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Author: Edith Balas
Publisher: Carnegie-Mellon University Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 242
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn examination of the Mother Goddess in Italian Renaissance art by art historian Edith Balas.
Author: KatherineT. Brown
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-05
Total Pages: 482
ISBN-13: 1351559052
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMater Misericordiae?Mother of Mercy?emerged as one of the most prolific subjects in central Italian art from the late thirteenth through the sixteenth centuries. With iconographic origins in Marian cult relics brought from Palestine to Constantinople in the fifth century, the amalgam of attributes coalesced in Armenian Cilicia then morphed as it spread to Cyprus. An early concept of Mary of Mercy?the Virgin standing with outstretched arms and a wide mantle under which kneel or stand devotees?entered the Italian peninsula at the ports of Bari and Venice during the Crusades, eventually converging in central Italy. The mendicant orders adopted the image as an easily recognizable symbol for mercy and aided in its diffusion. In this study, the author?s primary goals are to explore the iconographic origins of the Madonna della Misericordia as a devotional image by identifying and analyzing key attributes; to consider circumstances for its eventual overlapping function as a secular symbol used by lay confraternities; and to discuss its diaspora throughout the Italian peninsula, Western Europe, and eastward into Russia and Ukraine. With over 100 illustrations, the book presents an array of works of art as examples, including altarpieces, frescoes, oil paintings, manuscript illuminations, metallurgy, glazed terracotta, stained glass, architectural relief sculpture, and processional banners.
Author: Christine Corretti
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2015-05-19
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9004296786
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBenvenuto Cellini’s Perseus and Medusa, one of Renaissance Italy’s most complex sculptures, is the subject of this study, which proposes that the statue’s androgynous appearance is paradoxical. Symbolizing the male ruler overcoming a female adversary, the Perseus legitimizes patriarchal power; but the physical similarity between Cellini’s characters suggests the hero rose through female agency. Dr. Corretti argues that although not a surrogate for powerful Medici women, Cellini’s Medusa may have reminded viewers that Cosimo I de’ Medici’s power stemmed in part from maternal influence. Drawing upon a vast body of art and literature, Dr. Corretti concludes that Cellini and his contemporaries knew the Gorgon as a version of the Earth Mother, whose image is found in art for Medici women.
Author: Katherine T. Brown
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Published: 2017
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ISBN-13: 9781351559041
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: I. Bella
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Published: 2020-04-17
Total Pages: 108
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKEnjoy, relax and get inspired. This coloring book features the most beautiful and famous Italian Renaissance Christian mythology paintings, details with Greek-Roman goddesses, nymphs and portraits of Mother Mary, St. Anne, St. Catherine, Renaissance beauty noblewomen etc., created by Sandro Botticelli, Michelangelo Buonarroti and Leonardo da Vinci. So just color along the grayscale to create your own piece of art and find out more about the meaning of the paintings and interesting facts about their authors. 53 grayscale images pages are single sided images are perfectly centered and fit exquisitely into a frame: 8"x10" pictures are easy to remove by cutting along the line indicated on the page suitable for colored pencils, markers, chalk pastels, gel pens, aquarellable pencils, etc. medium weight acid-free paper great enjoyment for all skill levels produced in USA Add this PERFECT GIFT to bag and make nice memories coloring on your own or with your friends and family.
Author: Efrat El-Hanany
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Published: 2006
Total Pages: 702
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe independent agency granted to the Virgin in this imagery is seen to have unbalanced accepted doctrinal understandings of the limited power of Mary and indeed that of women during the time in question, particularly with reference to a possible overturning of the recognized sexual hierarchy. This undoubtedly contributed to the subsequent banning of the Madonna del Soccorso typology by the Council of Trent. This study therefore presents a comprehensive examination of this unique and intriguing typology by bringing together issues of gender, power, social and religious history and popular superstition and devotion that have not previously been considered holistically within this context. I am hoping that this research may contribute to a revisionist feminist reading of Madonna iconography within the contemporary scholarship of Renaissance imagery.
Author: Maya Corry
Publisher: Philip Wilson Publishers, Limited
Published: 2017-04-30
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781781300534
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMadonnas and Miracles' exposes a hidden world of religious devotion in the Italian Renaissance home. Challenging the idea of the Renaissance as an age of increasing worldliness, it shows how religion remained a powerful force that coloured every aspect of daily life. Across the length and breadth of Italy, houses were filled with decorative objects and works of art with spiritual significance, designed to aid members of the family in their devotional lives. A wide range of religious activities, from routine prayers to extraordinary experiences such as miracles and exorcisms, took place within the home, where they were adapted to key moments in the life-cycle, including birth, marriage, sickness and death. 0This illustrated publication explores a variety of devotional objects and images, from luxury items to everyday household goods. Bringing together jewellery and ceramics, manuscripts and printed books, sculpture and paintings, the book offers a vivid encounter with Renaissance spirituality and domesticity. The result is a new vision of a period in which the material world was charged with sacred power. 0Exhibition: Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK (Spring 2017).
Author: Mary D. Garrard
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 442
ISBN-13: 0520261526
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Garrard, one of a small handful of truly distinguished feminist art historians, presents a detailed and visually convincing account of the relationship between nature and art in all its fraught and gendered cultural meaning from antiquity on. Brunelleschi's Egg constitutes an exemplary feat of interdisciplinary study that requires no specialized theoretical baggage to follow and emulate."--Mieke Bal, author of Of What One Cannot Speak: Doris Salcedo's Political Art "Mary Garrard's discerning eye and deep knowledge of Renaissance art informs this fascinating book. She offers a sophisticated exploration of a rich artistic conversation on the relationship of nature and art, describing the central role of gender in structuring artists' complex and changing attitudes toward nature. Brunelleschi's Egg is so much more than a history of style; it maps the changing mindsets of Renaissance society in the several centuries during which scientific developments gradually seized masculine authority, relegating both art and nature to mastered femininity. This book provides new perspective on Italian Renaissance masterworks; it will be central to future discussion of Renaissance art." --Margaret R. Miles, author of A Complex Delight: The Secularization of the Breast, 1350-1750 "In this sweeping study, the magnum opus of one of feminist art history's founding mothers, Mary Garrard extends the gendered critique of art into the realms of philosophy and science, psychology and myth. Her eloquently prophetic and richly detailed synthesis chronicles western culture's increasing feminization of nature and art, and its parallel masculinization of the human mind (both male and female), as a Renaissance tragedy on an epic scale. The book is a must-read for historians of the early modern period, with a theme also of urgent contemporary concern."--James M. Saslow, author of Pictures and Passions: A History of Homosexuality and Art "A completely new and thoroughly convincing way of looking at the major monuments of the Italian Renaissance. The ideas in Brunelleschi's Egg are so compelling that it is hard to imagine a reader who would not be drawn into the analysis."--Jacqueline Marie Musacchio, author of Art, Marriage, and Family in the Italian Renaissance Palace "Garrard offers an unprecedented perspective on an amazing plethora of seminal works. Written beautifully, Brunelleschi's Egg is nothing but exemplary."--Yael Even, University of Missouri, St. Louis
Author: Malcolm Bull
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Published: 2005
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780713992007
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPerhaps the single most revolutionary aspect of the Renaissance was the re-emergence of the gods and goddesses of antiquity. with scandalous stories from classical mythology, and rulers began to identify with the deities of ancient religion. of western art and produced many of its most magical and subversive works.The first book ever to survey this extraordinary phenomenon in its entirety, THE MIRROR OF THE GODS takes the story from the Renaissance to the Baroque. Bacchus, Jupiter) and recounts the tales about that deity, not as they appear in classical literature but as they were re-created by artists like Botticelli, Titian, Poussin and Rembrandt. Readers will never see art in quite the same way again.
Author: Julia Cartwright
Publisher:
Published: 2016-08-26
Total Pages: 452
ISBN-13: 9781363144037
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