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Book Synopsis Magnificence in the Seventeenth Century by : Gijs Versteegen
Download or read book Magnificence in the Seventeenth Century written by Gijs Versteegen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-11-23 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the concept of magnificence as a social construction in seventeenth-century Europe.
Book Synopsis "Eastern Magnificence & European Ingenuity" by : Catherine Pagani
Download or read book "Eastern Magnificence & European Ingenuity" written by Catherine Pagani and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the important role played by elaborate clockwork in relations between China and Europe from the late sixteenth to the late eighteenth centuries
Book Synopsis The Sublime in the Visual Culture of the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic by : Stijn Bussels
Download or read book The Sublime in the Visual Culture of the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic written by Stijn Bussels and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-11-21 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contrary to what Kant believed about the Dutch (and their visual culture) as “being of an orderly and diligent position” and thus having no feeling for the sublime, this book argues that the sublime played an important role in seventeenth-century Dutch visual culture. By looking at different visualizations of exceptional heights, divine presence, political grandeur, extreme violence, and extraordinary artifacts, the authors demonstrate how viewers were confronted with the sublime, which evoked in them a combination of contrasting feelings of awe and fear, attraction and repulsion. In studying seventeenth-century Dutch visual culture through the lens of notions of the sublime, we can move beyond the traditional and still widespread views on Dutch art as the ultimate representation of everyday life and the expression of a prosperous society in terms of calmness, neatness, and order. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, visual culture, architectural history, and cultural history.
Book Synopsis Consuming Splendor by : Linda Levy Peck
Download or read book Consuming Splendor written by Linda Levy Peck and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-09-19 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating study of the ways in which consumption transformed social practices, gender roles, royal policies, and the economy in seventeenth-century England. It reveals for the first time the emergence of consumer society in seventeenth-century England.
Book Synopsis Baroque, 1620-1800 by : Michael Snodin
Download or read book Baroque, 1620-1800 written by Michael Snodin and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Magnificent Lovers written by Moliere and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-05-13 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Magnificent Lovers" from Moli�re. French playwright and actor who is considered to be one of the greatest masters of comedy in Western literature (1622-1673).
Book Synopsis Listening as Spiritual Practice in Early Modern Italy by : Andrew Dell'Antonio
Download or read book Listening as Spiritual Practice in Early Modern Italy written by Andrew Dell'Antonio and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-07-02 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume the author looks at the rise of a cultivated audience whose skill involved listening rather than playing or singing, in the early 17th century.
Book Synopsis Medicine and Magnificence by : Christine Stevenson
Download or read book Medicine and Magnificence written by Christine Stevenson and published by Paul Mellon Ctr for Studies. This book was released on 2000 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The late-17th and 18th centuries represent a golden age in terms of the design and construction of hospitals in Britain and its US colonies. This account of this period of planning and construction considers both the architecture and function of the hospitals and public response to them.
Book Synopsis Tapestry in the Renaissance by : Thomas P. Campbell
Download or read book Tapestry in the Renaissance written by Thomas P. Campbell and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2002 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tapestries--the art form of kings--were a principal tool used by powerful Renaissance rulers to convey their wealth and might. From 1460 to 1560, courts and churches lavished vast sums on costly weavings in silk and gold thread from designs by leading artists. In this lavishly illustrated book, the first major survey of tapestry production of this period, contributors analyze some of these & beautiful tapestries, examine the stylistic and technical development of tapestry production in the Low Countries, France, and Italy during the Renaissance, and discuss the contribution that the medium made to art, liturgy, and propaganda of the day.
Book Synopsis Age of Magnificence by : Louis de Rouvroy duc de Saint-Simon
Download or read book Age of Magnificence written by Louis de Rouvroy duc de Saint-Simon and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Magnificent Faith by : Bridget Heal
Download or read book A Magnificent Faith written by Bridget Heal and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive history of the Reformation origins and flourishing of Lutheran baroque; while the Protestant reform movements are generally associated with iconoclasm, this book studies art, religion, and politics to show that in Lutheran Germany a rich visual culture developed, despite theologians' ambivalent attitude towards images.
Book Synopsis The Age of Magnificence by : Louis de Rouvroy duc de Saint-Simon
Download or read book The Age of Magnificence written by Louis de Rouvroy duc de Saint-Simon and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catholic Particularity in Seventeenth-Century French Writing by : Richard Parish
Download or read book Catholic Particularity in Seventeenth-Century French Writing written by Richard Parish and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2011-07-28 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid account of the belief system of early-modern France as expressed in different writing genres from sermons to martyr tragedies, lyric poetry to spiritual autobiography. Parish considers the distinctive doctrines that the heritage of the Catholic Reformation brought to light.
Download or read book Making Marvels written by Wolfram Koeppe and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2019-11-25 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring more than 150 treasures from several of the world’s most prestigious collections, Making Marvels explores the vital intersection of art, technology, and political power at the courts of early modern Europe. It was there, from the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries, that a remarkable outpouring of creativity and learning gave rise to exquisite objects that were at once beautiful works of art and technological wonders. By amassing vast, glittering collections of these ingeniously crafted objects, princes flaunted their wealth and competed for mastery over the known world. More than mere status symbols, however, many of these marvels ushered in significant advancements that have had a lasting influence on astronomy, engineering, and even international politics. Incisive texts by leading scholars situate these works within the rich, complex symbolism of life at court, where science and splendor were pursued with equal vigor and together contributed to a culture of magnificence.
Book Synopsis Milton, Longinus, and the Sublime in the Seventeenth Century by : Thomas Matthew Vozar
Download or read book Milton, Longinus, and the Sublime in the Seventeenth Century written by Thomas Matthew Vozar and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-03-14 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No author in the English canon seems more deserving of the epithet sublime than John Milton. Yet Milton's sublimity has long been dismissed as an invention of eighteenth-century criticism. The poet himself, the story goes, could hardly have had any notion of the sublime, a concept that only took shape in the decades after his death with the advent of philosophical aesthetics. Such a narrative, however, fails to account for the fact that Milton is one of the first writers in English to refer to Longinus, the author traditionally associated with the Ancient Greek treatise On the Sublime. This book argues that Milton did have an idea of the sublime--one that came to him from Longinus but also from a larger classical tradition that offered a pre-aesthetic predecessor to the aesthetic concept of the sublime. Thomas Vozar shows that Longinus was better known in early modern England than has been previously appreciated; that various notions of sublimity beyond that of Longinus would have been available to Milton and his contemporaries; and that such notions of the sublime were integral to Milton's rhetorical, scientific, and theological imagination. Additional material relating to the early modern reception of Longinus is provided in the appendices, which contain the first bibliographical study of copies of Longinus in English private libraries to 1674 and an edition of a newly discovered seventeenth-century English translation of Longinus. Far from being anachronistic, Milton's "abstracted sublimities" touch on almost every aspect of his thought, from rhetoric to politics, from science to theology. Making substantive contributions to literary scholarship, classical reception studies, and the history of ideas, Milton, Longinus, and the Sublime in the Seventeenth Century returns the sublime to its proper place at the forefront of Milton criticism, re-evaluates the diffusion of Longinian texts and concepts in early modern Europe, and records a crucial missing chapter in the history of the sublime.
Book Synopsis Lorenzo De' Medici and the Art of Magnificence by : F. W. Kent
Download or read book Lorenzo De' Medici and the Art of Magnificence written by F. W. Kent and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Historian F.W. Kent offers a new look at Lorenzo's relationship to the arts, aesthetics, collecting, and building - especially in the context of his role as the political boss (maestro della bottega) of republican Florence and a leading player in Renaissance Italian diplomacy. Kent's approach reveals Lorenzo's activities as an art patron as far more extensive and creative than previously thought. Known as "the Magnificent," Lorenzo was broadly interested in the arts and supported efforts to beautify Florence and the many Medici lands and palaces. His expertise was well regarded by guildsmen and artists, who often turned to him for advice as well as for patronage.
Book Synopsis Opera in Seventeenth-Century Venice by : Ellen Rosand
Download or read book Opera in Seventeenth-Century Venice written by Ellen Rosand and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2007-10-09 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this elegantly constructed study of the early decades of public opera, the conflicts and cooperation of poets, composers, managers, designers, and singers—producing the art form that was soon to sweep the world and that has been dominant ever since—are revealed in their first freshness."—Andrew Porter "This will be a standard work on the subject of the rise of Venetian opera for decades. Rosand has provided a decisive contribution to the reshaping of the entire subject. . . . She offers a profoundly new view of baroque opera based on a solid documentary and historical-critical foundation. The treatment of the artistic self-consciousness and professional activities of the librettists, impresarios, singers, and composers is exemplary, as is the examination of their reciprocal relations. This work will have a positive effect not only on studies of 17th-century, but on the history of opera in general."—Lorenzo Bianconi
