Inventing The Renaissance Putto
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Inventing The Renaissance Putto
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Author : Charles Dempsey
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2001
Inventing The Renaissance Putto written by Charles Dempsey and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Art categories.
The figure of the putto (often portrayed as a mischievous baby) made frequent appearances in the art and literature of Renaissance Italy. Commonly called spiritelli, or sprites, putti embodied a minor species of demon, in their nature neither good
Mysterium Magnum
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Author : Regina Stefaniak
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2008
Mysterium Magnum written by Regina Stefaniak and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with History categories.
Drawing on the fifteenth century theology of Saint Joseph, classical visual sources, Ficinoa (TM)s commentary on the "Phaedrus" and "Symposium," and Dantea (TM)s "rime petrose," this book interprets Michelangeloa (TM)s Tondo Doni as a model of Ephesiansa (TM) a ~great sacramenta (TM) of marriage for the new Florentine republic.
Experiments With Body Agent Architecture
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Author : Alessandro Ayuso
language : en
Publisher: UCL Press
Release Date : 2022-03-31
Experiments With Body Agent Architecture written by Alessandro Ayuso and has been published by UCL Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-31 with Architecture categories.
Experiments with Body Agent Architecture puts forward the notion of body agents: non-ideal, animate and highly specific figures integrated with design to enact particular notions of embodied subjectivity in architecture. Body agents present opportunities for architects to increase imaginative and empathic qualities in their designs, particularly amidst a posthuman condition. Beginning with narrative writing from the viewpoint of a body agent, an estranged ‘quattrocento spiritello’ who finds himself uncomfortably inhabiting a digital milieu (or, as the spiritello calls it, ‘Il Regno Digitale’), the book combines speculative historical fiction and original design experiments. It focuses on the process of creating the multi-media design experiments, moving from the design of the body itself as an original prosthetic to architectural proposals emanating from the body. A fragmented history of the figure in architecture is charted and woven into the designs, with chapters examining Michelangelo’s enigmatic figures in his drawings for the New Sacristy in the early sixteenth century, Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s physically ephemeral ‘putti’ adorning chapels and churches in the seventeenth century, and Austrian artist-architect Walter Pichler’s personal and prescient figures of the twentieth century.
The Early Modern Child In Art And History
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Author : Matthew Knox Averett
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-10-06
The Early Modern Child In Art And History written by Matthew Knox Averett and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-06 with History categories.
Childhood is not only a biological age, it is also a social construct. The essays in this collection range chronologically from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century, and geographically across England, France, Germany, Italy and Spain. They chart the depictions of children in various media including painting, sculpture and the graphic arts.
Van Halen
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Author : John Scanlan
language : en
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Release Date : 2012-06-15
Van Halen written by John Scanlan and has been published by Reaktion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-15 with Music categories.
Van Halen are known for classic songs like “Runnin’ with the Devil,” "Panama,” and “Jump,” but also for the drama surrounding the exits of its former members. While many have attempted to discover the secrets of Van Halen through an analysis of their musical role models, John Scanlan looks at deeper aesthetic and philosophical influences in Van Halen, a groundbreaking account of this extraordinary band. Following the band’s pursuit of the art of artlessness, Scanlan describes how they characterize what historian Kevin Starr terms “Zen California”—a state of mind and way of being that above all celebrates the now, and in rock and roll terms refers to the unregulated expenditure of energy and youthful exuberance destined to extinguish itself. Scanlan sheds light on key events and influences—the decaying of Hollywood in the 1970s; Ted Templeman’s work as a producer at Sunset Sound Studios; Top Jimmy, a blues rock singer who performed at the Zero Zero club; and the building of Eddie Van Halen’s Hollywood Hills studio in 1983—that show how 1970s California was the only time and place that Van Halen could have emerged. Along the way, Scanlan also explores the relationship between David Lee Roth and Eddie Van Halen, the climate of Southern California and its relation to a sense of cultural exuberance, the echoes of Beat aesthetics in David Lee Roth’s attitude to time, Eddie Van Halen’s bebop sensibility, and the real roots of the so-called “Brown” sound. An illuminating look at a classic rock group and the cultural moment in which they came of age, Van Halen is a book for fans of the band and the history of rock and roll.
Birth Figures
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Author : Rebecca Whiteley
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2023-02-23
Birth Figures written by Rebecca Whiteley 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 2023-02-23 with Art categories.
The first full study of “birth figures” and their place in early modern knowledge-making. Birth figures are printed images of the pregnant womb, always shown in series, that depict the variety of ways in which a fetus can present for birth. Historian Rebecca Whiteley coined the term and here offers the first systematic analysis of the images’ creation, use, and impact. Whiteley reveals their origins in ancient medicine and explores their inclusion in many medieval gynecological manuscripts, focusing on their explosion in printed midwifery and surgical books in Western Europe from the mid-sixteenth to the mid-eighteenth century. During this period, birth figures formed a key part of the visual culture of medicine and midwifery and were widely produced. They reflected and shaped how the pregnant body was known and treated. And by providing crucial bodily knowledge to midwives and surgeons, birth figures were also deeply entangled with wider cultural preoccupations with generation and creativity, female power and agency, knowledge and its dissemination, and even the condition of the human in the universe. Birth Figures studies how different kinds of people understood childbirth and engaged with midwifery manuals, from learned physicians to midwives to illiterate listeners. Rich and detailed, this vital history reveals the importance of birth figures in how midwifery was practiced and in how people, both medical professionals and lay readers, envisioned and understood the mysterious state of pregnancy.
What Was History Painting And What Is It Now
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Author : Mark Salber Phillips
language : en
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date : 2019-10-10
What Was History Painting And What Is It Now written by Mark Salber Phillips and has been published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-10 with Art categories.
The dominant visual language of European painting from the Renaissance to the nineteenth century, history paintings were formidable in their monumental scale, ambitious moral lessons, and intricate narratives. With the rise of modernist avant-gardes, the genre receded from the forefront of artistic production into the realm of nostalgia. Yet history painting cast a shadow that would subtly colour even the works that sought to displace it. Exploring the resilience of this distinctive mode of visual representation, What Was History Painting and What Is It Now? brings together an internationally distinguished group of scholars to trace the endurance, adaptation, and mutation of history painting. These studies offer a reexamination of the fortunes of the genre from North America to Europe and Africa. Organized around illuminating themes, the book explores the creation of an audience attuned to the genre's didactic aims, the entry of history painting into the marketplace of commercial art and attractions, and the reimagination of the mode in response to the edicts of modern and contemporary art. Spanning the full range and diversity of history painting, this collection is a broad reconsideration of the tradition and the vibrant ways in which it resonates through the art of the present.
The Challenge Of Emulation In Art And Architecture
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Author : David Mayernik
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-04-01
The Challenge Of Emulation In Art And Architecture written by David Mayernik and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-01 with Architecture categories.
Emulation is a challenging middle ground between imitation and invention. The idea of rivaling by means of imitation, as old as the Aenead and as modern as Michelangelo, fit neither the pessimistic deference of the neoclassicists nor the revolutionary spirit of the Romantics. Emulation thus disappeared along with the Renaissance humanist tradition, but it is slowly being recovered in the scholarship of Roman art. It remains to recover emulation for the Renaissance itself, and to revivify it for modern practice. Mayernik argues that it was the absence of a coherent understanding of emulation that fostered the fissuring of artistic production in the later eighteenth century into those devoted to copying the past and those interested in continual novelty, a situation solidified over the course of the nineteenth century and mostly taken for granted today. This book is a unique contribution to our understanding of the historical phenomenon of emulation, and perhaps more importantly a timely argument for its value to contemporary practice.
Gardens Of Love And The Limits Of Morality In Early Netherlandish Art
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Author : Andrea Pearson
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2019-02-26
Gardens Of Love And The Limits Of Morality In Early Netherlandish Art written by Andrea Pearson and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-26 with Art categories.
In Gardens of Love and the Limits of Morality in Early Netherlandish Art, Andrea Pearson charts the moralization of human bodies in late medieval and early modern visual culture, through paintings by Jan van Eyck and Hieronymus Bosch, devotional prints and illustrated books, and the celebrated enclosed gardens of Mechelen among other works. Drawing on new archival evidence and innovative visual analysis to reframe familiar religious discourses, she demonstrates that depicted topographies advanced and sometimes resisted bodily critiques expressed in scripture, conduct literature, and even legislation. Governing many of these redemptive greenscapes were the figures of Christ and the Virgin Mary, archetypes of purity whose spiritual authority was impossible to ignore, yet whose mysteries posed innumerable moral challenges. The study reveals that bodily status was the fundamental problem of human salvation, in which artists, patrons, and viewers alike had an interpretive stake.
Receptions Of Antiquity Constructions Of Gender In European Art 1300 1600
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language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2015-06-24
Receptions Of Antiquity Constructions Of Gender In European Art 1300 1600 written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-24 with Art categories.
Receptions of Antiquity, Constructions of Gender in European Art, 1300-1600 presents scholarship in classical reception at its nexus with art history and gender studies. It considers the ways that artists, patrons, collectors, and viewers in late medieval and early modern Europe used ancient Greek and Roman art, texts, myths, and history to interact with and shape notions of gender. The essays examine Giotto's Arena Chapel frescoes, Michelangelo's Medici Chapel personifications, Giulio Romano's decoration of the Palazzo del Te, and other famous and lesser-known sculptures, paintings, engravings, book illustrations, and domestic objects as well as displays of ancient art. Visual responses to antiquity in this era, the volume demonstrates, bore a complex and significant relationship to the construction of, and challenges to, contemporary gender norms.