Leonardo Da Vinci
Leonardo Da Vinci

Author: Edoardo Villata

Publisher: 5Continents

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13:

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The significance of Leonardo da Vinci's contributions to the medium of painting is highlighted in this collection celebrating his works, including The Last Supper and The Virgin on the Rocks . This book avoids myths about da Vinci and presents a chronology of his life, a critical essay on his work, and selections of his drawings that support the claim that, above all other media, painting was da Vinci's primary focus. The flurry of his artistic activity and the importance of his work are showcased in this updated introduction to his life and art.

Orlan. Le récit-The narrative. Ediz. illustrata
Orlan. Le récit-The narrative. Ediz. illustrata

Author: Orlan

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13:

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Unique book addressing cooperative algorithms at the MAC layer Cooperative Communications: MAC Protocols focuses on issues pertaining to the MAC layer of wireless cooperative communication networks, offering a rigorous taxonomy of this dispersed field, along with a range of application scenarios for cooperative and distributed schemes to show how these techniques can be employed. The authors provide rigorous analytical tools for reservation and contention based MACs, as well as hybrids. This is complemented by an application of developed techniques to specific wireless standards. There is currently no book on the market which coherently discusses cooperative algorithms at the MAC layer. Introduces background, concepts, applications, milestones and thorough taxonomy of the field, along with a range of application scenarios Identifies the potential in this emerging technology applied to e.g. LTE/WiMAX, WSN Explores reservation-based, contention-based and hybrid cooperative MAC protocols, and applies rigorous mathematical tools to these Demonstrates cross-layer design to boost performance Addresses advanced MAC topics, such as opportunistic and network coded MACs Highlights future research challenges within the cooperative communications Includes an accompanying website ( http://books.cttc.es )

Fra Angelico. Ediz. illustrata
Fra Angelico. Ediz. illustrata

Author: Diane Cole Ahl

Publisher: Phaidon Press Limited

Published: 2008-07-31

Total Pages: 250

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Examines the life and work of possibly the most celebrated religious painter of the Italian Early Renaissance, Fra Giovanni da Fiesole, known as Fra Angelico. From the delicate altarpieces to the serene frescos in the monastery of San Marco in Florence, this book discusses the context of the time and places in which his works were created.

Botticelli Past and Present
Botticelli Past and Present

Author: Ana Debenedetti

Publisher: UCL Press

Published: 2019-01-08

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 178735461X

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The 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.

Man Ray
Man Ray

Author: Man Ray

Publisher: Thames & Hudson

Published: 1982

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13:

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Already in 1972, the National Museum of Modern Art had a major retrospective devoted to Man Ray. Like all exhibitions held in collaboration with the artist at that time, he extensively showed his creative activity and its fascinating diversity: paintings, collages, drawings, sculptures, assemblages, etc rayographs. In relation to the photographs, the other media were there in very small numbers. The current exhibition at the Centre Pompidou proposes therefore is the complementary part of the previous. The focus is on photography by bringing together hundreds of photographs, both masterpieces of unknown, or little known, aspects of his production: portraits of Dadaists and Surrealists friends, the celebrities of intellectual and artistic Paris, the Anglo-Saxon writers, creative photography Illustrative for surrealist magazines, nudes and rayographs but also views of Paris, the photo mode and commissioned portraits. Some of these blocks, unknown in original prints, have recently been drawn and will be shown for the first time. As for painting and objects, fifty highly selected pieces will give a renewed vision of success he has achieved in various moments of his life with fresh and inventive works.

Leonardo & Nature. Ediz. Illustrata
Leonardo & Nature. Ediz. Illustrata

Author: Sara Taglialagamba

Publisher: CB Edizioni

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9788895686233

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As is well known, Leonardo defines painting as the "daughter of nature". His observation of nature, his fascination with every living thing that surrounded him was the main source of his drawings. His entire life was dedicated to investigating and trying to understand the laws of nature. Nature is observed, studied and depicted in all its forms. In fact, Leonardo constantly aims at reproducing every element of nature: animals, flowers, fruits, birds and also, a female smile, the throbbing of the hearth or - following a series of examples - the intricate plait of Renaissance hairdos. All these elements have in common the uninterrupted flow of the secret of life.

Romanesque & Gothic
Romanesque & Gothic

Author: Gloria Fossi

Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9781402759246

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Too often overshadowed by the Renaissance, the High Middle Ages were a time of vibrant innovation and incredible achievement in European art and architecture. Gloria Fossi provides comprehensive surveys of the period's two major art movements or styles, highlighting the diversity of expression that both movements accommodated.