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Magnificence in the Seventeenth Century

Author : Gijs Versteegen
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004436804
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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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. Although this period is often described as the ‘Age of Magnificence’, thus far no attempts have been made to investigate how the term and the concept of magnificence functioned. The authors focus on the way crucial ethical, religious, political, aesthetic, and cultural developments interacted with thought on magnificence in Catholic and Protestant contexts, analysing spectacular civic and courtly festivities and theatre, impressive displays of painting and sculpture in rich architectural settings, splendid gardens, exclusive etiquette, grand households, and learned treatises of moral philosophy. Contributors: Lindsay Alberts, Stijn Bussels, Jorge Fernández-Santos, Anne-Madeleine Goulet, Elizabeth den Hartog, Michèle-Caroline Heck, Miguel Hermoso Cuesta, José Eloy Hortal Muñoz, Félix Labrador Arroyo, Victoire Malenfer, Alessandro Metlica, Alessandra Mignatti, Anne-Françoise Morel, Matthias Roick, Kathrin Stocker, Klaas Tindemans, and Gijs Versteegen.

The Sublime in the Visual Culture of the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic

Author : Stijn Bussels
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003803490
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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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.

"Eastern Magnificence & European Ingenuity"

Author : Catherine Pagani
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472112081
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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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

Baroque, 1620-1800

Author : Michael Snodin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 12 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (913 download)

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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:

Consuming Splendor

Author : Linda Levy Peck
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521842327
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (423 download)

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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.

Lorenzo De' Medici and the Art of Magnificence

Author : F. W. Kent
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801886270
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (862 download)

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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.

Making Marvels

Author : Wolfram Koeppe
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 1588396770
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)

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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.

Inventing the Opera House

Author : Eugene J. Johnson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108421741
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Inventing the Opera House written by Eugene J. Johnson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-17 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the invention of the architecture of the modern opera house in Italy between the late fifteenth and late seventeenth centuries.

Medicine and Magnificence

Author : Christine Stevenson
Publisher : Paul Mellon Ctr for Studies
ISBN 13 : 9780300085365
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (853 download)

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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.

Power and Virtue

Author : Shiqiao Li
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040278108
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Power and Virtue written by Shiqiao Li and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-11-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first full-length study on the connections between English architecture and intellectual change between 1660 and 1730. As new ideas developed in post-Restoration England across the realms of politics, culture, academia and morality, so too did architectural expression of these ideas. Power and Virtue articulately engages English architecture with notions of power and virtue in terms of empirical knowledge on the one hand and humanism and virtuosi on the other. Aimed at an academic readership in history and theory of architecture and the history of English architecture, this unique study will also interest those studying the ideas of material culture.

Listening as Spiritual Practice in Early Modern Italy

Author : Andrew Dell'Antonio
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520269292
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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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.

Global Gifts

Author : Zoltán Biedermann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108415504
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Global Gifts written by Zoltán Biedermann and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global Gifts considers the role that the circulation of material culture played in the establishment of early modern global diplomacy.

Strategic Rewriting

Author : David Lee Rubin
Publisher : Rookwood Press
ISBN 13 : 9781886365230
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (652 download)

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Download or read book Strategic Rewriting written by David Lee Rubin and published by Rookwood Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A broad-based, innovative survey of rewriting in several modalities: translation, adaptation, recycling, appropriation, and re-mediation, along with the effect of each on form and meaning, kind and canon, historical and discursive continuity, as well as the conceptualizing of gender. Essays on Du Bellay, Montaigne, La Ceppède, Tbéophile de Viau, Corneille, d'Aubignac, La Fontaine, Diderot, and recent Anglo-American translations of La Princesse de Cleves.

Baroque Seville

Author : Amanda Wunder
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 027107941X
Total Pages : 499 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Baroque Seville written by Amanda Wunder and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baroque art flourished in seventeenth-century Seville during a tumultuous period of economic decline, social conflict, and natural disasters. This volume explores the patronage that fueled this frenzy of religious artistic and architectural activity and the lasting effects it had on the city and its citizens. Amanda Wunder investigates the great public projects of sacred artwork that were originally conceived as medios divinos—divine solutions to the problems that plagued Seville. These commissions included new polychromed wooden sculptures and richly embroidered clothing for venerable old images, gilded altarpieces and monumental paintings for church interiors, elaborate ephemeral decorations and festival books by which to remember them, and the gut renovation or rebuilding of major churches that had stood for hundreds of years. Meant to revive the city spiritually, these works also had a profound real-world impact. Participation in the production of sacred artworks elevated the social standing of the artists who made them and the devout benefactors who commissioned them, and encouraged laypeople to rally around pious causes. Using a diverse range of textual and visual sources, Wunder provides a compelling look at the complex visual world of seventeenth-century Seville and the artistic collaborations that involved all levels of society in the attempt at its revitalization. Vibrantly detailed and thoroughly researched, Baroque Seville is a fascinating account of Seville’s hard-won transformation into one of the foremost centers of Baroque art in Spain during a period of crisis.

Early Modern Court Culture

Author : Erin Griffey
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000480321
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Early Modern Court Culture written by Erin Griffey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-29 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a thematic overview of court culture that connects the cultural with the political, confessional, spatial, material and performative, this volume introduces the dynamics of power and culture in the early modern European court. Exploring the period from 1500 to 1750, Early Modern Court Culture is cross-cultural and interdisciplinary, providing insights into aspects of both community and continuity at courts as well as individual identity, change and difference. Culture is presented as not merely a vehicle for court propaganda in promoting the monarch and the dynasty, but as a site for a complex range of meanings that conferred status and virtue on the patron, maker, court and the wider community of elites. The essays show that the court provided an arena for virtue and virtuosity, intellectual and social play, demonstration of moral authority and performance of social, gendered, confessional and dynastic identity. Early Modern Court Culture moves from political structures and political players to architectural forms and spatial geographies; ceremonial and ritual observances; visual and material culture; entertainment and knowledge. With 35 contributions on subjects including gardens, dress, scent, dance and tapestries, this volume is a necessary resource for all students and scholars interested in the court in early modern Europe.

Tapestry in the Renaissance

Author : Thomas P. Campbell
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 1588390225
Total Pages : 606 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)

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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.

Opera in Seventeenth-Century Venice

Author : Ellen Rosand
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520254260
Total Pages : 712 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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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