Kategoria BISAC: Art >> History - Renaissance

Sebastiano del Piombo (c.1485-1547) was a close associate and rival of the central artistic figures of the High Renaissance, notably Michelangelo and Raphael. After the death of Raphael and the departure of Michelangelo from Rome, Sebastiano became the dominant artistic personality in the city. Despite being one of most significant artistic figures of the period, he remains the last artist of major importance in the western canon about whom no recent work has been published in English.

In this study, Piers Baker-Bates approaches Sebastiano s career through analysis of the patrons...

Das hier erstmals vorgelegte Dresdner Durer-Manuskript bildet eine Erganzung zur Gesamtedition von Durers Proportionslehre (1528). Es handelt sich um eine Vorstufe des Werks von 1523, das Durer, wie er selbst mitteilt, "gebessert" habe. Die Ausgabe enthalt den bereits in einer Transkription vorliegenden Text, der hier zwecks aktualisiertem Verstandnisses in heutiges Deutsch ubertragen ist, mit wortphilologischen Anmerkungen und Kommentaren, ferner einen Katalog der bislang unpublizierten Zeichnungen und ein Fazit. Das Studium des Manuskriptes erhartet erneut die Annahme, dass es Durer...

Mit diesem Band liegt erstmalig eine vollstandige und kommentierte Ubersetzung des schriftstellerischen Hauptwerks Bernard Palissys (1510-1590 in deutscher Sprache vor, und damit einer der bedeutendsten altfranzosischen Texte der Fruhen Neuzeit.

Der Keramikkunstler, fur seine Abformungen von Tieren und Pflanzen im "Stil rustique" bekannt, behandelt in den Discours hydrologische, mineralogische und palaontologische Themenfelder der Geowissenschaften. Er pladiert fur eine induktive, fur seine Zeit fortschrittliche Naturforschung und verschrankt diese mit seiner Keramikkunst....

In the early modern period, before the establishment of a reliable postal system, letters faced risks of interception and delay. During the Reformation, the printing press threatened...

Learn to paint like the masters with Frank Covino

After years of intense study, calculation, and practice, Frank Covino has perfected the painting techniques used by 17th Century masters like Leonardo da Vinci to imbue their work with a sense of realism and life unmatched by other painters. Using a system based on a controlled palette of mixed values, Covino presents clear and detailed techniques for applying centuries-old methods for intentional, satisfying results.

With detailed text, photos, and illustrations, Covino explains the importance of accurate drawing, ideal...

Learn to paint like the masters with Frank Covino

After years of intense study, calculation, and practice, Frank Covino has perfected the painting techniques used by 17th Century masters like Leonardo da Vinci to imbue their work with a sense of realism and life unmatched by other painters. Using a system based on a controlled palette of mixed values, Covino presents clear and detailed techniques for applying centuries-old methods for intentional, satisfying results.

With detailed text, photos, and illustrations, Covino explains the importance of accurate drawing, ideal...

This collection of brief but insightful essays, though always returning to the author's central conviction that the quality of artistic endeavour depends not on individuals of genius but on the attitude of the public towards art itself, examines a wide variety of unique but related issues: the relationship between natural and artistic beauty; the genius of Da Vinci and Nicholas Poussin; the influence of femininity on European art; the importance of good criticism; art as a social phenomenon; the role of the passions; and a range of associated topics.

First published in 1919, A....

Rembrandt's stunning religious prints stand as evidence of the Dutch master's extraordinary skill as a technician and as a testament to his genius as a teller of tales. Here, several virtually unknown etchings, collected by the Feddersen family and now preserved for the ages at the University of Notre Dame, are made widely available in a lavishly illustrated volume. Building on the contributions of earlier Rembrandt scholars, noted art historian Charles M. Rosenberg illuminates each of the 70 religious prints through detailed background information on the artist's career as well as the...

During the Renaissance, artists from Italy to Flanders and England to Germany depicted nature in their religious art to intensify the spiritual experience of the viewer. Devotional manuscripts for personal or communal use--from small-scale prayer books to massive choir books--were...

This monograph is a study and catalogue of the artistic production of the Early Modern World including and evoking the so-called Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, plus an eighth, considered by scholars of the 15th and 16th centuries to be the Royal Monastery of El Escorial. Nowadays we often see announcements of worldwide votes to evaluate the inclusion of new monuments or buildings on a prestigious list, that of the Wonders of the World. This list, however, comes from a fascinating cultural tradition going back thousands of years, starting in the 3rd century BC in the Hellenistic period...

Completo e analitico studio sulla vita, il tempo e le opere del Pontormo, in questo primo volume dedicato ai grandi maestri dell'arte nella nuova collana Bookmoon Art. Probabilmente l'influsso del Vasari E stato l'elemento decisivo per creare l'immagine tradizionale del Pontormo sfinito dalla sua arte e giunto alla fine, come leggiamo dalle sue pagine, "morto dal dolore, restando in ultimo malissimo soddisfatto di se stesso." In realtA Vasari non lo pensava cosI e disse che quelle erano le parole di altri. Personalmente lo considerava un valentissimo pittore che morI "vecchio e molto...