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Book Synopsis Gothic and Renaissance Altarpieces by : Caterina Limentani Virdis
Download or read book Gothic and Renaissance Altarpieces written by Caterina Limentani Virdis and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mid-15th century, when the tradition styles and techniques of the Middle Ages were yielding to the new influences of the Renaissance, the altarpieces of cathedrals and major churches reached a degree of elaboration never seen before. For a century or so altarpieces had been constructed so that they could be closed or open (for saints' days and festivals), often in three parts (triptychs), with two wings folding over the centre. This scheme was now expanded: panels were arranged sometimes in two tiers which could open separately. The three-part stucture could grow to five and even seven. In the most extreme case, Grunewald's Isenheim Altarpiece, there was an unprecedented number of possibilities - a sort of theological hierarchy, with panels opening to reveal deeper and deeper mysteries.
Book Synopsis Great Altarpieces by : Caterina Virdis Limentani
Download or read book Great Altarpieces written by Caterina Virdis Limentani and published by Vendome Press. This book was released on 1999-10-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Alas, few of the great polyptychs, wonderful as they are, survive in their original form or place of installation, having suffered the vicissitudes of history, as the authors explain in detail, particularly the misadventures that followed upon the secularization laws promulgated by Napoleon in the late 18th century. Along with this story and countless others comes the extended series of full-color illustrations, over 400 in all, many of them full-page and full-bleed.
Book Synopsis Carved Splendor by : Rainer Kahsnitz
Download or read book Carved Splendor written by Rainer Kahsnitz and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2006 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The color photographs, specially commissioned for this project, are an essential feature of the book. Each altarpiece is illustrated in its entirety, with its wings both opened and closed, and in close-up views of its most important carvings and paintings - details that are not available to the average visitor to these sites."--BOOK JACKET.
Book Synopsis Fifty Pictures of Gothic Altars by : Percy Dearmer
Download or read book Fifty Pictures of Gothic Altars written by Percy Dearmer and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Italian Altarpieces 1250-1550 by : Eve Borsook
Download or read book Italian Altarpieces 1250-1550 written by Eve Borsook and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1994 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1960s, the Italian altarpiece has attracted unprecedented scholarly attention, bringing artistic, liturgical, social and technical considerations to bear on the subject. The eight contributors to this book provide an impressive synopsis of the different approaches developed in order to enlarge and deepen our knowledge of paintings in terms of their historical functions. Patronage, morphology, religious meaning, pictorial composition, reception, and original setting are all discussed. In several cases, new light is shed on paintings that until a few years ago were dealt with only as elements within a history of style. In nearly all the contributions there is an overwhelming concern with reconstruction, and much new material is presented concerning the historical significance of a specific category of painting. This volume is the result of an international symposium held in June 1988 at the Harvard University for Italian Renaissance Studies at Villa I Tatti in Florence.
Book Synopsis From Duccio's Maestà to Raphael's Transfiguration by : Christa Gardner von Teuffel
Download or read book From Duccio's Maestà to Raphael's Transfiguration written by Christa Gardner von Teuffel and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christa Gardner von Teuffel's studies of Italian altarpieces have provided fundamental insights concerning the original structure and setting of some of the canonical monuments of Italian late medieval and Renaissance painting. Studies of panel type and frame architecture are combined with an investigation of original sites. Archival discoveries at Florence and Palermo have led to a new assessment of institutional patronage and private benefaction, and illuminated the formulation of altarpiece programmes, such as Perugino's Vallombrosan Assumption and Raphael's Lo Spasimo. These essays contribute enduringly to our understanding of contractual obligation, design process and altarpiece installation, and demonstrate the nexus between ecclesiastical and lay patrons, artists and congregations. The author's pioneering examination of Carmelite patronage and subsequent investigation of the iconographical impact of Benedictine and Franciscan reform movements have prompted others to re-assess the patronage of religious Orders in the Quattrocento. The pervasive iconographical influence of the Holy Land is traced through Sansepolcro, Santa Croce in Gerusalemme at Rome and as far as the astonishing View of Sinai by El Greco.
Book Synopsis Luxury Arts of the Renaissance by : Marina Belozerskaya
Download or read book Luxury Arts of the Renaissance written by Marina Belozerskaya and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2005-10-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today we associate the Renaissance with painting, sculpture, and architecture—the “major” arts. Yet contemporaries often held the “minor” arts—gem-studded goldwork, richly embellished armor, splendid tapestries and embroideries, music, and ephemeral multi-media spectacles—in much higher esteem. Isabella d’Este, Marchesa of Mantua, was typical of the Italian nobility: she bequeathed to her children precious stone vases mounted in gold, engraved gems, ivories, and antique bronzes and marbles; her favorite ladies-in-waiting, by contrast, received mere paintings. Renaissance patrons and observers extolled finely wrought luxury artifacts for their exquisite craftsmanship and the symbolic capital of their components; paintings and sculptures in modest materials, although discussed by some literati, were of lesser consequence. This book endeavors to return to the mainstream material long marginalized as a result of historical and ideological biases of the intervening centuries. The author analyzes how luxury arts went from being lofty markers of ascendancy and discernment in the Renaissance to being dismissed as “decorative” or “minor” arts—extravagant trinkets of the rich unworthy of the status of Art. Then, by re-examining the objects themselves and their uses in their day, she shows how sumptuous creations constructed the world and taste of Renaissance women and men.
Book Synopsis Staging the Liturgy by : Justin E. A. Kroesen
Download or read book Staging the Liturgy written by Justin E. A. Kroesen and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TABLE OF CONTENTSTABLE OF CONTENTS PREFACE INTRODUCTIONFORMINTRODUCTION Status quaestionis The morphology of the medieval retable in western Europe The retable: definition and origins The panel retable The winged retable THE ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE MEDIEVALRETABLE IN THE IBERIAN PENINSULA The ancestry of the Iberian retable (600-1200)The decoration of the mensa and stipes Ciboria and baldachins Reliquaries combined with altars Objects above and on the mensa Wall and vault paintings SummaryRomanesque altar retables (1000-1250) The oldest known retables SummaryThe retable under French influence (1250-1400) Painted retables Carved retables SummaryThe painted retable under Italian influence (1330-1400) Contacts with Tuscany Catalonia Other parts of Spain SummarySculptured retables in Catalonia (1325-1430) Stone retables in ltalo-Gothic style The Lleida SchoolInternational Gothic SummaryInternational Gothic in retable painting (1380-1450) Catalonia Valencia, Mallorca, Aragon and Navarre Castile SummaryThe import of retables from northern Europe (1390-1520) English alabasters Triptychs from the Southern Netherlands Foreign sculpture, Spanish structure SummaryPainted retables in the Spanish-Flemish style (1430-1510) Catalonia, Valencia and Aragon Castile and Navarre Portugal Summary Sculptured wall retables in the Late Gothic style (1470-1530) Cathedrals Other churches Summary The transition to the Renaissance retable (1490-1530) Painted retables Sculptured retables Summary Relationships to other traditions and genres (1470-1540) Relationships to other traditionsRelationships to other genres SUMMARY THE MEDIEVAL CHOIR IN THE IBERIAN PENINSULA:FORM AND LOCATION General characteristics The form of the choir Choir stalls Choir partitions The location of the choir The Romanesque coro in Santiago de Compostela The church of St James and its choir Reasons for the nave location Possible antecedents Gothic nave choirs Monastic churches From mosques to cathedrals Other cathedrals Collegiate and parish churches Exceptions that prove the rule The exceptions Burgos and León The coro alto Monastic churches Secular churches Possible antecedents Summary BETWEEN THE TWO CHOIRS: THE CROSSING AS ACROSSROADS OF ACTIVITY Between the two choirs The crossing as a place for preachingThe high altar visible for both clergy and laity CONSEQUENCES FOR THE RETABLE II. ENVIRONMENT III. MESSAGE INTRODUCTION Word and image in the medieval church interiorThe main features of medieval retable iconography in western Europe INTRODUCTION Status quaestionis The choir in the medieval church interior of western Europe The Office The location of the choir in the church interior Consequences for the use of the church ICONOGRAPHY OF THE MEDIEVAL RETABLE IN THEIBERIAN PENINSULAGeneral tendencies The Eucharistic message The hagiographical message The narrative messageTHE RETABLE IN ITS RELIGIOUS AND HISTORICCONTEXT Backcloth to the Mass From communal celebration to clerical spectacle Enrichment of the ritual and its decor Changing attitudes to the Sacrament Background to the sermon The development of the sermon References to retables in sermons Other uses of imagery by preachersDevotional image The individualisation of devotion Illustrated devotional literature The devotional book and the retable Prestige object The secularisation of the retable Private founding of high altar retables Retable rivalry Mirror of the Reconquest The Reconquest as a holy war From coexistence to Inquisition The Reconquest and the retable Expression of reform The 'Reform of the Catholic Monarchs' Correspondences with the retable Cardinal Cisneros, reformer and Maecenas SUMMARY GENERAL CONCLUSIONS BIBLIOGRAPHYINDEX OF PLACES AND PERSONSPLATES.
Download or read book Sassetta written by Sassetta and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sassetta, the subtle genius from Siena, revolutionized Italian painting with an altarpiece for the small Tuscan town of Borgo San Sepolcro in 1437-1444. To produce this volume, experts in art and general history have joined forces across the boundaries of eight different nations to explore Sassetta's work.
Download or read book Frame Work written by Alison Wright and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frame Work explores how framing devices in the art of Renaissance Italy respond, and appeal, to viewers in their social, religious, and political context.
Book Synopsis Gothic to Renaissance by : Donald Garstang
Download or read book Gothic to Renaissance written by Donald Garstang and published by Allemandi. This book was released on 1988 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gothic and Renaissance written by and published by . This book was released on 1920* with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Gothic and Renaissance Art; Important K'ang-hsi Porcelains; French, Spanish, Italian Furniture, a Spanish Baroque Altar and Ceiling by : Anderson Ga American Art Association
Download or read book Gothic and Renaissance Art; Important K'ang-hsi Porcelains; French, Spanish, Italian Furniture, a Spanish Baroque Altar and Ceiling written by Anderson Ga American Art Association and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Gothic Art written by Jessica Gunderson and published by The Creative Company. This book was released on 2008-07 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an introduction to Gothic Art, describing the art movement's basic tenets, how and when it started, and its most significant artists.
Book Synopsis Italian Renaissance Frames by : Timothy J. Newbery
Download or read book Italian Renaissance Frames written by Timothy J. Newbery and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1990 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in conjunction with the exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, June to September 1990. Includes a catalogue, an introductory essay, and a glossary without pronunciations. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Book Synopsis Making Renaissance Art by : Kim Woods
Download or read book Making Renaissance Art written by Kim Woods and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores key themes in the making of Renaissance painting, sculpture, architecture, and prints: the use of specific techniques and materials, theory and practice, change and continuity in artistic procedures, conventions and values. It also reconsiders the importance of mathematical perspective, the assimilation of the antique revival, and the illusion of life. Embracing the full significance of Renaissance art requires understanding how it was made. As manifestations of technical expertise and tradition as much as innovation, artworks of this period reveal highly complex creative processes--allowing us an inside view on the vexed issue of the notion of a renaissance.
Book Synopsis The Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art and Architecture by : Colum Hourihane
Download or read book The Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art and Architecture written by Colum Hourihane and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 4064 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers unparalleled coverage of all aspects of art and architecture from medieval Western Europe, from the 6th century to the early 16th century. Drawing upon the expansive scholarship in the celebrated 'Grove Dictionary of Art' and adding hundreds of new entries, it offers students, researchers and the general public a reliable, up-to-date, and convenient resource covering this field of major importance in the development of Western history and international art and architecture.
