Venus And The Arts Of Love In Renaissance Florence
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Venus And The Arts Of Love In Renaissance Florence
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Author : Rebekah Compton
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2021-02-28
Venus And The Arts Of Love In Renaissance Florence written by Rebekah Compton and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-28 with Art categories.
In this volume, Rebekah Compton offers the first survey of Venus in the art, culture, and governance of Florence from 1300 to 1600. Organized chronologically, each of the six chapters investigates one of the goddess's divine attributes - her celestial splendor, rosy-hued complexion, enchanting fashions, green gardens, erotic anatomy, and gifts from the sea. Venus's attributes, including her starlight, jewelry, and shells, enhance her seductive powers, attracting attention and arousing desire through the calculated manipulation of materials in ways that are similar to the sensory impact of the visual arts. Showing how different discourses and disciplines can interact in the creation and reception of art, Compton examines the materials and techniques that artists used to fulfill and enhance the goddess's iconographic demands. Her book offers new insights on sight, seduction, and desire, as well as concepts of gender, sexuality, and viewership from both male and female perspectives in the early modern era.
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.
The Garden Of Love In Tuscan Art Of The Early Renaissance
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Author : Paul F. Watson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1979
The Garden Of Love In Tuscan Art Of The Early Renaissance written by Paul F. Watson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Art categories.
"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.
The Portrayal Of Love
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Author : Charles Dempsey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
The Portrayal Of Love written by Charles Dempsey and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Arts, Italian categories.
"Widely acknowledged as a prime manifestation of Florentine humanist culture under Lorenzo de' Medici, Botticelli's Primavera cannot be fully interpreted without considering the poetics that expressed the Laurentian cultural program and, in turn, the Renaissance itself. In this analysis Charles Dempsey examines the poetry written by Lorenzo and his literary clients in order to give definition to the cultural context in which the Primavera was created. A celebration of Love, the painting is shown to incorporate both public and private imaginative realms while embracing the ideal and the actual experiences of the present. The Primavera, depicting Venus as the spirit of Love and springtime, is simultaneously old-fashioned and modern, rooted in International-Style vernacular conventions and evincing a nascent classical vocabulary. After describing the profoundly humanist classical foundation to the invention of the Primavera, Dempsey identifies its genre with rustic song, then relates the painting to the conventions of vernacular love poetry. A close reading of the painting in relation to works by Lorenzo, Politian, Pulci, and other poets working to elevate vernacular expression by infusing native Tuscan with Latin forms suggests how the idea of Love portrayed by Botticelli in the figure of Venus incorporates not only the ancient springtime renovatio mundi but also the actual cultural renovation-- the Renaissance-- imagined and sponsored by Lorenzo the Magnificent"--Publisher's description.
A Short History Of Florence And The Florentine Republic
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Author : Brian Jeffrey Maxson
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2023-02-23
A Short History Of Florence And The Florentine Republic written by Brian Jeffrey Maxson and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-02-23 with History categories.
The innovative city culture of Florence was the crucible within which Renaissance ideas first caught fire. With its soaring cathedral dome and its classically-inspired palaces and piazzas, it is perhaps the finest single expression of a society that is still at its heart an urban one. For, as Brian Jeffrey Maxson reveals, it is above all the city-state – the walled commune which became the chief driver of European commerce, culture, banking and art – that is medieval Italy's enduring legacy to the present. Charting the transition of Florence from an obscure Guelph republic to a regional superpower in which the glittering court of Lorenzo the Magnificent became the pride and envy of the continent, the author authoritatively discusses a city that looked to the past for ideas even as it articulated a novel creativity. Uncovering passionate dispute and intrigue, Maxson sheds fresh light too on seminal events like the fiery end of oratorical firebrand Savonarola and Giuliano de' Medici's brutal murder by the rival Pazzi family. This book shows why Florence, harbinger and heartland of the Renaissance, is and has always been unique.
The Birth Of Venus
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Author : Sarah Dunant
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2004-11-30
The Birth Of Venus written by Sarah Dunant and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-11-30 with Fiction categories.
Alessandra Cecchi is not quite fifteen when her father, a prosperous cloth merchant, brings a young painter back from northern Europe to decorate the chapel walls in the family’s Florentine palazzo. A child of the Renaissance, with a precocious mind and a talent for drawing, Alessandra is intoxicated by the painter’s abilities. But their burgeoning relationship is interrupted when Alessandra’s parents arrange her marriage to a wealthy, much older man. Meanwhile, Florence is changing, increasingly subject to the growing suppression imposed by the fundamentalist monk Savonarola, who is seizing religious and political control. Alessandra and her native city are caught between the Medici state, with its love of luxury, learning, and dazzling art, and the hellfire preaching and increasing violence of Savonarola’s reactionary followers. Played out against this turbulent backdrop, Alessandra’s married life is a misery, except for the surprising freedom it allows her to pursue her powerful attraction to the young painter and his art. The Birth of Venus is a tour de force, the first historical novel from one of Britain’s most innovative writers of literary suspense. It brings alive the history of Florence at its most dramatic period, telling a compulsively absorbing story of love, art, religion, and power through the passionate voice of Alessandra, a heroine with the same vibrancy of spirit as her beloved city.
Art And Love In Renaissance Italy
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Author : Andrea Bayer
language : en
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art New York
Release Date : 2008
Art And Love In Renaissance Italy written by Andrea Bayer and has been published by Metropolitan Museum of Art New York this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Art 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.
Art Patronage Family And Gender In Renaissance Florence
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Author : Maria DePrano
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-02-22
Art Patronage Family And Gender In Renaissance Florence written by Maria DePrano and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-22 with Art categories.
This book examines a Renaissance Florentine family's art patronage, even for women, inspired by literature, music, love, loss, and religion.
Art And Love In Renaissance Italy
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Author : Andrea Bayer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Art And Love In Renaissance Italy written by Andrea Bayer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with categories.
Love And Marriage In Renaissance Florence
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Author : Caroline Campbell
language : en
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Release Date : 2009
Love And Marriage In Renaissance Florence written by Caroline Campbell and has been published by University of Washington Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Art categories.
Accompanying an exhibition at The Courtauld Gallery, this catalogue explores one of the most important and historically neglected art forms of Renaissance Florence: cassoni - pairs of chests that were lavishly decorated with precious metals and elaborate paintings and were often the most expensive of a whole suite of decorative objects commissioned to celebrate marriage alliances between powerful families.