Kategoria BISAC: Art >> History - Renaissance

L'arte di Paolo Uccello ha una profonditA prospettica. Si puO affermare ciO pensando non solo alla sua passione per quella tecnica rappresentativa che negli anni fiorentini in cui visse conobbe una rinascita esemplare grazie al contributo di Brunelleschi e dell'Alberti, ma anche considerando la densitA del suo stile e la cultura pittorica di cui era impregnato. Nel primo caso avviene che, osservando un suo quadro, si rimanga colpiti dall'eleganza fantasiosa della scena, e che poi, da quella sintesi in perfetto equilibrio, emergano un numero inaspettato di particolari che la rendono cosI...

Rather than take art as a stand-in for or reflection of some other historical event or social...

The fifteenth-century Italian artist Piero della Francesca painted a familiar world. Roads wind through hilly landscapes, run past farms, sheds, barns, and villages. This is the world in which Piero lived. At the same time, Piero's paintings depict a world that is distant. The subjects of his pictures are often Christian and that means that their setting is the Holy Land, a place Piero had never visited.

The Realism of Piero della Francesca studies this paradoxical aspect of Piero's art. It tells the story of an artist who could think of the local churches, palaces, and...

This book is the first study of the portico and its decorative program as a cultural phenomenon in Renaissance Italy. Focusing on a largely neglected group of porticoes decorated with painted pergolas that appeared in Rome and environs in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, it tells the story of how an element of the garden the pergola became a pictorial topos in portico decoration, and evolved, hand in hand with its real cousin in the garden, into an object for cultural emulation among the educated patrons of early modern Rome. The liminality of both the portico and the pergola...

Art historian and philosopher Edgar Wind completed his monograph on Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling frescos in 1936. Adopting a methodological approach developed by Aby Warburg, who was Wind's colleague in Hamburg, he analyzed Michelangelo's choice of themes. Although the work was complete, it was never published, and is presented now for the first time in printed form, accompanied by an extensive editor's postscript.

Rather than take art as a stand-in for or reflection of some other historical event or social...

Romeo & Juliet like you have never read it before; quick, fun, and easy to understand. Designed for 6-18+ actors, kids of all ages, or anyone who wants to enjoy and loosely understand Shakespeare's play.

What you will get:

• Fun
• 3 melodramatic modifications for group sizes:
  • 6-11
  • 9-13
  • 14-18+
• Actual lines from Shakespeare's play mixed in
• Creatively funny interpretations of the play
• A delightfully hilarious rendition that is easy for ADULTS to understand too
• A kid who loves Shakespeare...