La Madonna di San Giorgio alla Costa
Title | La Madonna di San Giorgio alla Costa PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9788874616343 |
Giotto the Painter. Volume 1-3
Title | Giotto the Painter. Volume 1-3 PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Viktor Schwarz |
Publisher | Böhlau Wien |
Total Pages | 1454 |
Release | 2023-04-17 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 3205217357 |
Vol. 1: Life Giotto (1334) is the first European artist about whom it is possible to write following the schema of "life and work". The situation of the sources, however, is complicated: On Giotto's life, there are – on the one hand – biographical accounts from the mid-fourteenth century onwards that responded to various ideological requirements (patriotism, humanism, Renaissance ideology, cult of the artist); on the other, there is extensive documentary material from Giotto's lifetime, which seems to reflect less the biography of an artist than that of a bourgeois businessman resolutely climbing the social ladder. The present volume focuses on this second aspect of the Giotto figure's double life relating it to the form of existence of the pre-modern artist. Vol. 2: Works The paintings examined and contextualised in this volume are those secured for Giotto through early written sources. These sources also help to reconstruct the sequence of his works and artistic inventions as is plausible in the context of media culture in the decades around and after 1300: while Giotto was spiritually and intellectually formed in the sphere of the Florentine Dominicans, his artistic path began in Rome in the shadow of the Curia. The breakthrough to his own artistic concept came immediately before and during his work in Padua. In addition to prominent churchmen, ecclesiastical institutions, and the King of Naples, his clients were predominantly members of Italy's urban and financial elites. The adoption and further development of his inventions by other - especially Sienese - painters pressured him in his later years to try new approaches again. Vol. 3: Survival Giotto is considered by many to be the founder of modern painting. This thesis is discussed and modified in the present volume on an empirical basis. What emerges is that Giotto's impact cannot be reduced simply to the introduction of the study of nature. Rather, his art was involved in the development of pictorial idioms that were attuned to the skills and interests of their audiences. The new approaches in his painting contributed in particular to the possibility of examining and communicating psychological, narrative and allegorical content of great complexity outside the media of language and text, which not only changed the face of European art but certainly contributed to the intellectual opening of Western societies.
Giotto the Painter. Volume 2: Works
Title | Giotto the Painter. Volume 2: Works PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Viktor Schwarz |
Publisher | Böhlau Wien |
Total Pages | 595 |
Release | 2023-04-17 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 3205217314 |
The paintings examined and contextualised in this volume are those secured for Giotto through early written sources. These sources also help to reconstruct the sequence of his works and artistic inventions as is plausible in the context of media culture in the decades around and after 1300: while Giotto was spiritually and intellectually formed in the sphere of the Florentine Dominicans, his artistic path began in Rome in the shadow of the Curia. The breakthrough to his own artistic concept came immediately before and during his work in Padua. In addition to prominent churchmen, ecclesiastical institutions, and the King of Naples, his clients were predominantly members of Italy's urban and financial elites. The adoption and further development of his inventions by other - especially Sienese - painters pressured him in his later years to try new approaches again.
Giotto the Painter. Volume 3: Survival
Title | Giotto the Painter. Volume 3: Survival PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Viktor Schwarz |
Publisher | Böhlau Wien |
Total Pages | 433 |
Release | 2023-04-17 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 3205217330 |
Giotto is considered by many to be the founder of modern painting. This thesis is discussed and modified in the present volume on an empirical basis. What emerges is that Giotto's impact cannot be reduced simply to the introduction of the study of nature. Rather, his art was involved in the development of pictorial idioms that were attuned to the skills and interests of their audiences. The new approaches in his painting contributed in particular to the possibility of examining and communicating psychological, narrative and allegorical content of great complexity outside the media of language and text, which not only changed the face of European art but certainly contributed to the intellectual opening of Western societies.
St. Cecilia Master and his circle
Title | St. Cecilia Master and his circle PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Offner |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 320 |
Release | 1986 |
Genre | Painting |
ISBN |
Chemical Analysis in Cultural Heritage
Title | Chemical Analysis in Cultural Heritage PDF eBook |
Author | Luigia Sabbatini |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | 587 |
Release | 2020-02-24 |
Genre | Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | 3110456486 |
Chemical Analysis provides non invasive and micro-analytical techniques for the investigation of cultural heritage materials. The tools and techniques, discussed by experts in the field, are of universal, sensitive and multi-component nature.
Mary, Mother of God
Title | Mary, Mother of God PDF eBook |
Author | Barbara Haeger |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 450 |
Release | 2023-12-28 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9004549528 |
By clothing the Word with her flesh, the Virgin Mary made God visible, manifesting Christ as a perfect “image” of the Father. By virtue of this archetypal “artistry” of Incarnation, Mary mediates the tradition of Christian image-making. This volume explores images of the Mother of God in early modern devotion, piety, and power. The book is divided into four sections, the first three of which link the subjects thematically and geographically in Europe, while the last one follows Mary’s legacy. Contributors include: Elliott D. Wise, Anna Dlabačová, James Clifton, Kim Butler Wingfield, Barbara Baert, Steven Ostrow, Barbara Haeger, Shelley Perlove, Cristina Cruz González, and Mehreen Chida-Razvi.