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Author : David Roy Wright
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1734 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (789 download)
Download or read book The Medici Villa at Olmo a Castello written by David Roy Wright and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 1734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Roy Wright
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (312 download)
Download or read book The Medici Villa at Olmo a Castello written by David Roy Wright and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Roy Wright
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 952 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Medici Villa at Olmo a Castello written by David Roy Wright and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 952 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Amanda Lillie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521770477
Total Pages : 734 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Florentine Villas in the Fifteenth Century written by Amanda Lillie and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-04-18 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, which was originally published in 2005, Amanda Lillie challenges the urban bias in Renaissance art and architectural history by investigating the architecture and patronage strategies, particularly those of the Strozzi and the Sassetti clans, in the Florentine countryside during the fifteenth century. Based entirely on archival material that remained unpublished at the time of publication, her book examines a number of villas from this period and reconstructs the value systems that emerge from these sources, which defy the traditional, idealized interpretation of the 'renaissance villa'. Here, the house is studied in relation to the families who lived in them and to the land that surrounded them. The villa emerges as a functional, utilitarian farming unit upon whose success families depended, and where dynastic and patrimonial values could be nurtured.
Author : Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 1512821586
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (128 download)
Download or read book Medici Gardens written by Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2017-03-31 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medici Gardens challenges the common assumption that such gardens as Trebbio, Cafaggiolo, Careggi, and Fiesole were the products of an established design practice whereby one client commissioned one architect or artist. The book suggests that in the case of the gardens in Florence garden making preceded its theoretical articulation.
Author : Keith Christiansen
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 1588397300
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)
Download or read book The Medici: Portraits and Politics 1512–1570 written by Keith Christiansen and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2021-04-19 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1512 and 1570, Florence underwent dramatic political transformations. As citizens jockeyed for prominence, portraits became an essential means not only of recording a likeness but also of conveying a sitter’s character, social position, and cultural ambitions. This fascinating book explores the ways that painters (including Jacopo Pontormo, Agnolo Bronzino, and Francesco Salviati), sculptors (such as Benvenuto Cellini), and artists in other media endowed their works with an erudite and self-consciously stylish character that made Florentine portraiture distinctive. The Medici family had ruled Florence without interruption between 1434 and 1494. Following their return to power in 1512, Cosimo I de’ Medici, who became the second Duke of Florence in 1537, demonstrated a particularly shrewd ability to wield culture as a political tool in order to transform Florence into a dynastic duchy and give Florentine art the central position it has held ever since. Featuring more than ninety remarkable paintings, sculptures, works on paper, and medals, this volume is written by a team of leading international authors and presents a sweeping, penetrating exploration of a crucial and vibrant period in Italian art.
Author : Grazia Gobbi Sica
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134067178
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)
Download or read book The Florentine Villa written by Grazia Gobbi Sica and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-12-13 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholarly and innovative with visually stunning line drawings and photographs, this volume provides readers with a compelling record of the unbroken pattern of reciprocal use and exchange between the countryside and the walled city of Florence, from the thirteenth century up to the present day. Defying the traditional and idealized interpretation of the Florentine Villa, the author: analyzes the economic factors that powered the investment in and building of country houses and estates from the early Renaissance times onwards, as well as the ideology and the architectural and literary models that promoted the Florentine villa explores the area between Florence and Sesto in its history, morphology and representation looks at the villas existing in the area. A contribution to the protection of the important cultural heritage of the landscape in the Florentine area and of its historic buildings, villas and gardens, this study makes engaging reading, not only for scholars and students in architecture, landscape design and social history, but also for the well informed reader interested in art, architecture and gardens.
Author : Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Medici Gardens of Fifteenth-century Florence written by Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cristina Acidini
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300094954
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (949 download)
Download or read book The Medici, Michelangelo, & the Art of Late Renaissance Florence written by Cristina Acidini and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Publisdhed in conjuntion with the exhibition: Magnificenza! the Medici, Michelangelo, & the Art of Late Renaissance Florence (In Italy, L'Ombra del genio: Michelangelo e l'arte a Firenze, 1538-1631) ..."--Title page verso.
Author : John Dixon Hunt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521443531
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (435 download)
Download or read book The Italian Garden written by John Dixon Hunt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-11-28 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Italian gardens vary widely according to their historical date and geographic location. This collection approaches Italian gardens of all periods, from the middle ages to modern times, and it ranges widely throughout the peninsula, from Genoa to Sicily, the Veneto to Liguria, and Ferrara to Florence. The authors are a distinguished group of Italian, American, English and German scholars, with different backgrounds in art history, literature, architecture, planning, and cultural history. The explorations of the subject from these different perspectives illuminate not only their own disciplines, but are concerned to make many fresh connections between garden art and the politics of nationalism, between the art of gardens and urban infrastructure, between cultural movements like freemasonry and site planning, between design and planting materials. The book offers therefore a narrative of the garden by selecting ten high points of its history, which are introduced with a consideration by the volume editor of the fresh challenges to contemporary Italian garden history.
Author : Peggy Fogelman
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 0892366893
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (923 download)
Download or read book Italian and Spanish Sculpture written by Peggy Fogelman and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2002-12-26 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The catalogue is abundantly illustrated, including multiple views of each sculpture."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Gabrielle Langdon
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 0802038255
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Medici Women written by Gabrielle Langdon and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ducal court of Cosimo I de' Medici in sixteenth-century Florence was one of absolutist, rule-bound order. Portraiture especially served the dynastic pretensions of the absolutist ruler, Duke Cosimo and his consort, Eleonora di Toledo, and was part of a Herculean programme of propaganda to establish legitimacy and prestige for the new sixteenth-century Florentine court. In this engaging and original study, Gabrielle Langdon analyses selected portraits of women by Jacopo Pontormo, Agnolo Bronzino, Alessandro Allori, and other masters. She defines their function as works of art, as dynastic declarations, and as encoded documents of court culture and propaganda, illuminating Cosimo's conscious fashioning of his court portraiture in imitation of the great courts of Europe. Langdon explores the use of portraiture as a vehicle to express Medici political policy, such as with Cosimo's Hapsburg and Papal alliances in his bid to be made Grand Duke with hegemony over rival Italian princes. Stories from archives, letters, diaries, chronicles, and secret ambassadorial briefs, open up a world of fascinating, personalities, personal triumphs, human frailty, rumour, intrigue, and appalling tragedies. Lavishly illustrated, Medici Women: Portraits of Power, Love and Betrayal in the Court of Duke Cosimo I is an indispensable work for anyone with a passion for Italian renaissance history, art, and court culture.
Author : Pierre de la Ruffinière du Prey
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226173009
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (73 download)
Download or read book The Villas of Pliny from Antiquity to Posterity written by Pierre de la Ruffinière du Prey and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pierre de la Ruffinière du Prey traces the influence of Pliny the Younger as a continuous theme throughout the history of architecture. First he looks at what Pliny considered to be the essential qualities of a villa. He then discusses the many buildings Pliny inspired: from the Renaissance estates of the Medici, to papal summer residences near Rome, to Thomas Jefferson's Monticello, and the home of former Canadian prime minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau. Equally important to du Prey's study are the many designs by architects past and present that remain on paper. These imaginary restitutions of Pliny's villas, each representative of its own epoch, trace in microcosm the evolution of the classical tradition in domestic architecture. In analyzing each project, du Prey illuminates the work of such great masters as Michelozzo, Raphael, Palladio, and Schinkel, as well as such well-known modern architects as Léon Krier, Jean-Pierre Adam, and Thomas Gordon Smith.
Author : Felicia M. Else
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429890354
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)
Download or read book The Politics of Water in the Art and Festivals of Medici Florence written by Felicia M. Else and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-07-27 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the story of one dynasty's struggle with water, to control its flow and manage its representation. The role of water in the art and festivals of Cosimo I and his heirs, Francesco I and Ferdinando I de' Medici, informs this richly-illustrated interdisciplinary study. Else draws on a wealth of visual and documentary material to trace how the Medici sought to harness the power of Neptune, whether in the application of his imagery or in the control over waterways and maritime frontiers, as they negotiated a place in the unstable political arena of Europe, and competed with foreign powers more versed in maritime traditions and aquatic imagery.
Author : Kelley Harness
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226316598
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)
Download or read book Echoes of Women's Voices written by Kelley Harness and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2006-02-15 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harness argues very convincingly that through their patronage of the figurative arts, musical theater, and early opera, the Medici women reinforced their position and their image as powerful women and capable rulers.
Author : Stefanie Lee Solum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Lucrezia's Saint written by Stefanie Lee Solum and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : SivToveKulbrandstad Walker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351549138
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)
Download or read book Sense and the Senses in Early Modern Art and Cultural Practice written by SivToveKulbrandstad Walker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Employing a wide range of approaches from various disciplines, contributors to this volume explore the diverse ways in which European art and cultural practice from the fourteenth through the seventeenth centuries confronted, interpreted, represented and evoked the realm of the sensual. Sense and the Senses in Early Modern Art and Cultural Practice investigates how the faculties of sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell were made to perform in a range of guises in early modern cultural practice: as agents of indulgence and pleasure, as bearers of information on material reality, as mediators between the mind and the outer world, and even as intercessors between humans and the divine. The volume examines not only aspects of the arts of painting and sculpture but also extends into other spheres: philosophy, music and poetry, gardens, food, relics and rituals. Collectively, the essays gathered here form a survey of key debates and practices attached to the theme of the senses in Renaissance and Baroque art and cultural practice.
