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Author: Peter Selz
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 596
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA detailed survey of the development of world architecture, sculpture, and painting from the turn of the century to the 1970's.
Author: Charles Reginald Dodwell
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1993-01-01
Total Pages: 484
ISBN-13: 9780300064933
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBetween the ninth and thirteenth centuries the Western world witnessed a glorious flowering of the pictorial arts. In this lavishly illustrated book, C.R. Dodwell provides a comprehensive guide to all forms of this art--from wall and panel paintings to stained glass windows, mosaics, and embroidery--and sets them against the historical and theological influences of the age. Dodwell describes the rise and development of some of the great styles of the Middle Ages: Carolingian art, which ranged from the splendid illuminations appropriate to an emperor's court to drawings of great delicacy; Anglo-Saxon art, which had a rare vitality and finesse; Ottonian art with its political and spiritual messages; the colorful Mozarabic art of Spain, which had added vigor through its interaction with the barbaric Visigoths; and the art of Italy, influenced by the styles of Byzantium and the West. Dodwell concludes with an examination of the universal Romanesque style of the twelfth century that extended from the Scandinavian countries in the north to Jerusalem in the south. His book--which includes the first exhaustive discussion of the painters and craftsmen of the time, incorporates the latest research, and is filled with new ideas about the relations among the arts, history, and theology of the period--will be an invaluable resource for both art historians and students of the Middle Ages.
Author: Michael Glover
Publisher: David Zwirner Books
Published: 2019-11-26
Total Pages: 97
ISBN-13: 1644230240
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA laugh-out-loud visual history of the strangest piece of men’s clothing ever created: the codpiece. The codpiece was fashioned in the Middle Ages to close a revealing gap between two separate pieces of men’s tights. By the sixteenth century, it had become an upscale must-have accessory. This lighthearted, illustrated examination of its history pulls in writers from Rabelais to Shakespeare and figures from Henry VIII to Alice Cooper. Glover’s witty and entertaining prose reveals how male vanity turned a piece of cloth into a bulging and absurd representation of masculinity itself. The codpiece, painted again and again by masters such as Titian, Holbein, Giorgione, and Bruegel, became a symbol of royalty, debauchery, virility, and religious seriousness—all in one. Centuries of male self-importance and delusion are on display in this highly enjoyably new title. Glover’s book moves from paintings to contemporary culture and back again as it charts the growing popularity of the codpiece and its eventual decline. The first history of its kind, this book is a must-read for art historians, anthropologists, fashion aficionados, and readers looking for a good, long laugh.
Author: William V. Dunning
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 1991-03-01
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780815625087
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNo artist, critic, or art historian disputes the importance of recording how and why our conceptions and methods of depicting pictorial space have changed from ancient to modern times, and yet no previous book has provided a comprehensive history centered around these changing images of pictorial space and the ways in which their evolution reflects ideological changes in society. Dunning traces the two thousand year evolution of the conception and the depiction of space in European (primarily Italian and French) and American painting. Unraveling one illusory image after another into their particular elements, he explains the development of new styles and images in painting as a continuous rearrangement of these basic elements. Following this progression through the Greco-Roman period, the Italian Renaissance, impressionism, and the end of modern art, the author concludes with today's postmodern concentration on linguistic aspects in painting, a change from the former emphasis on space and illusion. Changing Images of Pictorial Space, with over forty illustrations, will be of interest to a wide audience—from art historians, painters, and art educators to general readers who wish to understand more about one of the central organizing principles in all schools and periods of art.
Author: AKS Books Limited
Publisher: Aks Books
Published: 2001-11-01
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9781899861231
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOver 800 images from the golden age of disciplinary illustration, including 23 from Herric, 28 from Jim Black, 36 from Louis Malteste, and 46 from Georges Topfer, plus dozens of drawings and paintings from Hegener, Helga Bode, Ronald, Barb, Sassy, Bottoms, Sardax, and may other artists.
Author: Jenny Haviland
Publisher:
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780861367115
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This book provides the reader with a comprehensive reference of the great works of western painting, architecture and sculpture. The book is divided into ten sections - Prehistoric Art, The Ancient World, The Greek World, The Roman World and The Early Middle Ages, The Late Middle Ages, The Italian Renaissance, The Renaissance outside Italy, Europe and America 1600-1800, Europe and America 1800-1900, and Europe and America since 1900. Also included are biographies of all the artists."--BOOK JACKET.
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Publisher: Aks Books
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 272
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Luca Giuliani
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2013-09-11
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 022602590X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOn museum visits, we pass by beautiful, well-preserved vases from ancient Greece—but how often do we understand what the images on them depict? In Image and Myth, Luca Giuliani tells the stories behind the pictures, exploring how artists of antiquity had to determine which motifs or historical and mythic events to use to tell an underlying story while also keeping in mind the tastes and expectations of paying clients. Covering the range of Greek style and its growth between the early Archaic and Hellenistic periods, Giuliani describes the intellectual, social, and artistic contexts in which the images were created. He reveals that developments in Greek vase painting were driven as much by the times as they were by tradition—the better-known the story, the less leeway the artists had in interpreting it. As literary culture transformed from an oral tradition, in which stories were always in flux, to the stability of written texts, the images produced by artists eventually became nothing more than illustrations of canonical works. At once a work of cultural and art history, Image and Myth builds a new way of understanding the visual culture of ancient Greece.
Author: Mary L. Kwas
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Published: 2011-04-01
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 1557289557
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArkansas's Old State House, arguably the most famous building in the state, was conceived during the territorial period and has served through statehood. A History of Arkansas's Old State House traces the history of the architecture and purposes of the remarkable building. The history begins with Gov. John Pope's ideas for a symbolic state house for Arkansas and continues through the construction years and an expansion in 1885. After years of deterioration, the building was abandoned by the state government, and the Old State House then became a medical school and office building. Kwas traces the subsequent fight for the building's preservation on to its use today as a popular museum of Arkansas history and culture. Brief biographies of secretaries of state, preservationists, caretakers, and others are included, and the book is generously illustrated with early and seldom-seen photographs, drawings, and memorabilia.
Author: Larry Silver
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2012-01-04
Total Pages: 393
ISBN-13: 0812222113
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLarry Silver investigates the origins of new pictorial types and their media as a phenomenon of sixteenth-century Antwerp and interprets several pictorial genres as he charts their evolution and their role in the development and marketing of individual artistic styles.
