend this work to be received? Is she Venus, as the popular title - a modern invention - implies; or is she merely a courtesan? This book tackles this and other questions in six essays by European and American art historians. Examining the work within the context of Renaissance art theory, as well as the psychology and society of sixteenth-century Italy, and even in relation to Manet's nineteenth-century 'translation' of the work, their observations begin and end with the painting itself, and with appreciation of Titian's great achievement in creating this archetypal image of feminine beauty.
Sandro Botticelli
Author: Julia Cartwright
Publisher:
Published: 1920
Total Pages: 232
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKRenaissance Faces
Author: Lorne Campbell
Publisher: National Gallery London
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This survey traces the development of portrait painting in Northern and Southern Europe during the Renaissance, when the genre first flourished. Both regions developed their own distinct styles and techniques, but each was influenced by the other. Focusing on the relationship between artists of the north and south, renowned specialists analyse the notion of likeness - at that time based not only on accurate reference to posterity, but incorporating all aspects of human life, including propaganda, power, courtship, love, family, ambition and hierarchy. Essays and individual catalogue entries present new research on works by some of the greatest portraitists of the period, including Giovanni Bellini, Sandro Botticelli, Lucas Cranach, Albrecht Durer, Jan van Eyck, Hans Holbein and Titan, all magnificently illustrated."--Jacket.
Visions of Heaven
Author: Martin Kemp
Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Limited
Published: 2021-03
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781848224674
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDante Alighieri (1265-1321) is one of the greatest European writers, whose untrammelled imaginative capacity was matched by a huge base in embracing the science of his era. His texts also paint compelling visual images. In Visions of Heaven, renowned scholar Martin Kemp investigates Dante's supreme vision of divine light and its implications for the visual artists who were the inheritors of Dante's vision. The whole book may be regarded as a new Paragone (comparison), the debate that began in the Renaissance about which of the arts is superior. Dante's ravishing accounts of divine light set painters the severest challenge, which took them centuries to meet. A major theme running through Dante's Divine Comedy, particularly in its third book, the Paradiso, centres on Dante's acts of seeing (conducted according to optical rules with respect to the kind of visual experience that can be accomplished on earth) and the overwhelming of Dante's earthly senses by heavenly light, which does not obey his rules of earthly optics. The repeated blinding of Dante by excessive light sets the tone for artists' portrayal of unseeable brightness.
Metamorphosis
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Publisher: National Gallery Publications
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781857095470
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs part of a unique collaboration between the National Gallery and the Royal Opera House, 14 leading poets were invited to respond to three great masterpieces by the Renaissance painter, Titian.
James McNeill Whistler an Evolution of Painting from the Old Masters: Identified By Two Missing Masterpieces
Author: Angelle M Vinet
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2017-07-12
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 1483471233
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe discovery of this masterpiece Whistler's "Portrait of William Merritt Chase," along with another important Whistler painting, "Harmony in Black, No10," reveals exciting new discoveries on Whistler's artistic methods, from the Old Masters and the artistic truisms of the Renaissance. Documented analysis including x-ray examination, forensics and recognized paintings by Whistler's followers will confirm this portrait and "Harmony in Black, No10," with x-ray revealing two lost paintings. These Whistler paintings connect scholarship and identify paintings worthy of merit and what makes a masterpiece a masterpiece.
Historical Dictionary of Renaissance Art
Author: Lilian H. Zirpolo
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2016-08-19
Total Pages: 633
ISBN-13: 1442264675
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe art of the Renaissance is usually the most familiar to non-specialists, and for good reason. This was the era that produced some of the icons of civilization, including Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa and Last Supper and Michelangelo’s Sistine Ceiling, Pietà, and David. Marked as one of the greatest moments in history, the outburst of creativity of the era resulted in the most influential artistic revolution ever to have taken place. The period produced a substantial number of notable masters, among them Donatello, Filippo Brunelleschi, Masaccio, Sandro Botticelli, Raphael, Titian, and Tintoretto. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Renaissance Art contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 700 cross-referenced entries on artists from Italy, Flanders, the Netherlands, Germany, Spain, and Portugal, historical figures and events that impacted the production of Renaissance art. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the Renaissance art.
