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Renaissance Invention and the Haunted Infancy

Author : Alfred Acres
Publisher : Harvey Miller Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781905375714
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (757 download)

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Download or read book Renaissance Invention and the Haunted Infancy written by Alfred Acres and published by Harvey Miller Publishers. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renaissance Invention and the Haunted Infancy examines how and why a vast range of fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century European images of Christ's infancy allude either to his death or to the devil, and sometimes to both. Written as an essay on interpretation, the book addresses the bottomless ingenuity with which artists worked to embody two central yet ultimately elusive ideas: the sacrifice for which the Incarnation was necessary and evil poised to thwart the scheme of salvation. Because both are nominally nonexistent or suppressed in the moment pictured--a death not yet present for the Infant and a menace resisted by his coming--they convey absence or imminence in ways rarely attempted in earlier art. Although both kinds of allusion became pervasive in painting, prints, and sculpture and are widely familiar to modern observers, neither has ever been systematically addressed in art historical scholarship. With this gap as a core question, the study seeks answers among unmapped distances between Renaissance and modern approaches to meaning in religious images. Framed by an opening chapter that examines changing conceptions of subject matter and a concluding one that seeks to account for Renaissance fascination with these themes, the heart of the study is given to close scrutiny of an unusual variety of images (by such central figures as Bosch, Botticelli, Bruegel, Campin, Donatello, Gossaert, Michelangelo, and van der Weyden, among many others) and the means by which they engineer representation to guide singular kinds of thought. New perspectives emerge not only on certain core dynamics of meaning, but also on elementally related aims of a host of major works from the period.

The Quest for the Christ Child in the Later Middle Ages

Author : Mary Dzon
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812248848
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Book Synopsis The Quest for the Christ Child in the Later Middle Ages by : Mary Dzon

Download or read book The Quest for the Christ Child in the Later Middle Ages written by Mary Dzon and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2017-03-09 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning in the twelfth century, clergy and laity alike started wondering with intensity about the historical and developmental details of Jesus' early life. Was the Christ Child like other children, whose characteristics and capabilities depended on their age? Was he sweet and tender, or formidable and powerful? Not finding sufficient information in the Gospels, which are almost completely silent about Jesus' childhood, medieval Christians turned to centuries-old apocryphal texts for answers. In The Quest for the Christ Child in the Later Middle Ages, Mary Dzon demonstrates how these apocryphal legends fostered a vibrant and creative medieval piety. Popular tales about the Christ Child entertained the laity and at the same time were reviled by some members of the intellectual elite of the church. In either case, such legends, so persistent, left their mark on theological, devotional, and literary texts. The Cistercian abbot Aelred of Rievaulx urged his monastic readers to imitate the Christ Child's development through spiritual growth; Francis of Assisi encouraged his followers to emulate the Christ Child's poverty and rusticity; Thomas Aquinas, for his part, believed that apocryphal stories about the Christ Child would encourage youths to be presumptuous, while Birgitta of Sweden provided pious alternatives in her many Marian revelations. Through close readings of such writings, Dzon explores the continued transmission and appeal of apocryphal legends throughout the Middle Ages and demonstrates the significant impact that the Christ Child had in shaping the medieval religious imagination.

A New History of Western Art

Author : Koenraad Jonckheere
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300267525
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Book Synopsis A New History of Western Art by : Koenraad Jonckheere

Download or read book A New History of Western Art written by Koenraad Jonckheere and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2022-10-15 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A radical re-examination of 2,500 years of European art, deconstructing and demystifying its long history from ancient to present How has art evolved from the pursuit of the 'ideal' human form to a black square on a white canvas? Why is a banana duct-taped to a wall worth more on the art market than a beautiful seventeenth-century landscape? By taking art for what it actually is -- a piece of stone or wood, a sheet of paper with some lines drawn on it, a painted canvas -- this lively and accessible account shows how seemingly meaningless objects can be transformed into celebrated works of art. Breaking with conventional notions of artistic genius, Koenraad Jonckheere explores how stories and emotions give meaning to objects, and why changing historical circumstances result in such shifting opinions over time. Tracing its story from ancient times to present, A New History of Western Art reframes the evolution of European art and radically reshapes our understanding of art history. Published in association with Hannibal Books

The Agency of Female Typology in Italian Renaissance Paintings

Author : Edward J. Olszewski
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527512843
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Book Synopsis The Agency of Female Typology in Italian Renaissance Paintings by : Edward J. Olszewski

Download or read book The Agency of Female Typology in Italian Renaissance Paintings written by Edward J. Olszewski and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2023-06-30 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study employs cognitive theory as a heuristic framework to interrogate the agency of female types in select Italian Renaissance paintings, with emphasis on Venus, Medusa, the Amazon, Boccaccio's Lady Fiammetta/Cleopatra, Susanna, the Magdalene, and the Madonna. The study disrupts assumptions about the identity of sitters and readings of paintings as it challenges paradigms of female representation. It interrogates why certain paintings were crafted, by whom and for whom. Works are placed in the context of meta-painting, with stress on the cognitive decisions negotiated between patron and artist. The ludic aspects of several paintings are examined with a fine grain semiotic approach to expand their iconographies. Psychoanalytic readings are unpacked, based on the flawed mythological metaphors and incomplete clinical studies of Sigmund Freud's theorizing. The rubric of female agency is deliberately selected to unify popular but enigmatic master paintings of disparate subjects.

Religion and the Senses in Early Modern Europe

Author : Wietse de Boer
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004236341
Total Pages : 521 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Book Synopsis Religion and the Senses in Early Modern Europe by : Wietse de Boer

Download or read book Religion and the Senses in Early Modern Europe written by Wietse de Boer and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-11-16 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary volume examines the role of sensation in the religious transformations of early modern Europe. Sensation was both central to the doctrinal disputes of the Reformation and critical in shaping new or reformed devotional practices.

Art and Dis-illusion in the Long Sixteenth Century

Author : Larry Silver
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004504419
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)

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Book Synopsis Art and Dis-illusion in the Long Sixteenth Century by : Larry Silver

Download or read book Art and Dis-illusion in the Long Sixteenth Century written by Larry Silver and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dramatic changes during the Reformation era in Northern Europe, such as witchcraft and new global discoveries, are examined through visual culture, both prints and paintings.

Living Pictures

Author : Noa Turel
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300247575
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Living Pictures written by Noa Turel and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-25 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A significant new interpretation of the emergence of Western pictorial realism When Jan van Eyck (c. 1390–1441) completed the revolutionary Ghent Altarpiece in 1432, it was unprecedented in European visual culture. His novel visual strategies, including lifelike detail, not only helped make painting the defining medium of Western art, they also ushered in new ways of seeing the world. This highly original book explores Van Eyck’s pivotal work, as well as panels by Rogier van der Weyden and their followers, to understand how viewers came to appreciate a world depicted in two dimensions. Through careful examination of primary documents, Noa Turel reveals that paintings were consistently described as au vif: made not “from life” but “into life.” Animation, not representation, drove Van Eyck and his contemporaries. Turel’s interpretation reverses the commonly held belief that these artists were inspired by the era’s burgeoning empiricism, proposing instead that their “living pictures” helped create the conditions for empiricism. Illustrated with exquisite fifteenth-century paintings, this volume asserts these works’ key role in shaping, rather than simply mirroring, the early modern world.

Quid est sacramentum?

Author : Walter Melion
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004408940
Total Pages : 692 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Quid est sacramentum? written by Walter Melion and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-10-07 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Quid est sacramentum?’ Visual Representation of Sacred Mysteries in Early Modern Europe, 1400–1700 investigates how sacred mysteries (in Latin, sacramenta or mysteria) were visualized in a wide range of media, including illustrated religious literature such as catechisms, prayerbooks, meditative treatises, and emblem books, produced in Italy, France, and the Low Countries between ca. 1500 and 1700. The contributors ask why the mysteries of faith and, in particular, sacramental mysteries were construed as amenable to processes of representation and figuration, and why the resultant images were thought capable of engaging mortal eyes, minds, and hearts. Mysteries by their very nature appeal to the spirit, rather than to sense or reason, since they operate beyond the limitations of the human faculties; and yet, the visual and literary arts served as vehicles for the dissemination of these mysteries and for prompting reflection upon them. Contributors: David Areford, AnnMarie Micikas Bridges, Mette Birkedal Bruun, James Clifton, Anna Dlabačková, Wim François, Robert Kendrick, Aiden Kumler, Noria Litaker, Walter S. Melion, Lars Cyril Nørgaard, Elizabeth Pastan, Donna Sadler, Alexa Sand, Tanya Tiffany, Lee Palmer Wandel, Geert Warner, Bronwen Wilson, and Elliott Wise.

Leonardo’s Paradox

Author : Joost Keizer
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1789141028
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (891 download)

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Download or read book Leonardo’s Paradox written by Joost Keizer and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2019-06-15 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) was one of the preeminent figures of the Italian Renaissance. He was also one of the most paradoxical. He spent an incredible amount of time writing notebooks, perhaps even more time than he ever held a brush, yet at the same time Leonardo was Renaissance culture’s most fanatical critic of the word. When Leonardo criticized writing he criticized it as an expert on words; when he was painting, writing remained in the back of his brilliant mind. In this book, Joost Keizer argues that the comparison between word and image fueled Leonardo’s thought. The paradoxes at the heart of Leonardo’s ideas and practice also defined some of Renaissance culture’s central assumptions about culture and nature: that there is a look to script, that painting offered a path out of culture and back to nature, that the meaning of images emerged in comparison with words, and that the difference between image-making and writing also amounted to a difference in the experience of time.

The Endless Periphery

Author : Stephen J. Campbell
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022648159X
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book The Endless Periphery written by Stephen J. Campbell and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the masterpieces of the Italian Renaissance are usually associated with Italy’s historical seats of power, some of the era’s most characteristic works are to be found in places other than Florence, Rome, and Venice. They are the product of the diversity of regions and cultures that makes up the country. In Endless Periphery, Stephen J. Campbell examines a range of iconic works in order to unlock a rich series of local references in Renaissance art that include regional rulers, patron saints, and miracles, demonstrating, for example, that the works of Titian spoke to beholders differently in Naples, Brescia, or Milan than in his native Venice. More than a series of regional microhistories, Endless Periphery tracks the geographic mobility of Italian Renaissance art and artists, revealing a series of exchanges between artists and their patrons, as well as the power dynamics that fueled these exchanges. A counter history of one of the greatest epochs of art production, this richly illustrated book will bring new insight to our understanding of classic works of Italian art.

Thresholds and Boundaries

Author : Lynn F. Jacobs
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351608738
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Thresholds and Boundaries written by Lynn F. Jacobs and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-25 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although liminality has been studied by scholars of medieval and seventeenth-century art, the role of the threshold motif in Netherlandish art of the late fourteenth, fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries -- this late medieval/early ‘early modern’ period -- has been much less fully investigated. Thresholds and Boundaries: Liminality in Netherlandish Art (1385-1550) addresses this issue through a focus on key case studies (Sluter's portal of the Chartreuse de Champmol and the calendar pages of the Limbourg Brothers' Très Riches Heures), and on important formats (altarpieces and illuminated manuscripts). Lynn F. Jacobs examines how the visual thresholds established within Netherlandish paintings, sculptures, and manuscript illuminations become sites where artists could address relations between life and death, aristocrat and peasant, holy and profane, and man and God—and where artists could exploit the "betwixt and between" nature of the threshold to communicate, paradoxically, both connections and divisions between these different states and different worlds. Building on literary and anthropological interpretations of liminality, this book demonstrates how the exploration of boundaries in Netherlandish art infused the works with greater meaning. The book's probing of the -- often ignored --meanings of the threshold motif casts new light on key works of Netherlandish art.

Crazy Inventions Made During the Renaissance | Children's Renaissance History

Author : Baby Professor
Publisher : Speedy Publishing LLC
ISBN 13 : 1541907388
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book Crazy Inventions Made During the Renaissance | Children's Renaissance History written by Baby Professor and published by Speedy Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2017-02-15 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The renaissance period has so much to share and to teach today’s young children. This book is all about the crazy but really impressive inventions made during the said period. Bring renaissance back to life in the eyes of your little ones when you buy this book. Go ahead and get a copy today.

Gardens of Love and the Limits of Morality in Early Netherlandish Art

Author : Andrea Pearson
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004393102
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Gardens of Love and the Limits of Morality in Early Netherlandish Art written by Andrea Pearson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-02-26 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Gardens of Love and the Limits of Morality in Early Netherlandish Art, Andrea Pearson demonstrates how garden imagery defined bodily desire as a fundamental problem of human salvation, in which artists, patrons, and viewers alike had an interpretive stake.

The Embedded Portrait

Author : Christopher Wood
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 069124426X
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book The Embedded Portrait written by Christopher Wood and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-11-14 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A new study of the early Renaissance portrait"--

Center ... Record of Activities and Research Reports

Author : Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (U.S.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Center ... Record of Activities and Research Reports written by Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Modern Technologies Invented in the Renaissance | Children's Renaissance History

Author : Baby Professor
Publisher : Speedy Publishing LLC
ISBN 13 : 1541907280
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book Modern Technologies Invented in the Renaissance | Children's Renaissance History written by Baby Professor and published by Speedy Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2017-02-15 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything you see and experience these days started from small beginnings. Therefore, to truly appreciate the life you’re living today, you must first understand the origins of things. Listening to your history teacher and reading up on books from the past will help make that possible. But you don’t have to stick to your textbooks. Supplemental learning can also take place through books like these.

The Renaissance Inventors

Author : Alicia Z. Klepeis
Publisher : Renaissance for Kids
ISBN 13 : 9781619306851
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book The Renaissance Inventors written by Alicia Z. Klepeis and published by Renaissance for Kids. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who are some of the most important inventors of the Renaissance? In The Renaissance Inventors with History Projects for Kids, readers ages 10 through 15 explore the lives of some of the best-known inventors of the fourteenth through seventeenth centuries, including Leonardo da Vinci, Galileo Galilei, Leon Battista Alberti, Johannes Gutenberg, and Gerardus Mercator. Kids also dive into student-led STEAM activities to learn about the engineering design process and develop critical and creative thinking skills.