Botticelli to Titian
Author: Szépművészeti Múzeum (Hungary)
Publisher:
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 443
ISBN-13: 9789637063695
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The Great Masters
Author: Giorgio Vasari
Publisher:
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780883633021
DOWNLOAD EBOOK120 full-color plates and 127 black and white illustrations. An extensive biography about the Italian Renaissance artists.
Vasari's Lives of the Artists
Author: Giorgio Vasari
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2005-07-26
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 0486441806
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne of the principal resources for study of Italian Renaissance art and artists, Vasari's Lives offers colorful, detailed portraits of the era's most representative figures. This single-volume edition spotlights 8 prominent artists.
Sandro Botticelli
Author: Julia Cartwright
Publisher:
Published: 1920
Total Pages: 232
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKTitian's 'Venus of Urbino'
Author: Rona Goffen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1997-02-28
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9780521444484
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArguably the quintessential work of the High Renaissance in Venice, Titian's Venus of Urbino also represents one of the major themes of western art: the female nude. But how did Titian intend this work to be received? Is she Venus, as the popular title - a modern invention - implies; or is she merely a courtesan? This book tackles this and other questions in six essays by European and American art historians. Examining the work within the context of Renaissance art theory, as well as the psychology and society of sixteenth-century Italy, and even in relation to Manet's nineteenth-century 'translation' of the work, their observations begin and end with the painting itself, and with appreciation of Titian's great achievement in creating this archetypal image of feminine beauty.
Renaissance Faces
Author: Lorne Campbell
Publisher: National Gallery London
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This survey traces the development of portrait painting in Northern and Southern Europe during the Renaissance, when the genre first flourished. Both regions developed their own distinct styles and techniques, but each was influenced by the other. Focusing on the relationship between artists of the north and south, renowned specialists analyse the notion of likeness - at that time based not only on accurate reference to posterity, but incorporating all aspects of human life, including propaganda, power, courtship, love, family, ambition and hierarchy. Essays and individual catalogue entries present new research on works by some of the greatest portraitists of the period, including Giovanni Bellini, Sandro Botticelli, Lucas Cranach, Albrecht Durer, Jan van Eyck, Hans Holbein and Titan, all magnificently illustrated."--Jacket.
Metamorphosis
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Publisher: National Gallery Publications
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781857095470
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs part of a unique collaboration between the National Gallery and the Royal Opera House, 14 leading poets were invited to respond to three great masterpieces by the Renaissance painter, Titian.
Visions of Heaven
Author: Martin Kemp
Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Limited
Published: 2021-03
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781848224674
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDante Alighieri (1265-1321) is one of the greatest European writers, whose untrammelled imaginative capacity was matched by a huge base in embracing the science of his era. His texts also paint compelling visual images. In Visions of Heaven, renowned scholar Martin Kemp investigates Dante's supreme vision of divine light and its implications for the visual artists who were the inheritors of Dante's vision. The whole book may be regarded as a new Paragone (comparison), the debate that began in the Renaissance about which of the arts is superior. Dante's ravishing accounts of divine light set painters the severest challenge, which took them centuries to meet. A major theme running through Dante's Divine Comedy, particularly in its third book, the Paradiso, centres on Dante's acts of seeing (conducted according to optical rules with respect to the kind of visual experience that can be accomplished on earth) and the overwhelming of Dante's earthly senses by heavenly light, which does not obey his rules of earthly optics. The repeated blinding of Dante by excessive light sets the tone for artists' portrayal of unseeable brightness.
James McNeill Whistler an Evolution of Painting from the Old Masters: Identified By Two Missing Masterpieces
Author: Angelle M Vinet
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2017-07-12
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 1483471233
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe discovery of this masterpiece Whistler's "Portrait of William Merritt Chase," along with another important Whistler painting, "Harmony in Black, No10," reveals exciting new discoveries on Whistler's artistic methods, from the Old Masters and the artistic truisms of the Renaissance. Documented analysis including x-ray examination, forensics and recognized paintings by Whistler's followers will confirm this portrait and "Harmony in Black, No10," with x-ray revealing two lost paintings. These Whistler paintings connect scholarship and identify paintings worthy of merit and what makes a masterpiece a masterpiece.
Botticelli Past and Present
Author: Ana Debenedetti
Publisher: UCL Press
Published: 2019-01-08
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 178735461X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
