Author: Sir George Francis Hill
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medalists
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Pisanello
Author: Sir George Francis Hill
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medalists
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medalists
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Pisanello
Author: Luke Syson
Publisher: National Gallery Publications Limited
ISBN: 9780300091083
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Pisanello (c.1394-1455) was the most celebrated artist of the early Italian Renaissance. A painter in fresco and on panel, a prolific and innovative draughtsman prized especially for minutely observed studies of animals and birds, he also became the first modern specialist of the portrait medal. Inspired equally by Arthurian romance, Gothic manuscript illuminations, classical antiquity and contemporary court fashions, his work provides a vivid record of the interests and ideals of his patrons, notably the Gonzaga, Este and Visconti rulers of northern Italian city states. To a modern viewer, Pisanello reveals an enchanted world, at once elegant, imaginative and intensely naturalistic. Yet with the loss of most of his paintings, and the dispersion in specialised museum collections of his drawings and medals, the artist's fame has been eclipsed. This is the first comprehensive book in English for almost a century to present a full survey of his life and work. Taking as their starting point an analysis in depth of his two exquisite panel pictures in the National Gallery, London - The Vision of Saint Eustace and The Virgin and Child with Saint Anthony Abbot and Saint George - the authors give a detailed account of Pisanello's imagery, his techniques and working methods, of his probable teachers and influences, his collaborators and followers. But the book is not confined to artistic matters alone. By firmly situating Pisanello within the fascinating political and intellectual life of the fifteenth-century Italian courts, it also illuminates a defining moment in European culture: when chivalric values were reconciled with humanist learning, Christian piety with Ciceronian eloquence, the arts of war with the art of living worthily - and a contemporary visual artist, Pisanello himself, first received the plaudits of poets and scholars.
Publisher: National Gallery Publications Limited
ISBN: 9780300091083
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Pisanello (c.1394-1455) was the most celebrated artist of the early Italian Renaissance. A painter in fresco and on panel, a prolific and innovative draughtsman prized especially for minutely observed studies of animals and birds, he also became the first modern specialist of the portrait medal. Inspired equally by Arthurian romance, Gothic manuscript illuminations, classical antiquity and contemporary court fashions, his work provides a vivid record of the interests and ideals of his patrons, notably the Gonzaga, Este and Visconti rulers of northern Italian city states. To a modern viewer, Pisanello reveals an enchanted world, at once elegant, imaginative and intensely naturalistic. Yet with the loss of most of his paintings, and the dispersion in specialised museum collections of his drawings and medals, the artist's fame has been eclipsed. This is the first comprehensive book in English for almost a century to present a full survey of his life and work. Taking as their starting point an analysis in depth of his two exquisite panel pictures in the National Gallery, London - The Vision of Saint Eustace and The Virgin and Child with Saint Anthony Abbot and Saint George - the authors give a detailed account of Pisanello's imagery, his techniques and working methods, of his probable teachers and influences, his collaborators and followers. But the book is not confined to artistic matters alone. By firmly situating Pisanello within the fascinating political and intellectual life of the fifteenth-century Italian courts, it also illuminates a defining moment in European culture: when chivalric values were reconciled with humanist learning, Christian piety with Ciceronian eloquence, the arts of war with the art of living worthily - and a contemporary visual artist, Pisanello himself, first received the plaudits of poets and scholars.
Pisanello
Author: Enio Sindona
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Master Drawings of the Italian Renaissance
Author: Claire Van Cleave
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674026773
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
"Beginning with an examination of drawing as part of the creative process, and showing how it reveals the artist's mind at work, the author explains in detail the materials and techniques used in Renaissance drawings. It also considers how drawings were used, how they changed stylistically through the period and how they varied in different regions of Italy. It concludes with a brief look at connoisseurship and collecting."--Amazon.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674026773
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
"Beginning with an examination of drawing as part of the creative process, and showing how it reveals the artist's mind at work, the author explains in detail the materials and techniques used in Renaissance drawings. It also considers how drawings were used, how they changed stylistically through the period and how they varied in different regions of Italy. It concludes with a brief look at connoisseurship and collecting."--Amazon.
Art and Fashion
Author: Alice Mackrell
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9780713488739
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
"Takes a detailed look at the flow of ideas between the twin worlds of art and fashion, chronicling their close relationship. It charts a history of ideas highlighting key moments, from the Renaissance to the present day, when art and fashion interacted and influenced each other... This close synergy between art and fashion has continued into the 21st century, with artists working with themes that explore clothes and the body, and top fashion designers feted in lavish museum exhibitions."-- Back cover.
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9780713488739
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
"Takes a detailed look at the flow of ideas between the twin worlds of art and fashion, chronicling their close relationship. It charts a history of ideas highlighting key moments, from the Renaissance to the present day, when art and fashion interacted and influenced each other... This close synergy between art and fashion has continued into the 21st century, with artists working with themes that explore clothes and the body, and top fashion designers feted in lavish museum exhibitions."-- Back cover.
Behind the Picture
Author: British Academy Wolfson Research Professor Department of the History of Art Martin Kemp
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300071955
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Considers the business of picture-making in the Renaissance. In particular, the text discusses the role of the artist and the functions of works of art in relation to their various kinds of audience.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300071955
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Considers the business of picture-making in the Renaissance. In particular, the text discusses the role of the artist and the functions of works of art in relation to their various kinds of audience.
The Speaker
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
Pisanello's Medallion of the Emperor John VIII Palaeologus
Author: Roberto Weiss
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medals, Renaissance
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medals, Renaissance
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
The Arthur of the Italians
Author:
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 1783160519
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
This is the first comprehensive book on the Arthurian legend in medieval and Renaissance Italy since Edmund Gardner's 1930 The Arthurian Legend in Italian Literature. Arthurian material reached all levels of Italian society, from princely courts with their luxury books and frescoed palaces, to the merchant classes and even popular audiences in the piazza, which enjoyed shorter retellings in verse and prose. Unique assemblages emerge on Italian soil, such as the Compilation of Rustichello da Pisa or the innovative Tavola Ritonda, in versions made for both Tuscany and the Po Valley. Chapters examine the transmission of the French romances across Italy; reworkings in various Italian regional dialects; the textual relations of the prose Tristan; narrative structures employed by Italian writers; later ottava rima poetic versions in the new medium of printed books; the Arthurian-themed art of the Middle Ages and Renaissance; and more. The Arthur of the Italians offers a rich corpus of new criticism by scholars who have brought the Italian Arthurian material back into critical conversation.
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 1783160519
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
This is the first comprehensive book on the Arthurian legend in medieval and Renaissance Italy since Edmund Gardner's 1930 The Arthurian Legend in Italian Literature. Arthurian material reached all levels of Italian society, from princely courts with their luxury books and frescoed palaces, to the merchant classes and even popular audiences in the piazza, which enjoyed shorter retellings in verse and prose. Unique assemblages emerge on Italian soil, such as the Compilation of Rustichello da Pisa or the innovative Tavola Ritonda, in versions made for both Tuscany and the Po Valley. Chapters examine the transmission of the French romances across Italy; reworkings in various Italian regional dialects; the textual relations of the prose Tristan; narrative structures employed by Italian writers; later ottava rima poetic versions in the new medium of printed books; the Arthurian-themed art of the Middle Ages and Renaissance; and more. The Arthur of the Italians offers a rich corpus of new criticism by scholars who have brought the Italian Arthurian material back into critical conversation.
For the Love of Dachshunds
Author: Robert Hutchinson
Publisher: Browntrout Publishers
ISBN: 1563139030
Category : Dachshunds
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
"Text investigates the conformation, genetics,and breed history of the Dachshund. Includes over 100 full-color photographs"--Provided by publisher.
Publisher: Browntrout Publishers
ISBN: 1563139030
Category : Dachshunds
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
"Text investigates the conformation, genetics,and breed history of the Dachshund. Includes over 100 full-color photographs"--Provided by publisher.