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Mantua

Author : Sue Kovach Shuman
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467106747
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)

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Download or read book Mantua written by Sue Kovach Shuman and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-06-14 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mantua, Virginia, sprouted outside Washington, DC, after World War II because of its convenient location between the Little River Turnpike and US Route 50, roads that made commuting into the nation's capital easy. But Mantua's roots go back to a 1685 Northern Neck of Virginia land grant. Gristmills operated along the Accotink Creek, which still defines the terrain. Civil War major John Henry Chichester's family named Mantua, which stretched south to Glenbrook Road farms, under three miles from the Fairfax Court House, where the first Confederate soldier was killed. The area gradually changed from farms where grain grew and livestock grazed to a wooded suburb with Mid-Century Modern houses. Federal workers and military personnel put down roots, establishing a community. An underground oil spill in 1990 united residents determined to overcome unwanted national attention and continue a small-town America lifestyle in the shadow of the nation's capital.

Music and Patronage in Sixteenth-Century Mantua: Volume 1

Author : Iain Fenlon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521088336
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (883 download)

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Download or read book Music and Patronage in Sixteenth-Century Mantua: Volume 1 written by Iain Fenlon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-30 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Viewed traditionally, the history of sixteenth-century Mantuan music is almost a catalogue of some of the most distinguished composers of the age, from Tromboncino and Cara, via Jacquet of Mantua, to Wert, Palestrina, Marenzio, Pallavicino, Gastoldi, Rossi and Monteverdi. The remarkable achievements of composers under Gonzaga patronage, practically synonymous with Mantuan patronage during this period, are treated here in their social context. The arguments proceed not just from the music itself, but from detailed examination of archival sources, from which Dr Fenlon reconstructs employment patterns and describes the social structure and institutional life of the city. The aim of the book is to show how the patterns of patronage, and music and musicians, reflect and illuminate the temperaments and prime preoccupations of successive rulers. The book contains a substantial appendix of unpublished archival documents, a small proportion only of the scholarly and comparative sources on which the study is based.

Private Collectors in Mantua, 1500-1630

Author : Guido Rebecchini
Publisher : Ed. di Storia e Letteratura
ISBN 13 : 8884980496
Total Pages : 489 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (849 download)

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Download or read book Private Collectors in Mantua, 1500-1630 written by Guido Rebecchini and published by Ed. di Storia e Letteratura. This book was released on 2002 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Case studies of private art collections recorded during the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries in Mantua. This work seeks to show how the collectors' taste changed during this period and how these changes are reflected in the collections' display, and also seeks to contribute to the understanding of the original context of works of art in sixteenth and early seventeenth century private houses in a courtly city.

The Art of Mantua

Author : Barbara Furlotti
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780892368402
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (684 download)

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Download or read book The Art of Mantua written by Barbara Furlotti and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2008 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Although most of Mantua's artistic treasures were sold or claimed as war spoils upon the decline of the Gonzaga family, the rich cultural legacy of this fascinating city lives on in the city's many surviving frescoes and in the collections of some of the world's premier museums These priceless works of art are reunited in the pages of this beautifully illustrated volume."--BOOK JACKET.

A Renaissance Tapestry

Author : Kate Simon
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Renaissance Tapestry written by Kate Simon and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1989 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A microcosm of Renaissance Italy is presented through this family history of the Gonzaga of Mantau--one of the reigning families of the Renaissance.--Amazon.com.

Mantua and its province

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Publisher : Touring Editore
ISBN 13 : 9788836534807
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Mantua and its province written by and published by Touring Editore. This book was released on 2006 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The pedigree of ... the duchess of Mantua, Montferrat and Ferrara; compiled ... by J. Riddell assisted by the comte de Chambord, M. Berryer, jr., and J. Montgomery

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Author : John Riddell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book The pedigree of ... the duchess of Mantua, Montferrat and Ferrara; compiled ... by J. Riddell assisted by the comte de Chambord, M. Berryer, jr., and J. Montgomery written by John Riddell and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Women, Art and Architectural Patronage in Renaissance Mantua

Author : Sally Anne Hickson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113477737X
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)

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Download or read book Women, Art and Architectural Patronage in Renaissance Mantua written by Sally Anne Hickson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-17 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzing the artistic patronage of famous and lesser known women of Renaissance Mantua, and introducing new patronage paradigms that existed among those women, this study sheds new light the social, cultural and religious impact of the cult of female mystics of that city in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century. Author Sally Hickson combines primary archival research, contextual analysis of the climate of female mysticism, and a re-examination of a number of visual objects (particularly altarpieces devoted to local beatae, saints and female founders of religious orders) to delineate ties between women both outside and inside the convent walls. The study contests the accepted perception of Isabella d'Este as a purely secular patron, exposing her role as a religious patron as well. Hickson introduces the figure of Margherita Cantelma and documents concerning the building and decoration of her monastery on the part of Isabella d'Este; and draws attention to the cultural and political activities of nuns of the Gonzaga family, particularly Isabella's daughter Livia Gonzaga who became a powerful agent in Mantuan civic life. Women, Art and Architectural Patronage in Renaissance Mantua provides insight into a complex and fluid world of sacred patronage, devotional practices and religious roles of secular women as well as nuns in Renaissance Mantua.

Rabbi Judah Moscato and the Jewish Intellectual World of Mantua in the 16th-17th Centuries

Author : Giuseppe Veltri
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004222251
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Rabbi Judah Moscato and the Jewish Intellectual World of Mantua in the 16th-17th Centuries written by Giuseppe Veltri and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-03-02 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Judah ben Joseph Moscato (c.1533–1590) was one of the most distinguished rabbis, authors, and preachers of the Italian-Jewish Renaissance. This volume is a record of the proceedings of an international conference organized in Mantua and consists of contributions on Moscato and his intellectual world.

The University of Mantua, the Gonzaga, and the Jesuits, 1584–1630

Author : Paul F. Grendler
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 080189171X
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book The University of Mantua, the Gonzaga, and the Jesuits, 1584–1630 written by Paul F. Grendler and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2009-06-22 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thanks to extensive archival research and a thorough examination of the published works of the university's professors, Grendler's history tells a new story.

Music at the Gonzaga Court in Mantua

Author : Donald C. Sanders
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 073916726X
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Music at the Gonzaga Court in Mantua written by Donald C. Sanders and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning in the second half of the fifteenth century, under the patronage of the Gonzaga family, the northern Italian city of Mantua became a vibrant center for visual art, theatre, and music. The performance at the Gonzaga court of Poliziano's Fabula di Orfeo, around 1480, marked the beginning of secular music theatre. The use of musical numbers within the drama anticipated the beginnings of opera at Florence a century later, as well as the first masterpiece of the genre, Monteverdi's La favola d'Orfeo at Mantua in 1607. Mantua reached the zenith of its artistic distinction during the reign of Duke Vincenzo I, between 1587 and 1612. During this time, Wert and Gastoldi were joined at the court by the important Jewish composer Salamone Rossi and, most notably, by Monteverdi. The premieres of his Orfeo and Arisanna made the Gonzaga court, for that brief period, the most important center in the development of opera. In Music at the Gonzaga Court in Mantua, Donald C. Sanders discusses musical composition at the court in the context of the brilliant visual art that provided such a conducive environment. Sanders also traces the history of this very colorful family and their relationships with the emperors, kings, and popes who shaped modern Europe. Part history, part musicology, Sanders' analysis spans the fifteenth century through the seventeenth century, filling informative gaps with details essential for students in courses on Renaissance or Baroque music, or in more specialized courses on madrigal, opera, or liturgical music. Music at the Gonzaga Court in Mantua is also important reading for knowledgeable musical amateurs and anyone with interest in Italian history and arts.

The University of Mantua, the Gonzaga, and the Jesuits, 1584–1630

Author : Paul F. Grendler
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 0801897831
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book The University of Mantua, the Gonzaga, and the Jesuits, 1584–1630 written by Paul F. Grendler and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2009-07-27 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Universities were driving forces of change in late Renaissance Italy. The Gonzaga, the ruling family of Mantua, had long supported scholarship and dreamed of founding an institution of higher learning within the city. In the early seventeenth century they joined forces with the Jesuits, a powerful intellectual and religious force, to found one of the most innovative universities of the time. Paul F. Grendler provides the first book in any language about the Peaceful University of Mantua, its official name. He traces the efforts of Duke Ferdinando Gonzaga, a prince savant who debated Galileo, as he made his family’s dream a reality. Ferdinando negotiated with the Jesuits, recruited professors, and financed the school. Grendler examines the motivations of the Gonzaga and the Jesuits in the establishment of a joint civic and Jesuit university. The University of Mantua lasted only six years, lost during the brutal sack of the city by German troops in 1630. Despite its short life, the university offered original scholarship and teaching. It had the first professorship of chemistry more than 100 years before any other Italian university. The leading professor of medicine identified the symptoms of angina pectoris 140 years before an English scholar named the disease. The star law professor advanced new legal theories while secretly spying for James I of England. The Jesuits taught humanities, philosophy, and theology in ways both similar to and different from lay professors. A superlative study of education, politics, and culture in seventeenth-century Italy, this book reconsiders a period in Italy’s history often characterized as one of feckless rulers and stagnant learning. Thanks to extensive archival research and a thorough examination of the published works of the university's professors, Grendler's history tells a new story.

Music and Patronage in Sixteenth-Century Mantua: Volume 2

Author : Iain Fenlon
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Music and Patronage in Sixteenth-Century Mantua: Volume 2 written by Iain Fenlon and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1980 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Viewed traditionally, the history of sixteenth-century Mantuan music is almost a catalogue of some of the most distinguished composers of the age, from Tromboncino and Cara, via Jacquet of Mantua, to Wert, Palestrina, Marenzio, Pallavicino, Gastoldi, Rossi and Monteverdi. The remarkable achievements of composers under Gonzaga patronage, practically synonymous with Mantuan patronage during this period, are treated here in their social context. The arguments proceed not just from the music itself, but from detailed examination of archival sources, from which Dr Fenlon reconstructus employment patterns and describes the social structure and institutional life of the city. The aim of the book is to show how the patterns of patronage, and music and musicians, reflect and illuminate the temperaments and prime preoccupations of successive rulers. The book contains a substantial appendix of unpublished archival documents, a small proportion only of the scholarly and comparative sources on which the study is based. This study will appeal to musicologists, as well as to students and teachers interested in the cultures of early modern Italy. A selection of music, illustrating in various ways the system of patronage which brought it into being and enabled its survival, will be published in a companion volume.

Palazzo Te

Author : Ugo Bazzotti
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 050051710X
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Palazzo Te written by Ugo Bazzotti and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lavish Renaissance pleasure palace for rest and entertainment, decorated with spectacular frescoes of themes from ancient myth Built for Federico II Gonzaga Duke of Mantua between 1525 and 1536, Palazzo Te is the masterpiece of Renaissance artist, designer, and architect Giulio Romano, the most accomplished and favored of Raphael’s pupils. The palace’s interiors are replete with frescoes depicting imaginative scenes and trompe l’oeil fantasies of gods and heroes, fictive marble statues, and portraits of the Duke’s favorite thoroughbreds. From the erotic scenes of the Sala di Psiche to the famous Sala di Giganti, based on the mythological defeat of the Titans by the gods of Olympus, the High Renaissance ideal of classical harmony and balance is overtaken by breathtaking illusionist techniques and images of giants, falling masonry, and the thunderbolts from the gods.

Women, Art and Architectural Patronage in Renaissance Mantua

Author : Sally Anne Hickson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134777442
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)

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Download or read book Women, Art and Architectural Patronage in Renaissance Mantua written by Sally Anne Hickson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-17 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzing the artistic patronage of famous and lesser known women of Renaissance Mantua, and introducing new patronage paradigms that existed among those women, this study sheds new light the social, cultural and religious impact of the cult of female mystics of that city in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century. Author Sally Hickson combines primary archival research, contextual analysis of the climate of female mysticism, and a re-examination of a number of visual objects (particularly altarpieces devoted to local beatae, saints and female founders of religious orders) to delineate ties between women both outside and inside the convent walls. The study contests the accepted perception of Isabella d'Este as a purely secular patron, exposing her role as a religious patron as well. Hickson introduces the figure of Margherita Cantelma and documents concerning the building and decoration of her monastery on the part of Isabella d'Este; and draws attention to the cultural and political activities of nuns of the Gonzaga family, particularly Isabella's daughter Livia Gonzaga who became a powerful agent in Mantuan civic life. Women, Art and Architectural Patronage in Renaissance Mantua provides insight into a complex and fluid world of sacred patronage, devotional practices and religious roles of secular women as well as nuns in Renaissance Mantua.

Napoleon in Italy

Author : Phillip R. Cuccia
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 080614534X
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Napoleon in Italy written by Phillip R. Cuccia and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2014-05 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on underutilized military records in Austrian, French, and Italian archives, Cuccia delves into these important conflicts to integrate political and social issues with a campaign study. Unlike other military histories of the era, Napoleon in Italy brings to light the words of soldiers, leaders, and citizens who experienced the sieges firsthand.

The Princess of Mantua

Author : Marie Ferranti
Publisher : Hesperus Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Princess of Mantua written by Marie Ferranti and published by Hesperus Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a series of letters between Barbara and her cousin Maria, in which she recounts her daily life, dramas and jokes, The Princess of Mantua is an example of docufiction at its most exquisite.