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  • Iconology, Neoplatonism, and the Arts in the Renaissance

    Edited by Berthold Hub, Sergius Kodera ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Art History
    The mid-twentieth century saw a change in paradigms of art history: iconology. The main claim of this novel trend in art history was that renowned Renaissance artists (such as Botticelli, Leonardo, or Michelangelo) created imaginative syntheses between their art and contemporary cosmology, philosophy, theology, and magic.The Neoplatonism in the books by Marsilio Ficino and Giovanni Pico della ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Images of Sex and Desire in Renaissance Art and Modern Historiography

    Edited by Angeliki Pollali, Berthold Hub ...
    Series series Visual Culture in Early Modernity
    Studies on gender and sexuality have proliferated in the last decades, covering a wide spectrum of disciplines. This collection of essays offers a metanarrative of sexuality as it has been recently embedded in the art historical discourse of the European Renaissance. It revisits ‘canonical’ forms of visual culture, such as painting, sculpture and a number of emblematic manuscripts. The ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

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  • Life in the Renaissance

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    Here, award-winning historian Charles L. Mee Jr. explores life in Renaissance Italy - from the ascendancy of Florence and the Medicis to the genius of Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci. Through wars and violence to festivals and feasts, Mee examines the people - artists, clergy, courtiers, merchants, scholars, and women - who fashioned the cradle for the rebirth of the Western world. ... Read more

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  • Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi

    by Giorgio Vasari ...
    46 illustrations, some color, some black-and-white. Volume 1 of Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Scultptors and Architects According to Wikipedia: "Giorgio Vasari (30 July 1511 27 June 1574) was an Italian painter, architect, writer and historian, most famous today for his Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, considered the ideological foundation of art-historical ... Read more

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  • The Noisy Renaissance

    Sound, Architecture, and Florentine Urban Life

    by Niall Atkinson ...
    From the strictly regimented church bells to the freewheeling chatter of civic life, Renaissance Florence was a city built not just of stone but of sound as well. An evocative alternative to the dominant visual understanding of urban spaces, The Noisy Renaissance examines the premodern city as an acoustic phenomenon in which citizens used sound to navigate space and society.Analyzing a range of ... Read more

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  • A Short History of the Italian Renaissance

    by Kenneth R. Bartlett ...
    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 ... Read more

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  • Federico Barocci

    Inspiration and Innovation in Early Modern Italy

    Edited by Judith W. Mann ...
    Series series Visual Culture in Early Modernity
    Reviewers of a recent exhibition termed Federico Barocci (ca. 1533–1612), 'the greatest artist you’ve never heard of'. One of the first original iconographers of the Counter Reformation, Barocci was a remarkably inventive religious painter and draftsman, and the first Italian artist to incorporate extensive color into his drawings. The purpose of this volume is to offer new insights into Barocci’s ... Read more

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  • Raphael’s Ostrich

    by Una Roman D’Elia ...
    Raphael’s Ostrich begins with a little-studied aspect of Raphael’s painting—the ostrich, which appears as an attribute of Justice, painted in the Sala di Costantino in the Vatican. Una Roman D’Elia traces the cultural and artistic history of the ostrich from its appearances in ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs to the menageries and grotesque ornaments of sixteenth-century Italy. Following the complex ... Read more

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  • Armour and Masculinity in the Italian Renaissance

    by Carolyn Springer ...
    During the Italian Wars of 1494 to 1559, with innovations in military technology and tactics, armour began to disappear from the battlefield. Yet as field armour was retired, parade and ceremonial armour grew increasingly flamboyant. Displaced from its utilitarian function of defense but retained for symbolic uses, armour evolved in a new direction as a medium of artistic expression.Luxury armour ... Read more

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  • The Agency of Things in Medieval and Early Modern Art

    Materials, Power and Manipulation

    Edited by Grażyna Jurkowlaniec, Ika Matyjaszkiewicz, Zuzanna Sarnecka ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Art History
    This volume explores the late medieval and early modern periods from the perspective of objects. While the agency of things has been studied in anthropology and archaeology, it is an innovative approach for art historical investigations. Each contributor takes as a point of departure active things: objects that were collected, exchanged, held in hand, carried on a body, assembled, cared for or ... Read more

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  • The Ashgate Research Companion to Giorgio Vasari

    Edited by David J. Cast ...
    Series series Routledge Art History and Visual Studies Companions
    The Ashgate Research Companion to Giorgio Vasari brings together the world's foremost experts on Vasari as well as up-and-coming scholars to provide, at the 500th anniversary of his birth, a comprehensive assessment of the current state of scholarship on this important-and still controversial-artist and writer. The contributors examine the life and work of Vasari as an artist, architect, courtier, ... Read more

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