Author: Sir John Wyndham Pope-Hennessy
Publisher:
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Category : Sculpture
Languages : en
Pages : 442

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Author: Christine Powell
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0750686197
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 330

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An in-depth analysis of materials and techniques used on 40 of the V&As most important Renaissance frames. It will enable the reader to recognise frame style, the design appropriate for the period, as well as additions or alterations and frames that have been made later, but aged to look older.

Author: Leonardo da Vinci
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465514147
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1118

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A singular fatality has ruled the destiny of nearly all the most famous of Leonardo da Vinci's works. Two of the three most important were never completed, obstacles having arisen during his life-time, which obliged him to leave them unfinished; namely the Sforza Monument and the Wall-painting of the Battle of Anghiari, while the third—the picture of the Last Supper at Milan—has suffered irremediable injury from decay and the repeated restorations to which it was recklessly subjected during the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries. Nevertheless, no other picture of the Renaissance has become so wellknown and popular through copies of every description. Vasari says, and rightly, in his Life of Leonardo, "that he laboured much more by his word than in fact or by deed", and the biographer evidently had in his mind the numerous works in Manuscript which have been preserved to this day. To us, now, it seems almost inexplicable that these valuable and interesting original texts should have remained so long unpublished, and indeed forgotten. It is certain that during the XVIth and XVIIth centuries their exceptional value was highly appreciated. This is proved not merely by the prices which they commanded, but also by the exceptional interest which has been attached to the change of ownership of merely a few pages of Manuscript. That, notwithstanding this eagerness to possess the Manuscripts, their contents remained a mystery, can only be accounted for by the many and great difficulties attending the task of deciphering them. The handwriting is so peculiar that it requires considerable practice to read even a few detached phrases, much more to solve with any certainty the numerous difficulties of alternative readings, and to master the sense as a connected whole. Vasari observes with reference to Leonardos writing: "he wrote backwards, in rude characters, and with the left hand, so that any one who is not practised in reading them, cannot understand them". The aid of a mirror in reading reversed handwriting appears to me available only for a first experimental reading. Speaking from my own experience, the persistent use of it is too fatiguing and inconvenient to be practically advisable, considering the enormous mass of Manuscripts to be deciphered. And as, after all, Leonardo's handwriting runs backwards just as all Oriental character runs backwards—that is to say from right to left—the difficulty of reading direct from the writing is not insuperable. This obvious peculiarity in the writing is not, however, by any means the only obstacle in the way of mastering the text. Leonardo made use of an orthography peculiar to himself; he had a fashion of amalgamating several short words into one long one, or, again, he would quite arbitrarily divide a long word into two separate halves; added to this there is no punctuation whatever to regulate the division and construction of the sentences, nor are there any accents—and the reader may imagine that such difficulties were almost sufficient to make the task seem a desperate one to a beginner. It is therefore not surprising that the good intentions of some of Leonardo s most reverent admirers should have failed.

Author: Elizabeth James
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134271069
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 841

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A comprehensive bibliography and exhibition chronology of the world's greatest museum of the decorative arts and design. The Victoria and Albert Museum, or South Kensington Museum as it used to be known, was founded by the British Government in 1852, out of the proceeds from the Great Exhibition of 1851. Like the Exhibition, it aimed to improve the expertise of designers, and the taste of the public, by exposing them to examples of good design from all countries and periods. 2,500 publications have to date been produced by, for, or in association with the V&A. The National Art Library, which is part of the Museum, has prepared this detailed catalogue, supplemented by a secondary list of 500 other books closely related to the V&A. The 1,500 exhibitions and displays recorded include those held in the main Museum and at its branches, the Bethnal Green Museum (now the National Museum of Childhood) and the Theatre Museum, Covent Garden, and additionally those it has organized at external venues, in Great Britain and abroad. The exhibitions and publications are fully cross-referenced, and there are name, title and subject indexes to the whole work, as well as an explanatory introduction.

Author: Peta Motture
Publisher: Victoria & Albert Museum
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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The collection of Italian bronzes at the Victoria and Albert Museum is extraordinary for its size, variety, and scope. The first book in English devoted to the subject, this fully illustrated volume provides a complete catalogue of a key part of this collection -- 75 small bells, mortars, and related utensils mainly from the Renaissance period. Bells & Mortars contains details of inscriptions and makers' marks and substantial technical information, including data based on X-ray examination and metal analysis. Essays set the bronzes into their broader historical, religious, and pharmaceutical contexts, making this catalogue invaluable to scholars and collectors as well as those with an interest in pharmaceutical history.

Author: Peta Motture
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300090803
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Peta Motture
Publisher: Victoria & Albert Museum
ISBN: 9781851776405
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 384

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This fully illustrated volume brings together new research by some of the world’s leading experts, exploring the artistic production and cultural context of Italian Renaissance sculpture, from Lorenzo Ghiberti’s Gates of Paradise to the small bronzes of Giambologna and his followers. The essays cover a range of sculptural materials and forms to cast fresh light on the artists, their creative and collaborative processes, and those who commissioned, owned, and responded to their work.

Author: Victoria and Albert Museum
Publisher: Victoria & Albert Museum
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 196

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The Victoria and Albert Museum holds the finest and most wide-ranging collection of post-classical sculpture in the world. This book contains over 100 of the greatest masterpieces of the National Collection of Sculpture at the Museum, each of which is described in detail and beautifully illustrated. Through the book's pages it is possible to follow the development of sculpture from the Early Christian period to the beginning of the twentieth century. Amongst the finest pieces are a group of highly important ivory carvings from the Middle Ages, reliefs and figures in marble and terracotta by the greatest Italian sculptors, outstanding English eighteenth-century sculptures on both a large and small scale, and major examples of works from Germany, the Netherlands, France and Spain.

Author: Victoria and Albert Museum. Dept. of Architecture and Sculpture
Publisher:
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Category : Sculpture
Languages : en
Pages : 388

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