Kategoria BISAC: Art >> History - Baroque & Rococo

This is a groundbreaking examination of one of the most important artists in the Western tradition by one of the leading art historians and critics of the past half-century. In his first extended consideration of the Italian Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1573-1610), Michael Fried offers a transformative account of the artist's revolutionary achievement. Based on the A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts delivered at the National Gallery of Art, The Moment of Caravaggio displays Fried's unique combination of interpretive brilliance, historical seriousness, and...

• Explores themes including: style or the visuality of art; artistic practices and production; artistic communication as projected and experienced; and artists' interactions with the ancient world and with the new sciences
  
• Examines the work of key painters, architects and sculptors from this period, including Caravaggio, Bernini, Guarini and Poussin
  
• Published in the expanding...

Americans have long had a taste for the art and culture of Holland's Golden Age. As a result, the United States can boast extraordinary holdings of Dutch paintings. Celebrated masters such as Rembrandt van Rijn, Johannes Vermeer, and Frans Hals are exceptionally well represented, but many fine paintings by their contemporaries can be found as well. In this groundbreaking volume, fourteen noted American and Dutch scholars examine the allure of seventeenth-century Dutch painting to Americans over the past centuries. The authors of Holland's Golden Age in America explain in lively...

Was eigentlich bedeutet "Nachahmung der Natur"? Im Horizont dieser Frage rekonstruiert das Buch paradigmatische Verschrankungen von kunstlerischer Praxis, Bildtheorie und Naturwissen. Im Zentrum stehen dabei Naturabgusse und Fossilien sowie das Zeichnen und angewandte Perspektive. Zu den Protagonisten gehoren Kunstler wie Wenzel Jamnitzer und Bernard Palissy, Sammler wie Ferrante Imperato und Rudolf II. oder Autoren wie Fabio Colonna und Francois Niceron. Die kontrastive Gegenuberstellung von Verfahren indexikalischer Bildgebung und Spielarten der zeichnerischen Konstruktion gibt neue...

Until relatively recently, most scholars considered the notion of a Catholic enlightenment either oxymoronic or even illusory, since the received wisdom was that the Catholic Church was a tireless and indefatigable enemy of modernist progress. According to Christopher Johns, however, the eighteenth-century papacy recognized the advantages of engaging with certain aspects of enlightenment thinking, and many in the ecclesiastical hierarchy, both in Italy and abroad, were sincerely interested in making the Church more relevant in the modern world and, above all, in reforming the various...

Authored by major scholars in the field, the catalogue presents each drawing along with a concise...