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Author : Claudia La_Malfa
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Total Pages : 5 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (963 download)
Download or read book Reassessing the Renaissance of the Palestrina Nile Mosaic written by Claudia La_Malfa and published by . This book was released on 19?? with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paula Landart
Publisher : Paula Landart
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Total Pages : 84 pages
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Download or read book Palestrina written by Paula Landart and published by Paula Landart. This book was released on 2021-10-11 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The heart of this ancient city, hidden during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, came fully to light after it was bombed in World War II. Today Praeneste, known in modern times as Palestrina, is a fascinating mix of classical, medieval, and Renaissance streets, sites, and buildings, dominated by its 4th-century BC fortifications and above all by the 2nd-century BC sanctuary of Fortune. The two walks in this electronic book cover the city and its acropolis, touching on its legendary foundation by gods and Greeks, its innovations in classical architecture, its golden age and finally its demise as Rome grew powerful. Along the path, the legacy of the Colonna and the Barberini families serves to illustrate its troubled and violent history after the fall of the Empire.
Author : Christina Riggs
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191626333
Total Pages : 816 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Roman Egypt written by Christina Riggs and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2012-06-21 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roman Egypt is a critical area of interdisciplinary research, which has steadily expanded since the 1970s and continues to grow. Egypt played a pivotal role in the Roman empire, not only in terms of political, economic, and military strategies, but also as part of an intricate cultural discourse involving themes that resonate today - east and west, old world and new, acculturation and shifting identities, patterns of language use and religious belief, and the management of agriculture and trade. Roman Egypt was a literal and figurative crossroads shaped by the movement of people, goods, and ideas, and framed by permeable boundaries of self and space. This handbook is unique in drawing together many different strands of research on Roman Egypt, in order to suggest both the state of knowledge in the field and the possibilities for collaborative, synthetic, and interpretive research. Arranged in seven thematic sections, each of which includes essays from a variety of disciplinary vantage points and multiple sources of information, it offers new perspectives from both established and younger scholars, featuring individual essay topics, themes, and intellectual juxtapositions.
Author : Natsumi Nonaka
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351858173
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)
Download or read book Renaissance Porticoes and Painted Pergolas written by Natsumi Nonaka and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-02-17 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first study of the portico and its decorative program as a cultural phenomenon in Renaissance Italy. Focusing on a largely neglected group of porticoes decorated with painted pergolas that appeared in Rome and environs in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, it tells the story of how an element of the garden—the pergola—became a pictorial topos in portico decoration, and evolved, hand in hand with its real cousin in the garden, into an object for cultural emulation among the educated patrons of early modern Rome. The liminality of both the portico and the pergola at the interface of architecture and garden is key to the interpretation of these architectural and painted forms, which rests on the intersecting frameworks of the classical tradition, natural history, and the cultural identity of the aristocracy. In the mediating space of the Renaissance portico, the illusionism pergola created an art gallery, a natural history museum, and a virtual garden where one could engage in leisurely strolls, learned conversations, appreciation of art, and scientific investigation, as well as extensive travel across time and space. The book proposes the interpretation that the illusionistic pergola was an artistic formula for the early modern perception of nature.
Author : Claudia La Malfa
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1789141796
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (891 download)
Download or read book Raphael and the Antique written by Claudia La Malfa and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2020-02-15 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Renaissance artist Raphael is known for his extraordinary frescoes, his sublime Madonnas, devotional altarpieces, architectural designs, and his inventive designs for prints and tapestries. It was his use of ancient Roman art—the sculptures, the marble reliefs, the wall-paintings, and the stuccoes—and architecture—the temples, the palaces, and the theaters—as well as the churches and mosaics of early-Christian Rome, that formed his much-admired classical style. In Raphael and the Antique, Claudia La Malfa gives a full account of Raphael’s prodigious career, from central Italy when he was seventeen years old, to Perugia, Siena, and Florence, where he first met with Leonardo and Michelangelo, to Rome where he became one of the most feted artists of the Renaissance. This book brings to light Raphael’s reinvention of classical models, his draftsmanship, and his concept of art—ideas he pursued and was still striving to perfect at the time of his death in 1520 at the young age of thirty-seven.
Author : Herbert R. Broderick
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN 13 : 0268102082
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (681 download)
Download or read book Moses the Egyptian in the Illustrated Old English Hexateuch (London, British Library Cotton MS Claudius B.iv) written by Herbert R. Broderick and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Moses the Egyptian, Herbert Broderick analyzes the iconography of Moses in the famous illuminated eleventh-century manuscript known as the Illustrated Old English Hexateuch. A translation into Old English of the first six books of the Bible, the manuscript contains over 390 images, of which 127 depict Moses with a variety of distinctive visual attributes. Broderick presents a compelling thesis that these motifs, in particular the image of the horned Moses, have a Hellenistic Egyptian origin. He argues that the visual construct of Moses in the Old English Hexateuch may have been based on a Late Antique, no longer extant, prototype influenced by works of Hellenistic Egyptian Jewish exegetes, who ascribed to Moses the characteristics of an Egyptian-Hellenistic king, military commander, priest, prophet, and scribe. These Jewish writings were utilized in turn by early Christian apologists such as Clement of Alexandria and Eusebius of Caesarea. Broderick’s analysis of this Moses imagery ranges widely across religious divides, art-historical religious themes, and classical and early Jewish and Christian sources. Herbert Broderick is one of the foremost historians in the field of Anglo-Saxon art, with a primary focus on Old Testament iconography. Readers with interests in the history of medieval manuscript illustration, art history, and early Jewish and Christian apologetics will find much of interest in this profusely illustrated study.
Author : Joshua J. Thomas
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192659391
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)
Download or read book Art, Science, and the Natural World in the Ancient Mediterranean, 300 BC to AD 100 written by Joshua J. Thomas and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-22 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hellenistic Period witnessed striking new developments in art, literature and science. This volume addresses a particularly vibrant area of innovation: the study of animals and the natural world. While Aristotle and his followers had revolutionized fields such as zoology and botany during the fourth century BC, these disciplines took on exciting new directions during Hellenistic times. Kings imported exotic species into their royal capitals from faraway lands. Travel writers described unusual creatures that they had never previously encountered. And buyers from a range of social levels chose works of art featuring animals and plants to decorate their palaces, houses and tombs. While textual sources shed some light on these developments, the central premise of Art, Science and the Natural World in the Ancient Mediterranean is that our surviving artistic evidence permits a fuller understanding. Accordingly, the study brings together a rich body of visual material that invites new observations on how and why knowledge of the natural world became so important during this period. It is suggested that this cultural phenomenon affected many different groups in society: from kings in Alexandria and Pergamon to provincial aristocrats in the Levant, and from the Julio-Claudian imperial family to prosperous homeowners in Pompeii. By analysing the works of art produced for these individuals, a vivid picture emerges of this remarkable aspect of ancient culture.
Author : Warburg Institute
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)
Download or read book Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes written by Warburg Institute and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul G.P. Meyboom
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004283838
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book The Nile Mosaic of Palestrina written by Paul G.P. Meyboom and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-08-24 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The famous Nile Mosaic of Palestrina, ancient Praeneste in central Italy, dating to c. 100 B.C., is one of the earliest large mosaics which have been preserved from the classical world. It presents a unique, comprehensive picture of Egypt and Nubia. The interpretation of the mosaic is disputed, suggestions ranging from an exotic decoration to a topographical picture or a religious allegory. The present study demonstrates that the mosaic depicts rituals connected with Isis and Osiris and the yearly Nile flood. The presence of these Egyptian religious scenes at Praeneste can be explained by the assimilation of isis and Fortuna, the tutelary goddess of Praeneste, and by the interpretation of the mosaic as a symbol of divine providence.
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ISBN 13 : 9788894837001
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (37 download)
Download or read book Guida alla scoperta del mosaico del Nilo di Palestrina-Discover the mosaic of Palestrina. A guide. Ediz. illustrata written by and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Molly Swetnam-Burland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107040485
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Egypt in Italy written by Molly Swetnam-Burland and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-06 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the appetite for Egyptian and Egyptian-looking artwork in Italy during the century following Rome's annexation of Aegyptus as a province. In the early imperial period, Roman interest in Egyptian culture was widespread, as evidenced by works ranging from the monumental obelisks, brought to the capital over the Mediterranean Sea by the emperors, to locally made emulations of Egyptian artifacts found in private homes and in temples to Egyptian gods. Although the foreign appearance of these artworks was central to their appeal, this book situates them within their social, political, and artistic contexts in Roman Italy. Swetnam-Burland focuses on what these works meant to their owners and their viewers in their new settings, by exploring evidence for the artists who produced them and by examining their relationship to the contemporary literature that informed Roman perceptions of Egyptian history, customs, and myths.
Author : Gordon Campbell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 840 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Grove Encyclopedia of Classical Art and Architecture: Macedonia to Zygouries written by Gordon Campbell and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arranged alphabetically, entries trace the development of the art forms in classical civilizations such as ancient Greece and Rome.
Author : Windsor Castle. Royal Library
Publisher : British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Dal Pozzo Copies of the Palestrina Mosaic written by Windsor Castle. Royal Library and published by British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited. This book was released on 1976 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1812 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Art Index Retrospective written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 1812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1222 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book British Humanities Index written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 1222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Publisher : Philadelphia Museum (PA)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Art in Rome in the Eighteenth Century written by Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and published by Philadelphia Museum (PA). This book was released on 2000 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Caught between the Theatricality of the Baroque and the acute sensibility of Romanticism, art in Rome in the eighteenth century has long been a neglected area of study." "The grand scale and spectacular diversity of the period are comprehensively captured for the first time in this definitive history of the period, produced to accompany a major U.S. exhibition organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and documenting the work of over 150 artists. With over 450 illustrations, and texts by an outstanding array of experts from around the world, Art in Rome in the Eighteenth Century provides a massively authoritative survey of a fascinating era."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author : Christina Riggs
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199571457
Total Pages : 814 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Roman Egypt written by Christina Riggs and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-21 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook, arranged in seven thematic sections, is unique in drawing together many different strands of research on Roman Egypt, in order to suggest both the state of knowledge in the field and the possibilities for collaborative, synthetic, and interpretive research.
