The Art of Describing: Dutch Art in the Seventeenth Century
ISBN: 9780226015132 / Angielski / Miękka / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) "The art historian after Erwin Panofsky and Ernst Gombrich is not only participating in an activity of great intellectual excitement; he is raising and exploring issues which lie very much at the centre of psychology, of the sciences and of history itself. Svetlana Alpers's study of 17th-century Dutch painting is a splendid example of this excitement and of the centrality of art history among current disciples. Professor Alpers puts forward a vividly argued thesis. There is, she says, a truly fundamental dichotomy between the art of the Italian Renaissance and that of the Dutch masters. . . ....
"The art historian after Erwin Panofsky and Ernst Gombrich is not only participating in an activity of great intellectual excitement; he is raising an...
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Rembrandt's Jews
ISBN: 9780226567372 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) There is a popular and romantic myth about Rembrandt and the Jewish people. One of history's greatest artists, we are often told, had a special affinity for Judaism. With so many of Rembrandt's works devoted to stories of the Hebrew Bible, and with his apparent penchant for Jewish themes and the sympathetic portrayal of Jewish faces, it is no wonder that the myth has endured for centuries. Rembrandt's Jews puts this myth to the test as it examines both the legend and the reality of Rembrandt's relationship to Jews and Judaism. In his elegantly written and engrossing tour of Jewish...
There is a popular and romantic myth about Rembrandt and the Jewish people. One of history's greatest artists, we are often told, had a special affini...
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The Sleep of Reason: Primitivism in Modern European Art and Aesthetics, 1725-1907
ISBN: 9780271018270 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Art historians have in the past narrowly defined primitivism, limiting their inquiry to examples of direct stylistic borrowing from African, Oceanic, or Native American imagery. The drawbacks of such an approach have become increasingly apparent, the most problematic being its perpetuation of the notion that certain traditions are indeed "primitive." Frances Connelly argues that "primitive" art was not a style at all, but a cultural construction by modern Europeans, a cluster of concepts principally forged during the Enlightenment concerning the nature of the origins of artistic... Art historians have in the past narrowly defined primitivism, limiting their inquiry to examples of direct stylistic borrowing from African, Oceani... |
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Caravaggio: The Art of Realism
ISBN: 9780271027180 / Angielski / Miękka / 183 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The dramatic realism of Caravaggio's art has fascinated viewers since the seventeenth century. Yet no prior monograph presents the thorough investigation of Caravaggio's "realism" ventured in John Varriano's remarkable book. Forgoing the "life and works" format of most earlier monographs, Varriano concentrates on uncovering the principles and practices--the intellect and the imagination--that guided Caravaggio's eye and brush as he made some of the most controversial paintings in the history of art. Caravaggio's irascible personality, libertine sexual preferences, and lawless, even... The dramatic realism of Caravaggio's art has fascinated viewers since the seventeenth century. Yet no prior monograph presents the thorough investi... |
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240,89 zł |
Art of Allegiance: Visual Culture and Imperial Power in Baroque New Spain
ISBN: 9780271029832 / Angielski / Twarda / 191 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The Art of Allegiance explores the ways in which Spanish imperial authority was manifested in a compelling system of representation for the subjects of New Spain during the seventeenth century. Michael Schreffler identifies and analyzes a corpus of "source" material--paintings, maps, buildings, and texts--produced in and around Mexico City that addresses themes of kingly presence and authority as well as obedience, loyalty, and allegiance to the crown. The Art of Allegiance opens with a discussion of the royal palace in Mexico City, now destroyed but known through... The Art of Allegiance explores the ways in which Spanish imperial authority was manifested in a compelling system of representation for th... |
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503,98 zł |
The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece
ISBN: 9780375759864 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) An Italian village on a hilltop near the Adriatic coast, a decaying palazzo facing the sea, and in the basement, cobwebbed and dusty, lit by a single bulb, an archive unknown to scholars. Here, a young graduate student from Rome, Francesca Cappelletti, makes a discovery that inspires a search for a work of art of incalculable value, a painting lost for almost two centuries. The artist was Caravaggio, a master of the Italian Baroque. He was a genius, a revolutionary painter, and a man beset by personal demons. Four hundred years ago, he drank and brawled in the taverns and streets of Rome,...
An Italian village on a hilltop near the Adriatic coast, a decaying palazzo facing the sea, and in the basement, cobwebbed and dusty, lit by a single ...
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Vermeer's Family Secrets: Genius, Discovery, and the Unknown Apprentice
ISBN: 9780415966641 / Angielski / Twarda / 472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Benjamin Binstock revolutionises how we think about Vermeer's work and life. Vermeer is famously a mystery in art: there is scant information on his life and training, and nothing to connect him to any students. What remains is the paintings themselves as well as some historical information and surmise.
Benjamin Binstock revolutionises how we think about Vermeer's work and life. Vermeer is famously a mystery in art: there is scant information on his l...
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249,88 zł |
The Death of the Baroque and the Rhetoric of Good Taste
ISBN: 9780521843416 / Angielski / Twarda / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) In late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century Rome, a rhetorical war raged among intellectuals in the attack and defense of language, literature, and the visual arts. This book examines the cultural upheaval that accompanied attacks on the baroque predilection for ornament, extended visual metaphors, grandiloquence, and mystical rapture. Rome's Academy of the Arcadians emerged as a potent social and cultural force in the final decade of the seventeenth century and throughout the eighteenth century provided a setting for arguments on artistic taste and reforms in literature and religion....
In late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century Rome, a rhetorical war raged among intellectuals in the attack and defense of language, literature, ...
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312,45 zł |
Arts & Humanities Through the Eras: The Age of the Baroque and Enlightenment (1600-1800)
ISBN: 9780787656973 / Angielski / Twarda / 600 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Profiling milestones and movements in the arts, literature, music and religion from a specific period, each volume in this set helps students and researchers understand the various disciplines of the humanities in relation to each other, as well as to history and culture. An overview of the period and a chronology of major world events begin each volume. Nine chapters follow covering the major branches of the humanities: architecture and design, dance, fashion, literature, music, philosophy, religion, theater and visual arts.
Profiling milestones and movements in the arts, literature, music and religion from a specific period, each volume in this set helps students and rese...
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640,40 zł |
Tables of Knowledge: Descartes in Vermeer's Studio
ISBN: 9780801444616 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Descartes believed that his analytic model applied to all fields of research and that all branches of science lead to truth. His many analogies with literature and art notwithstanding, Descartes offers an entry into knowledge that fails nevertheless to take into account how in the seventeenth century Dutch painters such as Vermeer similarly order a view of the world by concentrating on the properties of individual objects. Descartes's celebrated scientific method offers a protocol for conducting experiments; Harriet Stone argues that this method can also serve as a guide for classifying the...
Descartes believed that his analytic model applied to all fields of research and that all branches of science lead to truth. His many analogies with l...
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270,76 zł |
The Temple of Night at Schnau: Architecture, Music, and
ISBN: 9780871692580 / Angielski / Miękka / 257 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Between 1796 and 1800 Baron Peter von Braun, a rich businessman and manager of Vienna's court theaters, transformed his estate at Schonau into an English-style landscape park. Among several buildings with which he embellished his garden, the most remarkable and celebrated was the Temple of Night, a domed rotunda accessible only through a meandering rockwork grotto that led visitors to believe that their destination lay somewhere deep underground. A life-size statue of the goddess Night on a chariot pulled by two horses presided over the Temple, while from the dome, which depicted the night...
Between 1796 and 1800 Baron Peter von Braun, a rich businessman and manager of Vienna's court theaters, transformed his estate at Schonau into an Engl...
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260,35 zł |
Italian Baroque Art
ISBN: 9781405139663 / Angielski / Twarda / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This anthology presents classic and recent scholarship on Italian art from 1600-1750, highlighting the key debates with which art historians continue to grapple.
This anthology presents classic and recent scholarship on Italian art from 1600-1750, highlighting the key debates with which art historians continue ...
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553,31 zł |
Johann Paul Schor Und Die Internationale Sprache Des Barock
ISBN: 9783777435152 / Angielski / Twarda / 279 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Johann Paul Schor (1615-1674), born in Austria, became known as a very creative and independent assistant to Bernini and da Cortona in Rome. His monumental frescoes, drawings, objets dart, as well as event productions, played a major role in the spread of the Roman Baroque throughout Europe. German text. Der aus Innsbruck gebuertige Johann Paul Schor (1615-1674), der sich als hochst kreativer und eigenstandiger Mitarbeiter Gianlorenzo Berninis und Pietro da Cortonas in Rom einen Namen machte, begeisterte seine Zeitgenossen als Schopfer monumentaler Freskomalereien, begnadeter Zeichner,...
Johann Paul Schor (1615-1674), born in Austria, became known as a very creative and independent assistant to Bernini and da Cortona in Rome. His monum...
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195,74 zł |
The Emblem in Renaissance and Baroque Europe: Tradition and Variety: Selected Papers of the Glasgow International Emblem Conference, 13-17 August, 1990
ISBN: 9789004095885 / Angielski / Twarda / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The volume is a cross-section of contributions to the Glasgow International Emblem Conference 1990, and demonstrates the range of research currently under way into the emblem tradition in the Renaissance and Baroque periods and the variety of its development across the centuries in many European countries.
The seventeen papers are arranged here in broad national and thematic groupings, showing the emblem tradition in France, Italy, the Low Countries, Germany, Britain, within the field of alchemy, and extending into wider European traditions. The volume is generously illustrated, and an... The volume is a cross-section of contributions to the Glasgow International Emblem Conference 1990, and demonstrates the range of research currently u...
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825,45 zł |
The Cornucopian Mind and the Baroque Unity of the Arts
ISBN: 9780271027906 / Angielski / Miękka / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This comparative and interdisciplinary study focuses on a cluster of epoch-making themes that emerged in the late sixteenth century. Michelangelo and Giordano Bruno are taken as the founding fathers of the Baroque, and we see that beyond the Alps their lessons were echoed in Montaigne, Cervantes, and the Counter-Reformation culture of the Mediterranean basin. Maiorino shows that the common denominator that links the origins of the Baroque to its maturity is the concept of form as "process," which is then articulated into chapters on the formative unity of the arts, art forms at the... This comparative and interdisciplinary study focuses on a cluster of epoch-making themes that emerged in the late sixteenth century. Michelangelo a... |
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192,83 zł |
European Art of the Seventeenth Century
ISBN: 9780892369348 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The seventeenth century was the beginning of a new era of commercialism, in which artists increasingly catered to affluent collectors. This title highlights the most important artists, works, concepts, and theories of the period, accompanied by 400 full-colour illustrations.
The seventeenth century was the beginning of a new era of commercialism, in which artists increasingly catered to affluent collectors. This title high...
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120,53 zł |
Baroque
ISBN: 9780064300773 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This is a nonchronological introduction to Baroque, one of the great periods of European art. John Martin's descriptions of the essential characteristics of the Baroque help one to gain an understanding of the style. His illustrations are informative and he has clearly looked with a fresh eye at the works of art themselves. In addition to the more than 200 illustrations, the volume contains an appendix of translated documents.
This is a nonchronological introduction to Baroque, one of the great periods of European art. John Martin's descriptions of the essential characterist...
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286,34 zł |
Women and Portraits in Early Modern Europe: Gender, Agency, Identity
ISBN: 9780754656661 / Angielski / Twarda / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) As one of the first books to treat portraits of early modern women as a discrete subject, this volume considers the possibilities and limits of agency and identity for women in history and, with particular attention to gender, as categories of analysis for women's images. Its nine original essays on Italy, the Low Countries, Germany, France, and England deepen the usefulness of these analytical tools for portraiture. Among the book's broad contributions: it dispels false assumptions about agency's possibilities and limits, showing how agency can be located outside of conventional...
As one of the first books to treat portraits of early modern women as a discrete subject, this volume considers the possibilities and limits of agency...
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807,08 zł |
Rubens and the Archaeology of Myth, 1610-1620: Visual and Poetic Memory
ISBN: 9780754667711 / Angielski / Twarda / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Focusing on four Rubens paintings created between 1610 and 1620 a Prometheus Bound, The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus, Juno and Argus, and The Finding of Erichthonius a this book re-examines the artist's approach to classical mythology. These theoretically-informed readings provide a fuller understanding of the dynamics of Rubens's copious visual language, and can serve as methodological templates for looking at, and reading of, many other of his complex inventions. Even by the standards of erudition commonly applied to Rubens's oeuvre as a whole, these four paintings were created during...
Focusing on four Rubens paintings created between 1610 and 1620 a Prometheus Bound, The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus, Juno and Argus, and The Fi...
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755,01 zł |
Portraiture, Dynasty and Power: Art Patronage in Hanoverian Britain, 1714-1759
ISBN: 9781604976786 / Angielski / Miękka / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) |
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626,76 zł |