The Feast of Bacchus
The Feast of Bacchus

Author: Ernest George Henham

Publisher: Scholar's Choice

Published: 2015-02-18

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 9781297231131

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Furze The Cruel
Furze The Cruel

Author: John Trevena

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2024-01-03

Total Pages: 333

ISBN-13: 9361420534

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"Furze the Cruel" by John Trevena is a captivating portrayal of Cornwall's rural life, delving deep into the intricacies of human nature amidst its breathtaking landscape. Through the lens of love, betrayal, and redemption, Trevena intricately weaves a tale of character development, highlighting the clash between tradition and progress in a community bound by loyalty and adversity. Set against the backdrop of Cornwall's rugged terrain, the novel explores themes of resilience and cruelty, as characters navigate the challenges of their environment while grappling with their own inner conflicts. Trevena's masterful storytelling captures the essence of rural life, painting a vivid picture of a community shaped by its traditions and the ever-changing forces of modernity. As the characters confront betrayal and hardship, they are forced to confront their own limitations and prejudices, ultimately finding redemption in acts of courage and compassion. Through its richly drawn characters and evocative landscape, "Furze the Cruel" offers readers a poignant reflection on the complexities of human nature and the enduring power of love and loyalty in the face of adversity.

Under Divine Auspices
Under Divine Auspices

Author: Clare Rowan

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1107020123

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Exploration of the role played by deities in the negotiation of imperial power under the Severan dynasty (AD 193-235).

"Titian, Colonna and the Renaissance Science of Procreation "

Author: Anthony Colantuono

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-07-05

Total Pages: 343

ISBN-13: 1351539027

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Titian, Colonna and the Renaissance Science of Procreation demonstrates that two major monuments of Italian Renaissance culture - Bellini's and Titian's famous series of mytho-poetical paintings for the camerino of Duke Alfonso d'Este of Ferrara, and Francesco Colonna's Hypnerotomachia Poliphili - were conceived as mnemonic or pedagogical devices aimed at educating the reader/beholder in the medical science of reproductive physiology and the maintenance of sexual health. It is further argued that the learned courtier Mario Equicola, who conceived the pictorial program of Duke Alfonso's camerino, had read Colonna's text and was extensively inspired by its prior literary argument. The study is organized in two parts, intimately interrelated. The first part is a study of Alfonso d'Este's camerino, with a general introduction, individual chapters on each of Bellini's and Titian's four pictorial "bacchanals," and a conclusion proposing a new and more accurate reconstruction of the layout of the room, also including a completely new way of interpreting the ensemble. The second part of the study concerns Colonna's Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, again beginning with its own introductory essay and advancing a completely new interpretation of the text. The brief conclusion brings the insights of the two sections together, clarifying the historical relationship between the pictorial and literary works and explaining their larger cultural significance. Emphasizing Equicola's use of the Hypnerotomachia as a model for pictorial invention, the author reveals how Titian's remarkably sensuous paintings and Colonna's erotically-charged romance are related by their common reference to the neo-Aristotelian medical theory of the "libidinal seasons," and by corollary themes of marriage and sexual consummation. This peculiar intersection of cultural themes came to prominence in the context of a courtly world in which medical science was increasingly brought to bear on the problem of dy

Michaelina Wautier, 1614-1689
Michaelina Wautier, 1614-1689

Author: Gerlinde Gruber

Publisher:

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 323

ISBN-13: 9789085867630

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In Antwerp in the summer of 2018 the MAS, in collaboration with the Rubens House, will be organizing a first-ever monographic exhibition of the forgotten female artist Michaelina Wautier (1614-89). She was born in Mons but developed her career in Brussels, where she was working in around 1650. The artist maintained contacts with the court of the Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria who had four of her works in his collection. We know of some thirty paintings and one drawing by her hand. More than a third of these are signed in full and dated. Wautier painted masterful historical pieces, incisive portraits, endearing genre scenes and tranquil flower arrangements. There is no doubt that she displayed a ground-breaking versatility. Challenging themes, masterly techniques and a grand scale are all characteristic of her work. All her pieces were produced between 1643 and 1659. Her masterpiece is undoubtedly The Triumph of Bacchus held at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. Michaelina Wautier appears in the painting as a seminude bacchante and is the only one of the figures present to look directly at the viewer.