Kategoria BISAC: Art >> History - Renaissance

This is the first study to characterize the architectural patronage of Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni (1667-1740), and to identify twelve architects during his half century of patronage in his Ecclesiastical court of the Cancelleria. Most eminent among them were Filippo Juvarra and Domenico Gregorini. Commercial and private theaters in the palace are located from archival data, room measurements, drawings, diary accounts, Correspondence of the French Academy, and palimpsests of architectural details. The size, shape, appearance, capacity, and location of Filippo Juvarra's theater are discussed....

Women, Gender and Art in Asia, c. 1500 1900 brings women's engagements with art into a pan-Asian dialogue with essays that examine women as artists, commissioners, collectors, and subjects from India, Southeast Asia, Tibet, China, Korea, and Japan, from the sixteenth to the early twentieth century. The artistic media includes painting, sculpture, architecture, textiles, and photography. The book is broadly concerned with four salient questions: How unusual was it for women to engage directly with art? What factors precluded more women from doing so? In what ways did women's...

Intricate, expressive, given to grandeur and even excess, Baroque art as a style is inseparable from the meanings it seeks to convey. Vernon Hyde Minor's Baroque Visual Rhetoric probes this combination of style and message and - equally importantly - the methodological basis on which the critical art historian comes to establish that meaning.

Drawing on a breathtaking range of critical literature, from the German founders of art history as an academic discipline to Heidegger, Derrida, and de Man, Minor considers the issue through a series of Baroque masterpieces: Bernini's...

Current developments in the digital organization of knowledge give rise to an in-depth study in the humanities of the history of the cultural practice of capturing and storing information.

This interdisciplinary anthology discusses current research issues on historical theories and practices of information processing in art history research. Using examples from the period between the end of the 17^th century and the early 19^th century, the contributions investigate how in Europe new ideas of storing knowledge and processing data were reflected in the fine arts...

Als Urtext der europaischen Literatur ist Dantes Commedia seit Jahrhunderten Gegenstand einer exegetischen Tradition, die zahllose Kommentare und Auslegungen, aber auch wirkmachtige figurative Interpretationen hervorgebracht hat. Der Dichter selbst war mit der Kunst seiner Zeit bestens vertraut, die Bildhaftigkeit seiner Sprache hat Generationen von Lesern Holle, Lauterungsberg und Paradies plastisch vor Augen gestellt und groe Kunstler, von Giotto bis zu Blake, Delacroix und Rodin, zu immer neuer Auseinandersetzung motiviert.

Der erste Band der "Refigurationen" stellt...

While short in words, Discourse on Voluntary Servitude speaks volumes to all those who value liberty on all levels, but who are currently trapped in the yoke of oppression by the many tyrants in every government and institution. This book may be considered the flip-side to Machiavelli's The Prince, which teaches would-be dictators how to acquire and maintain power over people and institutions.

The introduction sets out the state of art history today as it undergoes the profound shift of a 'global turn. Particular focus is given to British India, which represents a shift from the usual attention paid to Orientalism and French art in this period. The sources and debates on this topic have never before been brought together in a satisfactory way and this book will...

We might hope for some answers from the experts, but they are confounded too. Even with the modern technology available, they do not know why there is no evidence of any preliminary drawing; why there are shifts in focus; and why his pictures are unusually blurred....