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Languages : en
Pages : 180
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Catalogues of Items for Auction by Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 1850-1880
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Languages : en
Pages : 180
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Pages : 180
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Concepts of Beauty in Renaissance Art
Author: Francis Ames-Lewis
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429860544
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 379
Book Description
In this Volume, published in1998, Fifteen scholars reveal the ways of preserving, conceiving and creating beauty were as diverse as the cultural influenced at work at the time, deriving from antique, medieval and more recent literature and philosophy, and from contemporary notions of morality and courtly behaviour. Approaches include discussion of contemporary critical terms and how these determined writers’ appreciation of paintings, sculpture, architecture and costume; studies of the quest to create beauty in the work of artists such as Botticeli, Leonardo, Raphael, Parmigianino and Vasari; and the investigation of changes functioning of the eye and brain, or to technical innovations like those found in Venetian glass.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429860544
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 379
Book Description
In this Volume, published in1998, Fifteen scholars reveal the ways of preserving, conceiving and creating beauty were as diverse as the cultural influenced at work at the time, deriving from antique, medieval and more recent literature and philosophy, and from contemporary notions of morality and courtly behaviour. Approaches include discussion of contemporary critical terms and how these determined writers’ appreciation of paintings, sculpture, architecture and costume; studies of the quest to create beauty in the work of artists such as Botticeli, Leonardo, Raphael, Parmigianino and Vasari; and the investigation of changes functioning of the eye and brain, or to technical innovations like those found in Venetian glass.
A History of Human Beauty
Author: Arthur Marwick
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1847250505
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305
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A look at outstanding physical attractiveness as a quality or possession, comparable to power, intelligence, strength, wealth, education or family.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1847250505
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
A look at outstanding physical attractiveness as a quality or possession, comparable to power, intelligence, strength, wealth, education or family.
Delle opere di m. Agnolo Firenzuola Fiorentino ...
Author: Agnolo Firenzuola
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Category : Italian literature
Languages : it
Pages : 384
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Languages : it
Pages : 384
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The Italian Novella
Author: Gloria Allaire
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135354677
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
The novella was an important medieval and Renaissance prose narrative form that developed out of exempla and didactic literature and contributed to modern narrative forms. This is the first collection of essays dedicated to comprehensive scholarship on the Italian novella. The essays range from work on the Decameron , the epitome of the genre, to studies of sixteenth century authors who often utilized transgressive or sexual themes in their novellas.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135354677
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
The novella was an important medieval and Renaissance prose narrative form that developed out of exempla and didactic literature and contributed to modern narrative forms. This is the first collection of essays dedicated to comprehensive scholarship on the Italian novella. The essays range from work on the Decameron , the epitome of the genre, to studies of sixteenth century authors who often utilized transgressive or sexual themes in their novellas.
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
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Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Catalogue of the Leeds Library
Author: Leeds Library
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Languages : en
Pages : 756
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Languages : en
Pages : 756
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Delle Opere Di M. Agnolo Firenzuola Fiorentino
Author: Agnolo Firenzuola
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Languages : en
Pages : 360
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Languages : en
Pages : 360
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Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies: A-J
Author: Gaetana Marrone
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1579583903
Category : Italian literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2258
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Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1579583903
Category : Italian literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2258
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Fairy-Tale Science
Author: Suzanne Magnanini
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442692375
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Between 1550 and 1650, Europe was swept by a fascination with wondrous accounts of monsters and other marvels - of valiant men slaying dragons, women giving birth to animals, young girls growing penises, and all manner of fantastic phenomena. Known as 'fairy tales,' these stories had many guises and inhabited a variety of literary texts. The first two collections of such fairy tales published on the continent, Giovan Francesco Straparola's Le piacevoli notti and Giambattista Basile's Lo cunto de li cunti, were greeted with much enthusiasm at home and abroad and essentially established a new literary genre. Contrary to popular thought, Italy, not Germany or France, was the birthplace of the literary fairy tale. This fascination with the marvellous also extended to the worlds of science, medicine, philosophy, and religion, and many treatises from the period focused on discussions of monsters, demons, magic, and witchcraft. In Fairy-Tale Science Suzanne Magnanini looks at these 'science fictions' and explores the birth and evolution of the literary fairy tale in the context of early modern discourses on the monstrous. She demonstrates how both the normative literary theories of the Italian intellectual establishment and the emerging New Science limited the genre's success on its native soil. Natural philosophers, physicians, and clergymen positioned the fairy tale in opposition in opposition to science, fixing it as a negative pole in a binary system, one which came to define both a new type of scientific inquiry and the nascent literary genre. Magnanini also suggests that, by identifying their literary production with the monstrous and the feminine, Straparola and Basile contributed to the marginalization of the new genre. A wide-ranging yet carefully crafted study, Fairy-Tale Science investigates the complex interplay between scientific discourse and an emerging literary genre, and expands our understanding of the early modern European imagination.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442692375
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Between 1550 and 1650, Europe was swept by a fascination with wondrous accounts of monsters and other marvels - of valiant men slaying dragons, women giving birth to animals, young girls growing penises, and all manner of fantastic phenomena. Known as 'fairy tales,' these stories had many guises and inhabited a variety of literary texts. The first two collections of such fairy tales published on the continent, Giovan Francesco Straparola's Le piacevoli notti and Giambattista Basile's Lo cunto de li cunti, were greeted with much enthusiasm at home and abroad and essentially established a new literary genre. Contrary to popular thought, Italy, not Germany or France, was the birthplace of the literary fairy tale. This fascination with the marvellous also extended to the worlds of science, medicine, philosophy, and religion, and many treatises from the period focused on discussions of monsters, demons, magic, and witchcraft. In Fairy-Tale Science Suzanne Magnanini looks at these 'science fictions' and explores the birth and evolution of the literary fairy tale in the context of early modern discourses on the monstrous. She demonstrates how both the normative literary theories of the Italian intellectual establishment and the emerging New Science limited the genre's success on its native soil. Natural philosophers, physicians, and clergymen positioned the fairy tale in opposition in opposition to science, fixing it as a negative pole in a binary system, one which came to define both a new type of scientific inquiry and the nascent literary genre. Magnanini also suggests that, by identifying their literary production with the monstrous and the feminine, Straparola and Basile contributed to the marginalization of the new genre. A wide-ranging yet carefully crafted study, Fairy-Tale Science investigates the complex interplay between scientific discourse and an emerging literary genre, and expands our understanding of the early modern European imagination.