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Author : Piero Misciattelli
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Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The Piccolomini Library in the Cathedral of Siena written by Piero Misciattelli and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alessandro Angelini
Publisher : Franco Cosimo Panini
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book La Libreria Piccolomini nel Duomo di Siena written by Alessandro Angelini and published by Franco Cosimo Panini. This book was released on 1998 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time this fresco cycle - of remarkable pictorial quality - is fully illustrated in all in inexhaustible narrative and chromatic richness. Text in English and Italian
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Total Pages : 63 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (299 download)
Download or read book The Piccolomini Library in the Cathedral of Siena written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (86 download)
Download or read book The Piccolomini Library in the Cathedral of Siena written by and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : A. Lawrence Jenkens
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271090871
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Renaissance Siena written by A. Lawrence Jenkens and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2005-07-25 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The art of Renaissance Siena is usually viewed in the light of developments and accomplishments achieved elsewhere, but Sienese artists were part of a dynamic dialogue that was shaped by their city’s internal political turmoil, diplomatic relationships with its neighbors, internal social hierarchies, and struggle for self-definition. These essays lead scholars in a new and exciting direction in the study of the art of Renaissance Siena, exploring the cultural dynamics of the city and its art in a specifically Sienese context. This volume shapes a new understanding of Sienese culture in the early modern period and defines the questions scholars will continue to ask for years to come. What emerges is a picture of Renaissance Siena as a city focused on meeting the challenges of the time while formulating changes to shape its future. Central to these changes are the city’s efforts to fashion a civic identity through the visual arts.
Author : Hisham Matar
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 059312913X
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (931 download)
Download or read book A Month in Siena written by Hisham Matar and published by Random House. This book was released on 2019-10-22 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Return comes a profoundly moving contemplation of the relationship between art and life. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND EVENING STANDARD After finishing his powerful memoir The Return, Hisham Matar, seeking solace and pleasure, traveled to Siena, Italy. Always finding comfort and clarity in great art, Matar immersed himself in eight significant works from the Sienese School of painting, which flourished from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries. Artists he had admired throughout his life, including Duccio and Ambrogio Lorenzetti, evoke earlier engagements he’d had with works by Caravaggio and Poussin, and the personal experiences that surrounded those moments. Including beautiful full-color reproductions of the artworks, A Month in Siena is about what occurred between Matar, those paintings, and the city. That month would be an extraordinary period in the writer’s life: an exploration of how art can console and disturb in equal measure, as well as an intimate encounter with a city and its inhabitants. This is a gorgeous meditation on how centuries-old art can illuminate our own inner landscape—current relationships, long-lasting love, grief, intimacy, and solitude—and shed further light on the present world around us. Praise for A Month in Siena “As exquisitely structured as The Return, driven by desire, yearning, loss, illuminated by the kindness of strangers. A Month in Siena is a triumph.”—Peter Carey
Author : Alexander Lee
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1447275012
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (472 download)
Download or read book Machiavelli written by Alexander Lee and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2020-03-19 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A wonderfully assured and utterly riveting biography that captures not only the much-maligned Machiavelli, but also the spirit of his time and place. A monumental achievement.' – Jessie Childs, author of God's Traitors. ‘A notorious fiend’, ‘generally odious’, ‘he seems hideous, and so he is.’ Thanks to the invidious reputation of his most famous work, The Prince, Niccolò Machiavelli exerts a unique hold over the popular imagination. But was Machiavelli as sinister as he is often thought to be? Might he not have been an infinitely more sympathetic figure, prone to political missteps, professional failures and personal dramas? Alexander Lee reveals the man behind the myth, following him from cradle to grave, from his father’s penury and the abuse he suffered at a teacher’s hands, to his marriage and his many affairs (with both men and women), to his political triumphs and, ultimately, his fall from grace and exile. In doing so, Lee uncovers hitherto unobserved connections between Machiavelli’s life and thought. He also reveals the world through which Machiavelli moved: from the great halls of Renaissance Florence to the court of the Borgia pope, Alexander VI, from the dungeons of the Stinche prison to the Rucellai gardens, where he would begin work on some of his last great works. As much a portrait of an age as of a uniquely engaging man, Lee’s gripping and definitive biography takes the reader into Machiavelli’s world – and his work – more completely than ever before.
Author : Aldo Lusini
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Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book The Cathedral of Siena written by Aldo Lusini and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : University of Michigan. Museum of Art
Publisher : UM Libraries
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Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Bulletin written by University of Michigan. Museum of Art and published by UM Libraries. This book was released on 2005 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : LauraJ Whatley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351545264
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)
Download or read book The Crusades and Visual Culture written by LauraJ Whatley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The crusades, whether realized or merely planned, had a profound impact on medieval and early modern societies. Numerous scholars in the fields of history and literature have explored the influence of crusading ideas, values, aspirations and anxieties in both the Latin States and Europe. However, there have been few studies dedicated to investigating how the crusading movement influenced and was reflected in medieval visual cultures. Written by scholars from around the world working in the domains of art history and history, the essays in this volume examine the ways in which ideas of crusading were realized in a broad variety of media (including manuscripts, cartography, sculpture, mural paintings, and metalwork). Arguing implicitly for recognition of the conceptual frameworks of crusades that transcend traditional disciplinary boundaries, the volume explores the pervasive influence and diverse expression of the crusading movement from the twelfth through the fifteenth centuries.
Author : Lilian H. Zirpolo
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538123045
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)
Download or read book Michelangelo written by Lilian H. Zirpolo and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-08-09 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michelangelo: A Reference Guide to His Life and Works cover the life and works of Michelangelo Buonarroti. Michelangelo is considered to be one of the greatest masters in history and he produced some of the most notable icons of civilization, including the Sistine Ceiling frescoes, the Moses, and the Pietà at St. Peter’s. Includes a detailed chronology of Michelangelo’s life, family, and work. The A to Z section includes the major events, places, and people in Michelangelo’s life and the complete works of his sculptures, paintings, architectural designs, drawings, and poetry. The bibliography includes a list of publications concerning his life and work. The index thoroughly cross-references the chronological and encyclopedic entries.
Author : William Rotch Ware
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Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Topical Architecture: Renaissance doorways, Italian 1 written by William Rotch Ware and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stratton Devon Green
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Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (33 download)
Download or read book The Context and Function of the Piccolomini Library and Its Frescoes written by Stratton Devon Green and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 : Edmund G. Gardner
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Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Story of Siena and San Gimignano written by Edmund G. Gardner and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arthur White
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 0813226813
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (132 download)
Download or read book Plague and Pleasure written by Arthur White and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2014-12 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plague and Pleasure is a lively popular history that introduces a new hypothesis about the impetus behind the cultural change in Renaissance Italy. The Renaissance coincided with a period of chronic, constantly recurring plague, unremitting warfare and pervasive insecurity. Consequently, people felt a need for mental escape to alternative, idealized realities, distant in time or space from the unendurable present but made vivid to the imagination through literature, art, and spectacle.
Author : G K Chesterton
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141963263
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)
Download or read book Father Brown Stories written by G K Chesterton and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2007-07-26 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Immortalized in these famous stories, G. K. Chesterton's endearing amateur sleuth has entertained countless generations of readers. For, as his admirers know, Father Brown's cherubic face and unworldly simplicity, his glasses and his huge umbrella, disguise a quite uncanny understanding of the criminal mind at work. This edition includes seven tales from a number of G. K. Chesterton's 'Father Brown' books.
