Author: Margherita Sarrocchi
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226735060
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 492
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The first historical heroic epic authored by a woman, Scanderbeide recounts the exploits of fifteenth-century Albanian warrior-prince George Scanderbeg and his war of resistance against the Ottoman sultanate. Filled with scenes of intense and suspenseful battles contrasted with romantic episodes, Scanderbeide combines the action and fantasy characteristic of the genre with analysis of its characters’ motivations. In selecting a military campaign as her material and epic poetry as her medium, Margherita Sarrocchi (1560?–1617) not only engages in the masculine subjects of political conflict and warfare but also tackles a genre that was, until that point, the sole purview of men. First published posthumously in 1623, Scanderbeide reemerges here in an adroit English prose translation that maintains the suspense of the original text and gives ample context to its rich cultural implications.
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Languages : en
Pages : 424
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Author: Thomas Osborne
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Languages : en
Pages : 422
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Author: Nancy Ward Neilson
Publisher: Scholarly Title
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 532
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Author: Genevieve Warwick
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ISBN: 9780300187069
Category : Bernini, Gian Lorenzo
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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While Baroque artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) is celebrated as a sculptor, architect, and painter, it is less known that he also was a playwright, scenographer, actor, and director. The Baroque period saw the rise of opera and ballet, as well as increasingly elaborate scenographic technologies for court and religious theatre. Bernini drew from this lexicon of theatrical effects, deploying light, movement, and the porous boundary between fictive and physical space to forge a language of Baroque illusion for both his scenographies and his sculptural ensembles. "Bernini: Art as Theatre" investigates the different types of cultural space for the staging of his art, from court settings to public squares and church interiors. Drawing parallels between the visual and theatrical arts, and highlighting the dramatic amplification of religious art in the period, this provocative study provides a model that can be extended beyond Bernini to enable us to reconsider 17th-century visual culture as a whole.
Author: University of Texas at Austin. Library. Latin American Collection
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Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 768
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Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Library
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 690
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Author: Isaac López César
Publisher: Architect Publications
ISBN: 9788494625732
Category : Exhibitions
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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This book is a fascinating journey along the history of architectural structures over the last 150 years, taking the World Expos as an original unifying thread. Nevertheless, it does not solely focus on the exhibition buildings; on the contrary, these are continuously being related to buildings beyond the scope of the Expos, thus ultimately providing a general vision of the history of modern structures. This essay is destined to become an essential work of reference within the history of architectural structures. It is generously illustrated with more than nine hundred large-scale illustrations, many of which have not appeared in contemporary publications. It offers innumerable facts that will interest architects, engineers or art historians. Likewise, members of the general public far-removed from these fields will also be able to enjoy many of the passages which are accessible to those who do not have any specific knowledge of architecture or engineering.
Author: Michael J. Heckenberger
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Languages : en
Pages : 483
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Author: Ana Mafalda Leite
Publisher: Tagus
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 564
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A collection of scholars from Cape Verde, Brazil, Portugal, the United States, the United Kingdom and Spain writing about Cape Verde
