Author: Leopoldine van Hogendorp Prosperetti
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 9780754660903
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 314
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In this first comprehensive full length study in English on the art of Jan Brueghel the Elder, Leopoldine Prosperetti discloses the nature of the philosophical culture of Antwerp at the time, show its importance in the lives of cultivated citizens, and reveals the patterns of thought and visual stratagems by which his landscapes underwrite the pursuit of wisdom. The book presents a new model for the interpretation of a range of visual genres, including various types of landscape, that were popular in the Antwerp picture trade.
Author: Leopoldine Prosperetti
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351561162
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 307
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In this first comprehensive full length study in English on the art of Jan Brueghel the Elder, Leopoldine Prosperetti illuminates how the work of this painter relates to a philosophical culture prevailing in the Antwerp of his time. She shows that no matter what scenery, figures or objects stock the pictorial field, Brueghel's diverse pictures have something in common: they all embed visual trajectories that allow for the viewer to craft out of the raw material of the picture a moment of spiritual repose. Rooted in the art of Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Bruegel the Elder these vistas are shown to meet the expectation of viewers to discover in their mazes a rhetorically conceived path to wisdom. The key issue is the ambition of pictorial images to bring into practice the humanist belief that philosophy and rhetoric are inseparable. This original study analyzes the patterns of thought and recurrent optical tropes that constitute a visual poetics for shifting genres - no longer devotional, yet sharing in the meditative goal of redirecting the soul toward an intuitive knowledge of what is good in life. This book reveals how everyday life is the preferred vehicle for delivering the results of philosophical pursuits. One chapter is dedicated to Brueghel's innovative attention to the experience of traveling in a variety of wheeled vehicles along the roads of his native Brabant. He is unique, and surprisingly modern, in giving contemporary viewers an accurate account of all the different types of conveyances that clutter the roads. It makes for lively versions of one of his favorite themes: The Traveled Road. By taking the pursuit of wisdom as its theme, the book succeeds in presenting a new model for the interpretation of a range of visual genres in the Antwerp picture trade.
Author: Daniel Dana, jr. (Firm)
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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Author: George Egon Hatvary
Publisher: Ardent Media
ISBN: 9780805771909
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Languages : en
Pages : 178
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Author: Princeton University. Library
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 476
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Author: Debra Cashion
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004354123
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 631
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The Primacy of the Image in Northern Art 1400-1700: Essays in Honor of Larry Silver is an anthology of 42 essays written by distinguished scholars on current research and methodology in the art history of Northern Europe of the late medieval and early modern periods. Written in tribute to Larry Silver, Farquhar Professor of the History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania, the topics are inspired by Professor Silver’s renowned scholarship in these areas: Early Netherlandish Painting and Prints; Sixteenth-Century Netherlandish Painting; Manuscripts, Patrons, and Printed Books; Dürer and the Power of Pictures; Prints and Printmaking; and Seventeenth-Century Painting. Studies of specific artists include Hans Memling, Albrecht Dürer, Hans Baldung Grien, Hieronymus Bosch, Pieter Bruegel, Hendrick Goltzius, and Rembrandt.
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 860
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Author: Groton Public Library
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Category : Library rules and regulations
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Author: Public Library (GROTON, Mass.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 108
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Author: Philadelphia. Apprentices' Library Company
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 270
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