Pisa History Monuments Art
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Pisa History Monuments Art
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Author : Riccardo Oldani
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Pisa History Monuments Art written by Riccardo Oldani and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Travel categories.
Pisa
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Author : Giuliano Valdes
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
Pisa written by Giuliano Valdes and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Travel categories.
Discover Europe¿s tourist cities with The Gold Guides. . Easy-reading, informative text . Full-colour photographs & illustrations . Specially-created street guides and monument maps . Practical pocket size
A Brief History Of The Leaning Tower Of Pisa
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Author : Piero Pierotti
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007-01-01
A Brief History Of The Leaning Tower Of Pisa written by Piero Pierotti and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-01-01 with categories.
The Tower Of Pisa
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Author : J.B. Burland
language : en
Publisher: CRC Press
Release Date : 2020-08-26
The Tower Of Pisa written by J.B. Burland and has been published by CRC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-26 with Technology & Engineering categories.
The Leaning Tower of Pisa is known worldwide for its five-degree lean. The Tower is the Campanile of the Cathedral, which together with the Baptistry and Cemetery form a breath-taking collection of monuments which are regarded as supreme examples of early Renaissance Romanesque architecture. In March 1990 the Tower was closed to the public as it was declared unsafe and close to collapse. A Commission was set up by the Italian Government with the task of developing and implementing stabilization measures. This book begins with a brief description of the history of the Tower and its construction. The reader is then introduced to the huge challenges faced by the Commission in designing and implementing appropriate stabilization measures whilst at the same time satisfying the demanding requirements of conserving a world heritage monument. In particular, two historical studies are described which proved to be most valuable in arriving at suitable stabilization measures. The first was a deduction of the history of inclination of the tower during and subsequent to construction. The results of this study were used to calibrate a sophisticated numerical model of the tower and the underlying very soft ground which proved vital in evaluating the effectiveness of various stabilization schemes. The second study was of measurements of movement made since 1911. This latter study revealed an unexpected mechanism of foundation movement which proved crucial in developing the temporary and permanent stabilization measures and which resulted in the Tower being re-opened to the public in June 2001. The book will appeal to both professionals and students in the fields of Architecture and Civil Engineering. It will also interest specialised audiences of geotechnical engineers and conservation architects. It may also be of wider interest to anyone planning to visit Pisa or who is intrigued as to what caused the Tower to lean and how it was stabilized.
Pisa Art And History
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Author : Roberto Donati
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987
Pisa Art And History written by Roberto Donati and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Art categories.
The Fine Arts In Italy In Their Religious Aspect Letters From Rome Naples Pisa C With An App
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Author : Athanase Coquerel
language : en
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Release Date : 2023-07-18
The Fine Arts In Italy In Their Religious Aspect Letters From Rome Naples Pisa C With An App written by Athanase Coquerel and has been published by Legare Street Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-18 with Art categories.
First published in 1865, this book provides an invaluable glimpse into Italian art and culture in the 19th century. Athanase Coquerel, a French Protestant theologian and art historian, traveled extensively throughout Italy and offers his impressions of the country's great art treasures and religious monuments. The book is a must-read for anyone interested in Italian art or cultural history. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Catalogue Of The Art Library South Kensington Museum
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Author : sir John Charles Robinson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1862
Catalogue Of The Art Library South Kensington Museum written by sir John Charles Robinson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1862 with categories.
Art Treasures In Italy
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Author : Bernard S. Myers
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1969
Art Treasures In Italy written by Bernard S. Myers and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with Art categories.
Story of the country's artistic heritage and showing where they may be found today.
Historical Handbook Of Italian Sculpture
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Author : Charles Callahan Perkins
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1882
Historical Handbook Of Italian Sculpture written by Charles Callahan Perkins and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1882 with Sculptors categories.
Nicola Giovanni Pisano
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Author : Anita Fiderer Moskowitz
language : en
Publisher: Harvey Miller
Release Date : 2005
Nicola Giovanni Pisano written by Anita Fiderer Moskowitz and has been published by Harvey Miller this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Architecture categories.
In the year 1260, Nicola Pisano, the sculptor who initiated the revival of classicizing ideals that would later form a major component of Italian Renaissance art, created a remarkable and unusual monument for the Baptistry of Pisa, a hexagonal pulpit supported by seven colorful columns and displaying on its parapet five visually compelling narrative reliefs; several years later he designed a second pulpit, this time for the cathedral of Siena. Toward the end of the century, his son Giovanni received a pulpit commission for the parish church of Sant'Andrea, Pistoia, to be followed a few years later (c. 1302) by another one for the cathedral of Pisa. These four extraordinary monuments, each building upon both older traditions and its own immediate predecessors, yet each a highly innovative and original solution, are the primary subject of this book. The pulpits by Nicola and Giovanni Pisano were produced during a period of enormous economic, intellectual, cultural and spiritual flux. The expanded body of knowledge that resulted from the rise of Scholasticism-a theological-intellectual current that, beginning in the French cathedral schools of the twelfth century, attempted to reconcile Christian faith with the newly valued ideals of observation and reason, in short, to synthesize Christian and classical learning--found expression in new themes and naturalistic motifs abounding in painting, book illumination and sculpture, and in religious and civic iconography. In contrast to the emphasis on transcendental experience of the earlier Middle Ages, the new urban-centered religious orders of the thirteenth-century, such as the Domincans and the Franciscans, fostered a more direct, empathetic relationship between ordinary mortals and God and his saints. The Pisano pulpits were profoundly informed by these new conditions and concerns, and in turn they contributed to changing perceptions about the natural world and the nature of religious experience. Indeed, these pulpits are among the earliest visual manifestations in Italy of the scholastic inclination to embrace a wide range of knowledge, for the narratives relating biblical history are augmented by representations of Virtues and Vices, Liberal Arts, and pagan prophetesses of antiquity. The sermons expounded from these and other urban pulpits were very much enhanced by the charisma of their preachers and the interplay between the verbal and the visual, both of which were expressed in the vernacular, that is, in the case of sermons no longer only in the remote Latin tongue, and in the case of visual imagery no longer employing the abstract forms and symbols of earlier periods. But preaching was by no means the sole function of these raised platforms; they were used for a variety of ceremonial occasions and, like the para-liturgical mystery and miracle plays that were becoming increasingly popular, they satisfied the needs for edification, diversion, and even entertainment, needs as compelling in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries as they are today. In this book, we explore in word and image these and other issues related to the pulpits of Nicola and Giovanni Pisano, both as individual masterpieces and as monuments within the larger context of pulpit traditions. Nicola and Giovanni, different as were their sculptural styles, were both consummate story-tellers and it is nothing less than astonishing to observe the formal devices employed to make those stories as compelling as possible: We shall thus witness varying interpretations of the narratives, differing iconographic emphases and formal devices, changing conceptions of the human figure, and the development of spatial awareness in the work of both father and son. By offering close readings of the narrative and figural iconography, and the sculptural form conceived to give them expression, this book invites the modern viewer-reader to follow the itinerary of their original audience, the worshiper standing before and walking around each pulpit. In addition, however, numerous close-up views of passages difficult to see in situ offer privileged access to details readily visible primarily to the sculptor at work rather than the standing or circumambulating spectator.