The Samuel H. Kress Study Collection at the University of Missouri
The Samuel H. Kress Study Collection at the University of Missouri

Author: University of Missouri--Columbia. Museum of Art and Archaeology

Publisher: University of Missouri Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 124

ISBN-13: 9780826212412

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Land, Burton Dunbar, Judith Mann, Marjorie Och, and William E. Wallace."--BOOK JACKET. "This catalog will be accessible to both the art historian and the general reader."--Jacket.

The Ashgate Research Companion to Giorgio Vasari
The Ashgate Research Companion to Giorgio Vasari

Author: David J. Cast

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-04-01

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 1317043294

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The Ashgate Research Companion to Giorgio Vasari brings together the world's foremost experts on Vasari as well as up-and-coming scholars to provide, at the 500th anniversary of his birth, a comprehensive assessment of the current state of scholarship on this important-and still controversial-artist and writer. The contributors examine the life and work of Vasari as an artist, architect, courtier, academician, and as a biographer of artists. They also explore his legacy, including an analysis of the reception of his work over the last five centuries. Among the topics specifically addressed here are an assessment of the current controversy as to how much of Vasari's 'Lives' was actually written by Vasari; and explorations of Vasari's relationships with, as well as reports about, contemporaries, including Cellini, Michelangelo and Giotto, among less familiar names. The geographic scope takes in not only Florence, the city traditionally privileged in Italian Renaissance art history, but also less commonly studied geographical venues such as Siena and Venice.

Envisioning Gender in Burgundian Devotional Art, 1350–1530
Envisioning Gender in Burgundian Devotional Art, 1350–1530

Author: Andrea Pearson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-05-15

Total Pages: 358

ISBN-13: 1351939432

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Illuminated here are the relationships between visual culture, faith, and gender in the courtly, monastic, and urban spheres of the early modern Burgundian Netherlands. By examining works by artists such as the Master of Mary of Burgundy, Jan van Eyck, Hans Memling, and Bernard van Orley, author Andrea Pearson identifies and explores pictorial constructions of masculinity and femininity in regard to the expectations, experiences, and practices of devotion. Specifically, she demonstrates that two of the most prominent visual genres of the period, books of hours and devotional portrait diptychs, were manipulated by patrons and spectators of both sexes to challenge and negotiate the boundaries and hierarchies of gender, and that marginalized individuals and groups appropriated the types to resist the authority of others and advance their own. Ultimately, the books and diptychs emerge as critical and often contentious sites for deliberating and transacting gender. By integrating books of hours and devotional portrait diptychs into current interdisciplinary theoretical discourse on gender, power and devotion, the author engages scholars in a range of disciplines: art history, history, religion and literature, as well as women's and men's studies.

Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection
Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection

Author: Colin T. Eisler

Publisher:

Published: 1977

Total Pages: 724

ISBN-13:

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"This is the concluding volume of the catalogue of paintings in the Kress Collection and deals with some 320 works of the German, Early Netherlandish, Flemish and Dutch seventeenth-century, Spanish and French schools. . .Short biographical details on each artist are followed by extensive critical catalogue entries on his works, discussing technique, condition, subject-matter, chronology and other problems. There is also a précis of previous literature on each painting, and the author's views and findings are given at the end." /