Botticelli Past and Present
Botticelli Past and Present

Author: Ana Debenedetti

Publisher: UCL Press

Published: 2019-01-08

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 178735461X

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The recent exhibitions dedicated to Botticelli around the world show, more than ever, the significant and continued debate about the artist. Botticelli Past and Present engages with this debate. The book comprises four thematic parts, spanning four centuries of Botticelli’s artistic fame and reception from the fifteenth century. Each part comprises a number of essays and includes a short introduction which positions them within the wider scholarly literature on Botticelli. The parts are organised chronologically beginning with discussion of the artist and his working practice in his own time, moving onto the progressive rediscovery of his work from the late eighteenth to the turn of the twentieth century, through to his enduring impact on contemporary art and design. Expertly written by researchers and eminent art historians and richly illustrated throughout, the broad range of essays in this book make a valuable contribution to Botticelli studies.

Melchiorre Cafà
Melchiorre Cafà

Author: Alessandra Anselmi

Publisher: Midsea Books

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13:

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This publication is the first truly collective attempt to study the work of Melchiorre Cafa'. In a variety of studies, it discusses specific and synoptic issues related to his oeuvre. The book also presents a check-list of works by (or attributed to) the artist; this check-list aims at establishing a critical repertory of his oeuvre.

The Library of Great Masters
The Library of Great Masters

Author: Antonio Paolucci

Publisher: Riverside Book Company

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781878351128

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Luca Signorelli started his life as a painter apprenticed to Piero della Francesca, who was to have a strong influence over him, such that, as Vasari says, it was sometimes difficult to distinguish their work. In the early 1480s he worked on the fresco decoration of the side walls of the Sistine Chapel, before coming to Florence, where he learned a great deal from the artists already living there, and also worked for Lorenzo the Magnificent. Luca Signorelli explores the painter's life, work, and influences, incorporating time spent in Florence and Rome, and works produced there. His paintings are presented in full colour, including the ceiling of the Chapel of San Brizio, and his depiction of the Apocalypse in the Orvieto chapel.

Michelangelo
Michelangelo

Author: Miles J. Unger

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2015-07-21

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 1451678789

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Among the immortals--Leonardo, Rembrandt, Picasso--Michelangelo stands alone as a master of painting, sculpture, and architecture. He was not only the greatest artist in an age of giants, but a man who reinvented the practice of art itself. Throughout his long career he clashed with patrons by insisting that he had no master but his own demanding muse and promoting the novel idea that it was the artist, rather than the lord who paid for it, who was creative force behind the work. This is the life of perhaps the most famous, most revolutionary artist in history, told through the stories of six of his magnificent masterpieces.