Tuscany. Images from the Alinari archives. Ediz. illustrata
Tuscany. Images from the Alinari archives. Ediz. illustrata

Author: Giovanna Naldi

Publisher: Fratelli Alinari spa

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 8872924774

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This carefully selected collection of photographs from the Alinari archives invites the reader to take a special journey through Tuscany, and offers a wide panorama of the many faces of this region throughout history and into modern times. Structured in such a way as to highlight the chronological development of the region's most well-known features, these pictures provide an unusually comprhensive portrait of an Tuscany and its people.

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.

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.

Melchiorre Cafà
Melchiorre Cafà

Author: Alessandra Anselmi

Publisher: Midsea Books

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13:

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This publication is the first truly collective attempt to study the work of Melchiorre Cafa'. In a variety of studies, it discusses specific and synoptic issues related to his oeuvre. The book also presents a check-list of works by (or attributed to) the artist; this check-list aims at establishing a critical repertory of his oeuvre.

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.

The Villa Laurentina of Pliny the Younger in an Eighteenth-century Vision
The Villa Laurentina of Pliny the Younger in an Eighteenth-century Vision

Author: Jerzy Miziołek

Publisher:

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9788891308443

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"The book deals with a paper reconstruction of Pliny the Younger' s (c. AD 61-112) villa near Ostia, some twenty kilometres from Rome. This unique work was created in Rome in the years 1777-78 by a young Pole, Count Stanisław Potocki (1755-1821) in cooperation with Giuseppe Manocchi and other outstanding artists of the time. The work, originally in the Potocki collection in Wilanów, is today housed in the iconographic collection of the National Library, Warsaw. It contains over thirty large-format drawings (57.789.5 cm) in colour. Just before the close of the 18th century, probably during his last sojourn in Italy (1795-97), Count Potocki wrote a 24-page-long commentary to his work, entitled Notes et Idées sur la Villa de Pline. This hitherto unpublished manuscript commentary and reconstruction drawings of the villa are now published together with a virtual visualisation of the villa produced in 3D Studio Max 2014."--