Dürer and Beyond

Dürer and Beyond

Author: Stijn Alsteens

Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 1588394514

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"This exhibition is the first to offer an extensive overview of the Museum's holdings of early Central European drawings, many of which were acquired in the last two decades. An emphasis on works by later sixteenth- and seventeenth-century artists is balanced by a selection of German drawings from the fifteenth and earlier sixteenth century, of which some of the most exceptional ones--including works by Albrecht Deurer--entered the Museum with The Robert Lehman Collection in 1975."--Publisher's website.


In Search of Utopia

In Search of Utopia

Author: Jan van der Stock

Publisher: Amsterdam University Press

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789462984073

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2016 marks exactly 500 years since the English humanist and statesman Thomas More published in the city Leuven his world-famous book Utopia. Leuven is celebrating this milestone with a major city festival featuring exhibitions, street art, film, music, theatre, dance, literature, lectures and city walks. The cornerstone is the international, art historical exhibition 'In Search of Utopia' at M - Museum Leuven. The festival will officially start on Monday, 26 September 2016 after a festive opening weekend on 24 and 25 September and will end on 17 January 2017. In the book 'In Search of Utopia' the reader is introduced to the world of More and his friends, with the ideals and dreams of the times. The desire of far-away horizons and the cobweb of new sciences that patiently layed upon the reality. Magnificent works of the 15th- and 16th Century artists: Quinten Metsijs, Hans Holbein, Jan Gossaert en Albrecht Dürer are being brought together in this exciting and intriguing story. It shows in an unexceeded way the imagination of an ideal world.


Hans Holbein

Hans Holbein

Author: Oskar Bätschmann

Publisher: Reaktion Books

Published: 2008-03

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9781861890405

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This is the first comprehensive monograph on Hans Holbein the Younger to have appeared in over 40 years. The authors re-examine every aspect of a remarkable career and cast fresh light on many hitherto vexing questions and misunderstandings.


The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal

The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal

Author: The J. Paul Getty Museum

Publisher: Getty Publications

Published: 1991-03-21

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 0892361786

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The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal 18 is a compendium of articles and notes pertaining to the Museum's permanent collections of antiquities, illuminated manuscripts, paintings, and sculpture and works of art. This volume includes a supplement introduced by John Walsh with a fully illustrated checklist of the Getty’s recent acquisitions. Volume 18 includes articles written by Anthony Cutler, David A. Scott, Maya Elston, Ranee Katzenstein, Ariane can Suchtelen, Klaus Fittschen, Peggy Fogelman, and Catherine Hess.


Prague

Prague

Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 1588391612

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This catalogue accompanies the Fall 2005 exhibition that celebrates the flowering of art in medieval Prague, when the city became not only an imperial but also an intellectual and artistic capital of Europe. Scholars trace the distinctly Bohemian art that developed during the reigns of Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV and his sons; the artistic achievements of master craftsmen; and the rebuilding of Prague Castle and of Saint Vitus' Cathedral. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.


Interpreting Cultural Symbols

Interpreting Cultural Symbols

Author: Kathleen M. Ashley

Publisher:

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 9780820312637

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A collection of essays providing an interpretive study of Saint Anne - the apocryphal mother of the Virgin - in the late medieval culture. Interpreting Cultural Symbols examines the different images of Saint Anne from a variety of sources including folklore, drama, ritual, the visual arts, local and political history, hagiographic narrative and theology.


Rome Measured and Imagined

Rome Measured and Imagined

Author: Jessica Maier

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2015-05-07

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 022612763X

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At the turn of the fifteenth century, Rome was a city in transitionparts ancient, medieval, and modern; pagan and Christianand as it emerged from its medieval decline through the return of papal power and the onset of the Renaissance, its portrayals in print transformed as well. Jessica Maier s book explores the history of the Roman city portrait genre during the rise of Renaissance print culture. She illustrates how the maps of this era helped to promote the city, to educate, and to facilitate armchair exploration and what they reveal about how the people of Rome viewed or otherwise imagined their city. She also advances our understanding of early modern cartography, which embodies a delicate, intentional balance between science and art. The text is beautifully illustrated with nearly 100 images of the genre, a dozen of them in color."