Kategoria BISAC: Art >> History - Renaissance

Deftly weaving together art, architecture, history, theology, and much else, Da Vinci's Ghost is a first-rate intellectual enchantment."--Charles Mann, author of 1493

Da Vinci didn't summon Vitruvian Man out of thin air. He was inspired by the idea originally formulated by the Roman architect...

A Companion to Renaissance and Baroque Art provides a diverse, fresh collection of accessible, comprehensive essays addressing key issues for European art produced between 1300 and 1700, a period that might be termed the beginning of modern history.

• Presents a collection of original, in-depth essays from art experts that address various aspects of European visual arts produced from circa 1300 to 1700
• Divided into five broad conceptual headings: Social-Historical Factors in Artistic Production; Creative Process and Social Stature of the Artist; The Object: Art...

Die Geschichte der Wissenschaften ist eine Geschichte der Verbildlichung. Der Band stellt zwei Fallbeispiele fruhneuzeitlicher Visualisierungen astronomischen Wissens vor: eine monumentale Spiegelsonnenuhr von 1644 und ein Buch uber den Planeten Venus von 1728. Es wird gezeigt, dass eine erfolgreiche Rezeptionsgeschichte unter Umstanden weniger von der Korrektheit des visualisierten Wissens abhangig war, sondern vielmehr durch die jeweiligen Strategien der Verbildlichung und Evidenzerzeugung beeinflusst wurde. Die Untersuchung der Problemfelder der ausbleibenden Rezeption und des...

Die niederlandische Stillebenmalerei des 17. Jahrhunderts nahm aktiv an den naturphilosophischen und naturwissenschaftlichen Diskursen der Zeit teil, dennoch wird sie in der Forschung bis heute vereinfachend als "realistisch-abbildende" Kunst bezeichnet. Hier ist eine Rehabilitierung des Begriffs "Mimesis" dringend notwendig geworden. Die Autorin unternimmt einen Neustart der Diskussion, der starker auf die historische Diskussion des Natur- und Bildbegriffs zuruckgreift. So fragt sie, inwiefern im 17. Jahrhundert mimetische Strukturen als ein biotisches Vermogen zur Reproduktion verstanden...

Der nach 1600 aufkommende Realismus in der niederlandischen Landschaftsmalerei ist in der Kunstgeschichtsforschung oft auf die neue politische Unabhangigkeit der Vereinigten Niederlande bezogen worden. So erscheint das kunstlerische Interesse an spezifisch einheimischen Bildthemen als Ausdruck einer burgerlichen Identitatssuche im Zuge eines wachsenden Selbstbewusstseins der jungen Republik. Doch wie wirkte diese Landschaftskunst an nationalisierenden Prozessen mit? Inwieweit ist die Popularisierung identitatsstiftender Vorstellungsbilder mit der Etablierung stereotyper Landschaftsbilder...

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Award-winning lecturer Kenneth R. Bartlett applies his decades of experience teaching the Italian Renaissance to this beautifully illustrated overview. In his introductory Note to the Reader, Bartlett first explains why he chose Jacob Burckhardt's classic narrative to guide students through the complex history of the Renaissance and then provides his own contemporary interpretation of that narrative. Over seventy color illustrations, genealogies of important Renaissance families, eight maps, a list of popes, a timeline of events, a bibliography, and an index are included.

From one of Britain s most respected art historians, art critic ofThe Guardian the galvanizing story of a sixteenth-century clash of titans, the two greatest minds of the Renaissance, working side by side in the same room in a fierce competition.
In 1504, the informal rivalry between two of the most celebrated artists in Florence became a direct contest. Michelangelo was commissioned to paint a scene from the ancient battle of Cascina on a wall of the Palazzo Vecchio in the same room where Leonardo da Vinci had already been commissioned to paint a scene from another great...

In this visually stunning and much anticipated book, acclaimed art historian Joseph Koerner casts the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Bruegel in a completely new light, revealing how the painting of everyday life was born from what seems its polar opposite: the depiction of an enemy hell-bent on destroying us.

Supreme virtuoso of the bizarre, diabolic, and outlandish, Bosch embodies the phantasmagorical force of painting, while Bruegel, through his true-to-life landscapes and frank depictions of peasants, is the artistic avatar of the familiar and ordinary. But despite their...

Today few would think of astronomy and astrology as fields related to theology. Fewer still would know that physically absorbing planetary rays was once considered to have medical and psychological effects. But this was the understanding of light radiation held by certain natural philosophers of early modern Europe, and that, argues Mary Quinlan-McGrath, was why educated people of the Renaissance commissioned artworks centered on astrological themes and practices. Influences is the first book to reveal how important Renaissance artworks were designed to be not only beautiful but...

During the early modern period there was a natural correspondence between how artists might benefit from the knowledge of mathematics and how mathematicians might explore, through advances in the study of visual culture, new areas of enquiry that would uncover the mysteries of the visible world. This volume makes its contribution by offering new interdisciplinary approaches that not only investigate perspective but also examine how mathematics enriched aesthetic theory and the human mind. The contributors explore the portrayal of mathematical activity and mathematicians as well as their...