Author: Marcello Aldega
Publisher:
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Category : Drawing
Languages : en
Pages : 148

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Author: Roseline Bacou
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870990942
Category : Drawing
Languages : en
Pages : 162

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Author: Annamaria Petrioli Tofani
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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This volume contains reproductions of 100 16th-century Master Drawings from the outstanding holding of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. It provides a broad view of drawing styles and functions in Tuscany ranging from High Renaissance to Early Baroque, and includes works by such artists as Fra Bartolommeo, Vasari, and Michelangelo. The authors provide descriptive accompanying entries throughout.

Author: Paul F. Watson
Publisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 254

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"The Garden of Love is an important subject in secular art of the fifteenth century, both in Italy and in northern Europe. The chief Italian examples were all painted in Tuscany in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries. They depict a landscape consisting of a flowery meadow, a grove, and a great marble fountain, where lovers gather to sing, dance, and make love. Allied to the Garden of Love are variations on a horticultural theme--gardens for lovers celebrated in history, fountains of love, hunts set in a forest that conclude alongside a fountain. Sometimes, too, the Garden of Love becomes the setting for narratives and romances. In all these instances the Garden is more than a pleasing tapestry like backdrop: it serves as a visible symbol of the nature of love itself. This book illustrated with 97 excellent photographs, attempts to do two things ; to chart the history of the Garden of Love, and explain the significance it once had." -- Book jacket.

Author: Anna Forlani Tempesti
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 9780870996061
Category : Drawing
Languages : en
Pages : 401

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Perhaps more than any other collector of his generation in the United States, Robert Lehman was interested in acquiring early drawings. He made a great effort to add drawings to the collection of paintings, sculpture, ceramics, glass, and other objects that his father, Philip Lehman, had begun assembling. The 116 Italian drawings analyzed and discussed in this volume are among the more than 2,000 works of art from the collection now housed in the Robert Lehman Wing of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Robert Lehman's collection demonstrates the variety of drawings produced in Italy from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century, a period when the purposes and techniques of drawings, as well as the aims and abilities of the artist who made them, became increasingly sophisticated. The volume includes an elaborate design for an equestrian monument by Antonio Pollaiuolo, a magnificent study of a bear by Leonardo da Vinci, a cartoon by Luca Signorelli, a study for a vault fresco by Taddeo Zuccaro, and many other drawings that are among the best Italian examples to have survived from that era. Most types of drawings, in a wide variety of techniques, are represented—figure studies, grand compositions, landscapes, cartoons, modelli, and even sculptors' studies. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.

Author: Vernon Lee
Publisher:
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Category : Anarchism
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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Author: Anne Mueller von der Haegen
Publisher: Konemann
ISBN: 9783829026529
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 626

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Author: Karl Baedeker (Firm)
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Category : Italy
Languages : en
Pages : 796

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Author: Pietro Greco
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319720325
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 373

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This book is a distinctively original biography of Galileo Galilei, probably the last eclectic genius of the Italian Renaissance, who was not only one of the greatest scientists ever, but also a philosopher, a theologian, and a man of great literary, musical, and artistic talent – “The Tuscan Artist”, as the poet John Milton referred to him. Galileo was exceptional in simultaneously excelling in the Arts, Science, Philosophy, and Theology. These diverse aspects of his life were closely intertwined; indeed, it may be said that he personally demonstrated that human culture is not divisible, but rather one, with a thousand shades. Galileo also represented the bridge between two historical epochs. As the philosopher Tommaso Campanella, a contemporary of Galileo, recognized at the time, Galileo was responsible for ushering in a new age, the Modern Age. This book, which is exceptional in the completeness of its coverage, explores all aspects of the life of Galileo, as a Tuscan artist and giant of the Renaissance, in a stimulating and reader-friendly way.

Author: Karl Baedeker (Firm)
Publisher:
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Category : Italy
Languages : en
Pages : 718

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