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The Wednesday Sisters

Author : Meg Waite Clayton
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0345502833
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (455 download)

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Download or read book The Wednesday Sisters written by Meg Waite Clayton and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2009-05-05 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Friendship, loyalty, and love lie at the heart of this beautifully written, poignant, and sweeping novel of five women who, over the course of four decades, come to redefine what it means to be family. “This generous and inventive book is a delight to read, an evocation of the power of friendship to sustain, encourage, and embolden us. Join the sisterhood!”—Karen Joy Fowler, author of The Jane Austen Book Club For thirty-five years, Frankie, Linda, Kath, Brett, and Ally have met every Wednesday at the park near their homes in Palo Alto, California. Defined when they first meet by what their husbands do, the young homemakers and mothers are far removed from the Summer of Love that has enveloped most of the Bay Area in 1967. These “Wednesday Sisters” seem to have little in common: Frankie is a timid transplant from Chicago, brutally blunt Linda is a remarkable athlete, Kath is a Kentucky debutante, quiet Ally has a secret, and quirky, ultra-intelligent Brett wears little white gloves with her miniskirts. But they are bonded by a shared love of both literature—Fitzgerald, Eliot, Austen, du Maurier, Plath, and Dickens–and the Miss America Pageant, which they watch together every year. As the years roll on and their children grow, the quintet forms a writers circle to express their hopes and dreams through poems, stories, and, eventually, books. Along the way, they experience history in the making: Vietnam, the race for the moon, and a women’s movement that challenges everything they have ever thought about themselves, while at the same time supporting one another through changes in their personal lives brought on by infidelity, longing, illness, failure, and success. Humorous and moving, The Wednesday Sisters is a literary feast for book lovers that earns a place among those popular works that honor the joyful, mysterious, unbreakable bonds between friends.

The Sistine Secrets

Author : Benjamin Blech
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061469041
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (614 download)

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Download or read book The Sistine Secrets written by Benjamin Blech and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2008-04-29 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five hundred years ago Michelangelo began work on a painting that became one of the most famous pieces of art in the world—the Sistine Chapel ceiling. Every year millions of people come to see Michelangelo's Sistine ceiling, which is the largest fresco painting on earth in the holiest of Christianity's chapels; yet there is not one single Christian image in this vast, magnificent artwork. The Sistine Secrets tells the fascinating story of how Michelangelo embedded messages of brotherhood, tolerance, and freethinking in his painting to encourage "fellow travelers" to challenge the repressive Roman Catholic Church of his time. "Driven by the truths he had come to recognize during his years of study in private nontraditional schooling in Florence, truths rooted in his involvement with Judaic texts as well as Kabbalistic training that conflicted with approved Christian doctrine, Michelangelo needed to find a way to let viewers discern what he truly believed. He could not allow the Church to forever silence his soul. And what the Church would not permit him to communicate openly, he ingeniously found a way to convey to those diligent enough to learn his secret language."—from the Preface Blech and Doliner reveal what Michelangelo meant in the angelic representations that brilliantly mocked his papal patron, how he managed to sneak unorthodox heresies into his ostensibly pious portrayals, and how he was able to fulfill his lifelong ambition to bridge the wisdom of science with the strictures of faith. The Sistine Secrets unearths secrets that have remained hidden in plain sight for centuries.

Michelangelo’s Finger: An Exploration of Everyday Transcendence

Author : Raymond Tallis
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 030016890X
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Michelangelo’s Finger: An Exploration of Everyday Transcendence written by Raymond Tallis and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2010-09-07 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A renowned British public intellectual illustrates how our unique ability to point the index finger has shaped our amazing evolutionary pathway as humansIn this startlingly original and persuasive book, Raymond Tallis shows that it is easy to underestimate the influence of small things in determining what manner of creatures humans are. He argues that the independent movement of the human index finger is one such easily overlooked factor. Indeed, not for nothing is the index finger called the “forefinger.” It is the finger we most naturally deploy when we want to pry objects out of small spaces, but it plays a far more significant role in an action unique to us among primates: pointing.Tallis argues that it is through pointing that the index finger made a significant contribution to the development of humans and to the creation of a human world separate from the rest of the natural world. Observing the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and the hugely familiar and awkward encounter between Michelangelo’s God and Man through their index fingers, Tallis identifies the artist’s intuitive awareness of the central role of the index finger in making us unique. Just as the reaching index fingers of God and Man are here made central to the creation of our kind, so Tallis believes that the seemingly simple act of pointing, which is used in a wide variety of ways, is central to our extraordinary evolution.

Quicksand

Author : Gigi Pandian
Publisher : Gargoyle Girl Productions
ISBN 13 : 1938213238
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (382 download)

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Download or read book Quicksand written by Gigi Pandian and published by Gargoyle Girl Productions. This book was released on 2023-04-21 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thousand-year-old secret room. A sultan’s stolen treasure. A missing French priest. And an invitation to Paris to rekindle an old flame... Historian Jaya Jones finds herself on the wrong side of the law during an art heist at the Louvre. To redeem herself, she follows clues from an illuminated manuscript that lead from the cobblestone streets of Paris to the quicksand-surrounded fortress of Mont Saint-Michel. With the help of enigmatic Lane Peters and a 90-year-old stage magician, Jaya delves into France's colonial past in India to clear her name and catch a killer.

Michelangelo and His Drawings

Author : Michael Hirst
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300047967
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (479 download)

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Download or read book Michelangelo and His Drawings written by Michael Hirst and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on the drawings of the artist famous for his sculptures and his work on the Sistine Chapel ceiling

Michelangelo

Author : Gerald Stanley Davies
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Michelangelo written by Gerald Stanley Davies and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Alchemist of Monsters and Mayhem

Author : Gigi Pandian
Publisher : Gargoyle Girl Productions
ISBN 13 : 1938213297
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (382 download)

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Download or read book The Alchemist of Monsters and Mayhem written by Gigi Pandian and published by Gargoyle Girl Productions. This book was released on 2023-10-10 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The seventh installment in the multi-award-winning Accidental Alchemist Mystery series! When the grand opening of enchanting tea shop The Alchemy of Tea leads to sabotage and murder, someone close to alchemist Zoe Faust is implicated in the crimes. As she and her gargoyle sidekick Dorian begin to investigate, they're plunged into an alchemical mystery at an eerie mansion high in the Portland hills, where the plants have teeth and the topiary have claws. Can Zoe and Dorian brew up a solution before it's too late to save their friends? “A mysterious highly atmospheric setting, family secrets, and a nod to Gothic literature make THE ALCHEMIST OF MONSTERS & MAYHEM a captivating and truly unique read. I absolutely loved it and can't wait for more books in the series.”—Cozy Up With Kathy “This unique series continues to be a pleasure to read as it blends an element of gothic… to these humorous and kindhearted mysteries.”—Kings River Life Magazine

Michelangelo’s Design Principles, Particularly in Relation to Those of Raphael

Author : Erwin Panofsky
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691165262
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book Michelangelo’s Design Principles, Particularly in Relation to Those of Raphael written by Erwin Panofsky and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-23 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: The discovery of the actual manuscript was featured on the front pages of the major German newspapers and reported throughout the world. It consists of 334 pages, typewritten, with extensive handwritten amendments, notes, and edits. According to Gerda Panofsky, her husbanded had continued to expand and edit the manuscript until 1922, and was preparing it for publication when he had to leave it behind. In this study, Panofsky provides a detailed analysis of Michelangelo's artistic style, comparing Michelangelo directly with Raphael, and then later taking a larger historical view. This text offers important new information about the evolution of Panofsky's scholarship, as well as on the state of research on Michelangelo and the High Renaissance during a period of transition for the discipline, in which formal readings of artworks began to take precedence over artists' biographies.

Oil and Marble

Author : Stephanie Storey
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1628726393
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (287 download)

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Download or read book Oil and Marble written by Stephanie Storey and published by Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From 1501 to 1505, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo Buonarroti both lived and worked in Florence. Leonardo was a charming, handsome fifty year-old at the peak of his career. Michelangelo was a temperamental sculptor in his mid-twenties, desperate to make a name for himself. The two despise each other."--Front jacket flap.

Michelangelo's Painting

Author : Leo Steinberg
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022648226X
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Michelangelo's Painting written by Leo Steinberg and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-12-31 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leo Steinberg was one of the most original art historians of the twentieth century, known for taking interpretive risks that challenged the profession by overturning reigning orthodoxies. In essays and lectures ranging from old masters to contemporary art, he combined scholarly erudition with an eloquent prose that illuminated his subject and a credo that privileged the visual evidence of the image over the literature written about it. His writings, sometimes provocative and controversial, remain vital and influential reading. For half a century, Steinberg delved into Michelangelo’s work, revealing the symbolic structures underlying the artist’s highly charged idiom. This volume of essays and unpublished lectures elucidates many of Michelangelo’s paintings, from frescoes in the Sistine Chapel to the Conversion of St. Paul and the Crucifixion of St. Peter, the artist’s lesser-known works in the Vatican’s Pauline Chapel; also included is a study of the relationship of the Doni Madonna to Leonardo. Steinberg’s perceptions evolved from long, hard looking. Almost everything he wrote included passages of old-fashioned formal analysis, but always put into the service of interpretation. He understood that Michelangelo’s rendering of figures, as well as their gestures and interrelations, conveys an emblematic significance masquerading under the guise of naturalism. Michelangelo pushed Renaissance naturalism into the furthest reaches of metaphor, using the language of the body to express fundamental Christian tenets once expressible only by poets and preachers. Leo Steinberg was one of the most original art historians of the twentieth century, known for taking interpretive risks that challenged the profession by overturning reigning orthodoxies. Michelangelo’s Painting is the second volume in a series that presents Steinberg’s writings, selected and edited by his longtime associate Sheila Schwartz.

James Joyce and the Problem of Psychoanalysis

Author : Luke Thurston
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 113945238X
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book James Joyce and the Problem of Psychoanalysis written by Luke Thurston and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-07-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its very beginning, psychoanalysis sought to incorporate the aesthetic into its domain. Despite Joyce's deliberate attempt in his writing to resist this powerful hermeneutic, his work has been confronted by a long tradition of psychoanalytic readings. Luke Thurston argues that this very antagonism holds the key to how psychoanalytic thinking can still open up new avenues in Joycean criticism and literary theory. In particular, Thurston shows that Jacques Lacan's response to Joyce goes beyond the 'application' of theory: rather than diagnosing Joyce's writing or claiming to have deciphered its riddles, Lacan seeks to understand how it can entail an unreadable signature, a unique act of social transgression that defies translation into discourse. Thurston imaginatively builds on Lacan's work to illuminate Joyce's place in a wide-ranging literary genealogy that includes Shakespeare, Hogg, Stevenson and Wilde. This study should be essential reading for all students of Joyce, literary theory and psychoanalysis.

Michelangelo's Mountain

Author : Eric Scigliano
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416591354
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Michelangelo's Mountain written by Eric Scigliano and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the fascinating, crucial, and often dangerous relationship between Michelangelo and the stone quarries of Carrara in this clear-eyed and well-researched exploration that “recounts the artist's large life and lasting works with care and reverence” (Booklist). No artist looms so large in Western consciousness and culture as Michelangelo Buonarroti, the most celebrated sculptor of all time. And no place on earth provides a stone so capable of simulating the warmth and vitality of human flesh and incarnating the genius of a Michelangelo as the statuario of Carrara, the storied marble mecca at Tuscany's northwest corner. It was there, where shadowy Etruscans and Roman slaves once toiled, that Michelangelo risked his life in dozens of harrowing expeditions to secure the precious stone for his Pietà, Moses, and other masterpieces. Many books have recounted Michelangelo’s achievements in Florence and Rome. Michelangelo’s Mountain goes beyond all of them, revealing his escapades and ordeals in the spectacular landscape that was the third pole of his tumultuous career and the third wellspring of his art. Eric Scigliano brings this haunting place and eternally fascinating artist to life in a sweeping tale peopled by popes and poets, mad dukes and mythic monsters, scheming courtiers and rough-hewn quarrymen. He recounts the saga of the David, the improbable masterpiece that Michelangelo created against all odds, of the twin Hercules that he tried to erect beside it, and of the Salieri-like nemesis who snatched away the commission, turning a sculptural testament to liberty into a bitter symbol of tyranny and giving Florence the colossus it loves to hate. In showing how the artist, land, and stone transformed one another, Scigliano brings fresh insight to Michelangelo's most cherished works and illuminates his struggles with the princes and potentates of Carrara, Rome, and Medici Florence, who raised intrigue to a high art.

In Michelangelo's Mirror

Author : Morten Steen Hansen
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271056401
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book In Michelangelo's Mirror written by Morten Steen Hansen and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Explores the imitation of Michelangelo by three artists, Perino del Vaga, Daniele da Volterra, and Pellegrino Tibaldi, from the 1520s to the time around Michelangelo's death in 1564. Argues that his Mannerist followers applied imitation to identify with and/or create ironical distance from to the older artist"--Provided by publisher.

Michelangelo's Seizure

Author : Steve Gehrke
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252074203
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Michelangelo's Seizure written by Steve Gehrke and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The following is a book of poems based on the lives of several classic and contemporary painters, including Michelangelo, Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Goya, Monet, Renoir, Magritte and many others. While the poems participate in the tradition of ekphrastic poetry, they also engage with each painters' biography, as a lens through which to see each work. In the poems, many of the painters are reacting to a dramatic loss, transforming the pain of personal tragedy into art.

Michelangelo's Notebook

Author : Paul Christopher
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101098708
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Michelangelo's Notebook written by Paul Christopher and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-06-07 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life may imitate art...but death follows it. While studying art history at New York University, brilliant and beautiful Finn Ryan makes a startling discovery: a Michelangelo drawing of a dissected corpse-supposedly from the artist's near-mythical notebook. But that very night, someone breaks into her apartment-murdering her boyfriend and stealing the sketches she made of the drawing. Fleeing for her life, Finn heads to the address her mother had given her for emergencies, where she finds the enigmatic antiquarian book dealer, Michael Valentine. Together, they embark on a desperate race through the city-and through the pages of history itself-to expose an electrifying secret from the final days of World War II-a secret that lies in the dark labyrinthine heart of the Vatican.

Michelangelo's Christian Mysticism

Author : Sarah Rolfe Prodan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110704376X
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Michelangelo's Christian Mysticism written by Sarah Rolfe Prodan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-14 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Sarah Rolfe Prodan examines the spiritual poetry of Michelangelo in light of three contexts: the Catholic Reformation movement, Renaissance Augustinianism, and the tradition of Italian religious devotion. Prodan combines a literary, historical, and biographical approach to analyze the mystical constructs and conceits in Michelangelo's poems, thereby deepening our understanding of the artist's spiritual life in the context of Catholic Reform in the mid-sixteenth century. Prodan also demonstrates how Michelangelo's poetry is part of an Augustinian tradition that emphasizes mystical and moral evolution of the self. Examining such elements of early modern devotion as prayer, lauda singing, and the contemplation of religious images, Prodan provides a unique perspective on the subtleties of Michelangelo's approach to life and to art. Throughout, Prodan argues that Michelangelo's art can be more deeply understood when considered together with his poetry, which points to a spirituality that deeply informed all of his production.

The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti

Author : John Addington Symonds
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti written by John Addington Symonds and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-25 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti" is a biographical work about one of the most prominent artists of the Renaissance, written by John Addington Symonds, a cultural historian known mostly for his work on the Renaissance, as well as numerous biographies of writers and artists. In his work, he gives a thorough description of the main periods of Michelangelo's personal and professional life. At the same time, the book offers a modern reader the best of two worlds: an insight into the personality of Michelangelo and an example of Victorian biographic literature.