Raphael and the Redefinition of Art in Renaissance Italy
Title | Raphael and the Redefinition of Art in Renaissance Italy PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Williams |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 317 |
Release | 2017-04-03 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1107131502 |
A comprehensive re-assessment of Raphael's artistic achievement and the ways in which it transformed the idea of what art is.
Art in Renaissance Italy
Title | Art in Renaissance Italy PDF eBook |
Author | John T. Paoletti |
Publisher | Laurence King Publishing |
Total Pages | 575 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Art, Italian |
ISBN | 1856694399 |
'Art in Renaissance Italy' sets the art of that time in its context, exploring why it was created and in particular looking at who commissioned the palaces and cathedrals, the paintings and the sculptures.
Art and Love in Renaissance Italy
Title | Art and Love in Renaissance Italy PDF eBook |
Author | Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) |
Publisher | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Total Pages | 394 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Art del Renaixement |
ISBN | 1588393003 |
"Many famous artworks of the Italian Renaissance were made to celebrate love, marriage, and family. They were the pinnacles of a tradition, dating from early in the era, of commemorating betrothals, marriages, and the birth of children by commissioning extraordinary objects - maiolica, glassware, jewels, textiles, paintings - that were often also exchanged as gifts. This volume is the first comprehensive survey of artworks arising from Renaissance rituals of love and marriage and makes a major contribution to our understanding of Renaissance art in its broader cultural context. The impressive range of works gathered in these pages extends from birth trays painted in the early fifteenth century to large canvases on mythological themes that Titian painted in the mid-1500s. Each work of art would have been recognized by contemporary viewers for its prescribed function within the private, domestic domain."--BOOK JACKET.
The Life of Raphael
Title | The Life of Raphael PDF eBook |
Author | Giorgio Vasari |
Publisher | Getty Publications |
Total Pages | 129 |
Release | 2018-04-03 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1606065637 |
Giorgio Vasari, Florentine painter and architect, friend of Michelangelo and intimate of the Medici, is best known for his Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors and Architects, published in 1550 and in an enlarged edition in 1568. With more than two hundred biographies, it has for centuries been recognized as a seminal text in art history and one of the most important sources on the Italian Renaissance. It is to Vasari that we owe much of our knowledge of Raphael (1483–1520), who in his day was considered perhaps the greatest painter of all time. Rich in colorful anecdotes, The Life of Raphael is important for its sustained attention to the range of Raphael’s art, whose chronology and development Vasari describes in detail, together with the painter’s ample love life and spectacular social career. It also pays attention, unprecedented for its time, to theoretical issues. This edition, introduced by the scholar Jill Burke, includes thirty pages of color illustrations covering the entire span of Raphael’s oeuvre.
Space, Image, and Reform in Early Modern Art
Title | Space, Image, and Reform in Early Modern Art PDF eBook |
Author | Arthur J. DiFuria |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | 435 |
Release | 2021-11-08 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1501513451 |
The essays in Space, Image, and Reform in Early Modern Art build on Marcia Hall’s seminal contributions in several categories crucial for Renaissance studies, especially the spatiality of the church interior, the altarpiece’s facture and affectivity, the notion of artistic style, and the controversy over images in the era of Counter Reform. Accruing the advantage of critical engagement with a single paradigm, this volume better assesses its applicability and range. The book works cumulatively to provide blocks of theoretical and empirical research on issues spanning the function and role of images in their contexts over two centuries. Relating Hall’s investigations of Renaissance art to new fields, Space, Image, and Reform expands the ideas at the center of her work further back in time, further afield, and deeper into familiar topics, thus achieving a cohesion not usually seen in edited volumes honoring a single scholar.
The Agency of Female Typology in Italian Renaissance Paintings
Title | The Agency of Female Typology in Italian Renaissance Paintings PDF eBook |
Author | Edward J. Olszewski |
Publisher | Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | 221 |
Release | 2023-06-30 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1527512843 |
This study employs cognitive theory as a heuristic framework to interrogate the agency of female types in select Italian Renaissance paintings, with emphasis on Venus, Medusa, the Amazon, Boccaccio's Lady Fiammetta/Cleopatra, Susanna, the Magdalene, and the Madonna. The study disrupts assumptions about the identity of sitters and readings of paintings as it challenges paradigms of female representation. It interrogates why certain paintings were crafted, by whom and for whom. Works are placed in the context of meta-painting, with stress on the cognitive decisions negotiated between patron and artist. The ludic aspects of several paintings are examined with a fine grain semiotic approach to expand their iconographies. Psychoanalytic readings are unpacked, based on the flawed mythological metaphors and incomplete clinical studies of Sigmund Freud's theorizing. The rubric of female agency is deliberately selected to unify popular but enigmatic master paintings of disparate subjects.
Raphael (World of Art)
Title | Raphael (World of Art) PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Joannides |
Publisher | Thames & Hudson |
Total Pages | 479 |
Release | 2022-07-19 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0500776865 |
An authoritative introduction to Raphael, one of the most influential painters in the history of art, written by the preeminent authority on the subject and informed by the latest research. For centuries, Raphael has been recognized as the supreme High Renaissance painter, with many considering him more versatile than Michelangelo and more prolific than his older contemporary Leonardo da Vinci. Though he died young at thirty-seven, Raphael’s example as a paragon of classicism dominated the academic tradition of European painting until the mid-nineteenth century. This comprehensive survey looks at the different social and regional contexts of Raphael’s work and all aspects of his artistic production. From early training in Urbino to travels across central Italy, particularly Florence, where he became a noted portraitist and painter of Madonnas, to engagement by the papal court, this volume covers all areas of the artist’s practice. Focus is also devoted to the second half of Raphael’s career, when he became the dominant artist in Rome—even ahead of Michelangelo—and as a sophisticate entrepreneur, was able to extend the range of his activities to that of architect, designer, pioneer archaeologist, and theoretician. A beautifully illustrated study with over 150 full-color reproductions of Raphael’s work, ranging from major masterpieces to lesser-known paintings and drawings from all periods; art historian Paul Joannides, one of the world’s leading experts on Raphael’s drawings, sheds new light on this seminal artist.