Kategoria BISAC: Art >> History - Baroque & Rococo

Starting with Brunelleschi's invention of perspective and Galileo's invention of the telescope--two inaugural moments in the history of vision, from two apparently distinct provinces, art and science--this volume of essays by noted art, architecture, science, philosophy, and literary historians teases out the multiple strands of the discourse about sight in the early modern period. Looking at Leonardo and Gallaccini, at botanists, mathematicians, and artists from Dante to Durer to Shakespeare, and at photography and film as pointed modern commentaries on early modern seeing, Vision and...

Giovanni Battista Piranesi was one of the most important artists eighteenth-century Europe produced. But Piranesi was more than an artist; he was an engraver and printmaker, architect, antiquities dealer, archaeologist, draftsman, publisher, bookseller, and author. In Piranesi's Lost Words, Heather Hyde Minor considers Piranesi the author and publisher, focusing on his major publications from 1756 to his death in 1778. Piranesi designed and manufactured twelve beautiful, large-format books combining visual and verbal content over the course of his lifetime. While the images from...

The British School of Sculpture, c. 1760 1832 represents the first edited collection exploring one of the most significant moments in British art history, returning to centre stage a wide range of sculpture considered for the first time by some of the most important scholars in the field. Following a historical and historiographical introduction by the editors, situating British sculpture in relation to key events and developments in the period, and the broader scholarship on British art more generally in the period and beyond, the book contains nine wide-ranging case...

Rubens & the Eloquence of Drawing examines the formative graphic practice of the preeminent Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) within the context of early modern concepts of eloquence, especially in the early 17th-century literary and philosophical circles of Justus Lipsius (1547-1606). Taking Rubens s drawings seriously as erudite models of emulation and disegno in the Italian Renaissance tradition, the book reconsiders Rubens s drawings during his Roman period and just after he returned home to Antwerp, c. 1600-1620, in light of early modern, northern...