Goya Or The Tortuous Road To Understanding

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Goya Or The Tortuous Road To Understanding

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Author : Lion Feuchtwanger
language : en
Publisher: Makom Publications
Release Date : 2013-10-10

Goya Or The Tortuous Road To Understanding written by Lion Feuchtwanger and has been published by Makom Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-10 with categories.

Lion Feuchtwanger's majestic historical novel is set in turbulent Spain of the Napoleonic era. Its hero is the artist Francisco Goya-and his fabulous affair with Gayetana, Duchess of Alba, is the bright central thread of its rich tapestry. Goya, one of the immortals of art, was involved in the fate of Spain at a turning point in his country's history; and the story of his love for the Duchess of Alba, Spain's great lady, reflects that. The Duchess, lively and brilliant, "bad and beautiful," was the subject of two of his most controversial canvases, the Maja Nude and the Maja Clothed. It was a romance in the great tradition, a public scandal even for a scandal-ridden Madrid. Yet Goya's life, his work, and the difficult intellectual struggle he engaged in throughout his life challenging his human integrity and worth is far more than being merely the province of love affairs, however glamorous. Goya transitions from fashionable court painter for Charles IV to a painter with a political conscience who used his art to protest Spain's oppressive and cruel policies. The infamous Spanish Inquisition, in particular, takes up a significant part of both Goya's life and its trying predicament, and likewise of Feuchtwanger's novel about him: the tortures, the trials and executions, as well as the bullfights, the carnivals, the splendor of the court and the Escorial, the vast royal palace.

Stumbling Along The Tortuous Road To Unanticipated Nobility

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Author : Daniel Carleton Gajdusek
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996

Stumbling Along The Tortuous Road To Unanticipated Nobility written by Daniel Carleton Gajdusek and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Abnormalities, Human categories.

Francisco De Goya

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Author : Sarah Carr-Gomm
language : en
Publisher: Grange Books
Release Date : 2005

Francisco De Goya written by Sarah Carr-Gomm and has been published by Grange Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Electronic book categories.

Francisco Goya (1746-1828) was recognised from a very early age as the leading artist in Spain, rising to become the official portraitist of the Spanish Court. He was famed for the quality and speed at which he executed his drawings, and his etchings are of extraordinary delicacy. His use of chiaroscuro in his dark, intense paintings influenced many artists, including Manet. This monograph presents the essential works of this pioneering artist, today considered the father of modern art. Book jacket.

Spain A Global History

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Author : Luis Francisco Martinez Montes
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-11-12

Spain A Global History written by Luis Francisco Martinez Montes and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-12 with categories.

From the late fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries, the Hispanic Monarchy was one of the largest and most diverse political communities known in history. At its apogee, it stretched from the Castilian plateau to the high peaks of the Andes; from the cosmopolitan cities of Seville, Naples, or Mexico City to Santa Fe and San Francisco; from Brussels to Buenos Aires and from Milan to Manila. During those centuries, Spain left its imprint across vast continents and distant oceans contributing in no minor way to the emergence of our globalised era. This was true not only in an economic sense-the Hispano-American silver peso transported across the Atlantic and the Pacific by the Spanish fleets was arguably the first global currency, thus facilitating the creation of a world economic system-but intellectually and artistically as well. The most extraordinary cultural exchanges took place in practically every corner of the Hispanic world, no matter how distant from the metropolis. At various times a descendant of the Aztec nobility was translating a Baroque play into Nahuatl to the delight of an Amerindian and mixed audience in the market of Tlatelolco; an Andalusian Dominican priest was writing the first Western grammar of the Chinese language in Fuzhou, a Chinese city that enjoyed a trade monopoly with the Spanish Philippines; a Franciscan friar was composing a piece of polyphonic music with lyrics in Quechua to be played in a church decorated with Moorish-style ceilings in a Peruvian valley; or a multi-ethnic team of Amerindian and Spanish naturalists was describing in Latin, Spanish and local vernacular languages thousands of medicinal plants, animals and minerals previously unknown to the West. And, most probably, at the same time that one of those exchanges were happening, the members of the School of Salamanca were laying the foundations of modern international law or formulating some of the first modern theories of price, value and money, Cervantes was writing Don Quixote, Velázquez was painting Las Meninas, or Goya was exposing both the dark and bright sides of the European Enlightenment. Actually, whenever we contemplate the galleries devoted to Velázquez, El Greco, Zurbarán, Murillo or Goya in the Prado Museum in Madrid; when we visit the National Palace in Mexico City, a mission in California, a Jesuit church in Rome or the Intramuros quarter in Manila; or when we hear Spanish being spoken in a myriad of accents in the streets of San Francisco, New Orleans or Manhattan we are experiencing some of the past and present fruits of an always vibrant and still expanding cultural community. As the reader can infer by now, this book is about how Spain and the larger Hispanic world have contributed to world history and in particular to the history of civilisation, not only at the zenith of the Hispanic Monarchy but throughout a much longer span of time.

Jackson Pollock

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Author : Pepe Karmel
language : en
Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art
Release Date : 1999

Jackson Pollock written by Pepe Karmel and has been published by The Museum of Modern Art this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Art categories.

Published to accompany the exhibition Jackson Pollock held the Museum of Modern Art, New York, from 1 November 1998 to 2 February 1999.

The Burlington Magazine

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1949

The Burlington Magazine written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1949 with Art categories.

Burlington Magazine For Connoisseurs

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1960

Burlington Magazine For Connoisseurs written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1960 with Art categories.

The Essential Gombrich

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Author : Richard Woodfield
language : en
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Release Date : 1996-09-05

The Essential Gombrich written by Richard Woodfield and has been published by Phaidon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-09-05 with Art categories.

An accessible selection of Professor Gombrich's best and most characteristic writing.

European Drawings 2

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Author : George R. Goldner
language : en
Publisher: Getty Publications
Release Date : 1992-10-08

European Drawings 2 written by George R. Goldner and has been published by Getty Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-10-08 with Drawing categories.

The Getty Museum's collection of drawings was begun in 1981 with the purchase of a Rembrandt nude and has since become an important repository of European works from the fifteenth through the nineteenth century. As in the first volume devoted to the collection (published in 1988 in English and Italian editions), the text is here organized first by national school, then alphabetically by artist, with individual works arranged chronologically. For each drawing, the authors provide a discussion of the work's style, dating, iconography, and relationship to other works, as well as provenance and a complete bibliography.

The Story Of Seville

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Author : Walter M. Gallichan
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-09-04

The Story Of Seville written by Walter M. Gallichan and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-04 with Fiction categories.

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Story of Seville" by Walter M. Gallichan. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.