Hidden Faces Covered Portraits Of The Renaissance
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Hidden Faces Covered Portraits Of The Renaissance
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Author : Alison Manges Nogueira
language : en
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Release Date : 2024-04-02
Hidden Faces Covered Portraits Of The Renaissance written by Alison Manges Nogueira and has been published by Metropolitan Museum of Art this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-04-02 with Art categories.
Many small Renaissance portraits were richly adorned with covers or backs bearing allegorical figures, mythological scenes, or emblems that celebrated the sitter and invited the viewer to decipher their meaning. Hidden Faces includes seventy objects, ranging in format from covered paintings to miniature boxes, that illuminate the symbiotic relationship between the portrait and its pair. Texts by thirteen distinguished scholars vividly illustrate that the other “faces” of these portraits represent some of the most innovative images of the Renaissance, created by masters such as Hans Memling and Titian. Uniting works that have in some cases been separated for centuries, this fascinating volume shows how the multifaceted format unveiled the sitter’s identity, both by physically revealing the portrait and reading the significance behind its cover.
Renaissance Faces
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Author : Lorne Campbell
language : en
Publisher: National Gallery London
Release Date : 2008
Renaissance Faces written by Lorne Campbell and has been published by National Gallery London this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Art categories.
"This survey traces the development of portrait painting in Northern and Southern Europe during the Renaissance, when the genre first flourished. Both regions developed their own distinct styles and techniques, but each was influenced by the other. Focusing on the relationship between artists of the north and south, renowned specialists analyse the notion of likeness - at that time based not only on accurate reference to posterity, but incorporating all aspects of human life, including propaganda, power, courtship, love, family, ambition and hierarchy. Essays and individual catalogue entries present new research on works by some of the greatest portraitists of the period, including Giovanni Bellini, Sandro Botticelli, Lucas Cranach, Albrecht Durer, Jan van Eyck, Hans Holbein and Titan, all magnificently illustrated."--Jacket.
The Moment Of Self Portraiture In German Renaissance Art
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Author : Joseph Leo Koerner
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1993
The Moment Of Self Portraiture In German Renaissance Art written by Joseph Leo Koerner and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Art categories.
So foundational is this invention to modern aesthetics, Koerner argues, that interpreting it takes us to the limits of traditional art-historical method. Self-portraiture becomes legible less through a history leading up to it, or through a sum of contexts that occasion it, than through its historical sight-line to the present. After a thorough examination of Durer's startlingly new self-portraits, the author turns to the work of Baldung, Durer's most gifted pupil, and demonstrates how the apprentice willfully disfigured Durer's vision. Baldung replaced the master's self-portraits with some of the most obscene and bizarre pictures in the history of art. In images of nude witches, animated cadavers, and copulating horses, Baldung portrays the debased self of the viewer as the true subject of art. The Moment of Self-Portraiture thus unfolds as passages from teacher to student, artist to viewer, reception, all within a culture that at once deified and abhorred originality.
Giuliano Da Sangallo And The Ruins Of Rome
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Author : Cammy Brothers
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2022-01-25
Giuliano Da Sangallo And The Ruins Of Rome written by Cammy Brothers and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-25 with Architecture categories.
"An illuminating reassessment of the architect whose innovative drawings of ruins shaped the enduring image of ancient Rome"--
The Loves Of The Artists
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Author : Jonathan Jones
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2013-05-23
The Loves Of The Artists written by Jonathan Jones and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-23 with History categories.
A sweeping, epic history of the Renaissance artists, seen through the lens of something that perhaps occupied their thoughts and influenced their art the most…sex. Taking Donatello's provocative reinvention of the nude as his starting point, Jonathan shows how the story of the Renaissance is the story of a sexual revolution. The great artists of the 15th and 16th century were not just visionaries, but lovers. Jonathan argues that the famous nudes of Michelangelo and Titian are not abstract images of ideal beauty, but erotic expressions of love and desire; and that in order to understand the Renaissance, we have to understand the sex lives of the men and women who defined it - men like Raphael, who obsessively painted his lover La Fornarina in the nude, Michelangelo, who made beautiful drawings of naked male bodies to present to the young man he adored, and Rembrandt, whose bedroom portraits of Hendrickje Stoffels are the frankest expressions of love anywhere in art.Sweeping from its origins in Florence in the mid-15th century to its culmination in the work of Rubens and Rembrandt in the 17th, The Loves of the Artistsshows that the Renaissance invented eroticism as we know it, and that the new ways of thinking about sex it engendered are crucial to understanding not only art but European culture as a whole.
The Image Of The Individual
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Author : Nicholas Mann
language : en
Publisher: British Museum Press
Release Date : 1998
The Image Of The Individual written by Nicholas Mann and has been published by British Museum Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Portrait painting, European categories.
These essays develop and challenge the supposition that the portrait in the Renaissance is connected with the 'cult of personality' which emerged in the 15th century and provoked people to record their features accurately.
Renaissance Portraits
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Author : Scala Group Staff
language : en
Publisher: Scala Books
Release Date : 2013-06-16
Renaissance Portraits written by Scala Group Staff and has been published by Scala Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-16 with categories.
The pervasive influence of religion during the Middle Ages belittled the individual, the value of human life and expression. Fifteenth century Italy was "the place where the notion of the individual was born," in the words of Jacob Burkhardt. Faces in particular, those mirrors of the soul, were depicted more realistically in part as a result of the perfecting of new techniques such as oil painting. This opulent collection includes masterpieces by Van Eyck, Tintoretto, Memling, Holbein, Leonardo, Botticelli, Cranach, Durer, El Greco, Piero della Francesca, Raphael among more than 100 artists represented. Text in English, German, French and Dutch. Cover image is Portrait of Bia de' Medici by Agnolo Bronzino, 1542.
Art And Love In Renaissance Italy
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Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
language : en
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Release Date : 2008
Art And Love In Renaissance Italy written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) and has been published by Metropolitan Museum of Art this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Art del Renaixement categories.
"Many famous artworks of the Italian Renaissance were made to celebrate love, marriage, and family. They were the pinnacles of a tradition, dating from early in the era, of commemorating betrothals, marriages, and the birth of children by commissioning extraordinary objects - maiolica, glassware, jewels, textiles, paintings - that were often also exchanged as gifts. This volume is the first comprehensive survey of artworks arising from Renaissance rituals of love and marriage and makes a major contribution to our understanding of Renaissance art in its broader cultural context. The impressive range of works gathered in these pages extends from birth trays painted in the early fifteenth century to large canvases on mythological themes that Titian painted in the mid-1500s. Each work of art would have been recognized by contemporary viewers for its prescribed function within the private, domestic domain."--BOOK JACKET.
Portraits Unmasked
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Author : Michele Robecchi
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2020-09-01
Portraits Unmasked written by Michele Robecchi and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-01 with Art categories.
The world's most famous portraits and the hidden stories behind their subjects are explored in this fascinating and highly entertaining book. Portraiture is one of the oldest and most studied genres of art. While most scholars will look at a painting's composition, style, and themes, often questions remain unanswered--who were these people and why were they painted? This entertaining book reveals the identities and lives of some of the most famous characters that populate art history--from the Renaissance to the 21st century. Readers will learn how the fifteen-year-old subject of da Vinci's Lady with an Ermine nearly destroyed a marriage; that van Dyck's depiction of Prudence in wild clothes is actually one of the most controversial aristocrats of the seventeenth century; and that Francis Bacon's character George Dyer was a man he met in a Soho nightclub. These and other stories behind works by Picasso, Klimt, Rubens, Warhol, and dozens of other artists show how portraiture remains one of the most enthralling genres. Based on art scholarship and conveyed in an accessible tone, these fascinating tales of power, lust, intrigue, jealousy, vengeance, and romance will help readers understand masterpieces of art history in an entirely new light.
The Hidden Life Of Renaissance Art
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Author : Clare Gibson
language : en
Publisher: Gardners Books
Release Date : 2007-01-01
The Hidden Life Of Renaissance Art written by Clare Gibson and has been published by Gardners Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-01-01 with Art categories.
Helps you learn how to decipher the hidden meanings beneath the surface of a Renaissance masterpiece, whether sacred, mythological, allegorical, or a portrait.