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Author : Anna Mazzanti
Publisher : Scala Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (6 download)
Download or read book The Art of Florence in Its Great Museums written by Anna Mazzanti and published by Scala Group. This book was released on 1997 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Maria Siponta De Salvia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (135 download)
Download or read book Florence, the Great Museums written by Maria Siponta De Salvia and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is dedicated to all art lovers and tourists who like to be informed before visiting museums or who like to relive the experience later, on the written page. Original in style, the guide describes works of art in simple, enthusiastic and interesting way. Not only is the leader lead around each of the museums, he is also given a taste of the artistic and historical background to Florence, gradually giving him an insight into the great works of art. The text is accompanied by many illustrations which are often the only lasting visual records available where rooms maybe temporarily closed to the public.
Author : Judith Testa
Publisher : Northern Illinois University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501756745
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book An Art Lover's Guide to Florence written by Judith Testa and published by Northern Illinois University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-15 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No city but Florence contains such an intense concentration of art produced in such a short span of time. The sheer number and proximity of works of painting, sculpture, and architecture in Florence can be so overwhelming that Florentine hospitals treat hundreds of visitors each year for symptoms brought on by trying to see them all, an illness famously identified with the French author Stendhal. While most guidebooks offer only brief descriptions of a large number of works, with little discussion of the historical background, Judith Testa gives a fresh perspective on the rich and brilliant art of the Florentine Renaissance in An Art Lover's Guide to Florence. Concentrating on a number of the greatest works, by such masters as Botticelli and Michelangelo, Testa explains each piece in terms of what it meant to the people who produced it and for whom they made it, deftly treating the complex interplay of politics, sex, and religion that were involved in the creation of those works. With Testa as a guide, armchair travelers and tourists alike will delight in the fascinating world of Florentine art and history.
Author : Jane Fortune
Publisher : B'gruppo
ISBN 13 : 9788897696001
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (96 download)
Download or read book Art by Women in Florence written by Jane Fortune and published by B'gruppo. This book was released on 2012 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anja Grebe
Publisher :
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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Florence written by Anja Grebe and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A comprehensive book on the paintings and frescoes of Florence, with more than 2,000 artworks from the city's great museums and churches"--
Author : Source Wikipedia
Publisher : University-Press.org
ISBN 13 : 9781230556178
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (561 download)
Download or read book Museums in Florence written by Source Wikipedia and published by University-Press.org. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 21. Chapters: Art museums and galleries in Florence, Uffizi, Palazzo Pitti, Palazzo Vecchio, Medici Chapel, Bargello, Brancacci Chapel, Accademia di Belle Arti Firenze, San Marco, Florence, Museo di Storia Naturale di Firenze, La Specola, Museo Galileo, Tribuna of the Uffizi. Excerpt: The Palazzo Pitti (Italian pronunciation: ), in English sometimes called the Pitti Palace, is a vast mainly Renaissance palace in Florence, Italy. It is situated on the south side of the River Arno, a short distance from the Ponte Vecchio. The core of the present palazzo dates from 1458 and was originally the town residence of Luca Pitti, an ambitious Florentine banker. The palace was bought by the Medici family in 1549 and became the chief residence of the ruling families of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany. It grew as a great treasure house as later generations amassed paintings, plates, jewelry and luxurious possessions. In the late 18th century, the palazzo was used as a power base by Napoleon, and later served for a brief period as the principal royal palace of the newly united Italy. The palace and its contents were donated to the Italian people by King Victor Emmanuel III in 1919, and its doors were opened to the public as one of Florence's largest art galleries. Today, it houses several minor collections in addition to those of the Medici family, and is fully open to the public. Luca Pitti (1398-1472) began work on the palazzo in 1458. Eleonora di Toledo, Duchess of Florence, bought the palazzo from the Pitti in 1549 for the Medici. Portrait after Bronzino.The construction of this severe and forbidding building was commissioned in 1458 by the Florentine banker Luca Pitti, a principal supporter and friend of Cosimo de' Medici. The early history of the Palazzo Pitti is a mixture of fact and myth. Pitti is alleged to have instructed that the...
Author : Alexandra Bonfante-Warren
Publisher : Hugh Lauter Levin Associates
ISBN 13 : 9780883635124
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (351 download)
Download or read book The Uffizi Gallery Museum written by Alexandra Bonfante-Warren and published by Hugh Lauter Levin Associates. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Florence’s Uffizi Gallery, on which construction began in 1560, houses such masterpieces as Botticelli's The Birth of Venus, as well as works by Bronzino, Caravaggio, Titian, and Rubens. Connected to the Pitti Palace by a corridor designed by Vasari that crosses the Arno River, the Uffizi Gallery is a one-of-a-kind museum. This gorgeous oversize book showcases the extraordinary collection, and Alexandra Bonfante-Warren provides fascinating context by relating the story of the museum’s construction and complex history.
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 : Kathryn Hinds
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish
ISBN 13 : 9780761444831
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (448 download)
Download or read book Everyday Life in the Renaissance written by Kathryn Hinds and published by Marshall Cavendish. This book was released on 2010 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume looks at all aspects of life during the of Renaissance period.
Author : Maria S. De Salvia Baldini
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788885957121
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (571 download)
Download or read book Florence written by Maria S. De Salvia Baldini and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In pages made for the small hands of children, great art scales down to their size, and opens up a world full of hidden treasures in the museums of Florence.
Author : Ilaria Taddei
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Art Treasures of Florence written by Ilaria Taddei and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gloria Fossi
Publisher : Giunti Editore
ISBN 13 : 9788809045095
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)
Download or read book Art in Florence written by Gloria Fossi and published by Giunti Editore. This book was released on 2006 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The birthplace of the Renaissance, Florence is famous the world over for its cultural and artistic heritage. From its great masterpieces to its hidden gems, and from magnificent churches to its multitude of museums, this illustrated volume offers a guide to the city's art and history.
Author : Maud Cruttwell
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781016054997
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (549 download)
Download or read book A Guide to the Paintings in the Churches and Minor Museums of Florence written by Maud Cruttwell and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Michael Hirst
Publisher : National Gallery Publications Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780300061352
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (613 download)
Download or read book The Young Michelangelo written by Michael Hirst and published by National Gallery Publications Limited. This book was released on 1994 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Hirst's chapters are followed by Jill Dunkerton's survey of Michelangelo's technique as a painter on panel, using both egg tempera and oil paint, based on the investigation of his paintings in the National Gallery. Included in the discussion is Michelangelo's slightly later Doni Tondo in the Uffizi, Florence, his only completed panel painting and one of the most perfect of his works. Dunkerton also looks back to the paintings by Ghirlandaio and his workshop in which Michelangelo was trained. Her illuminating text helps us to understand how Michelangelo executed these two familiar but relatively little-studied paintings and also to envisage the startling finished appearance probably conceived by the artist.
Author : Luciano Berti
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Florence, the City and Its Art written by Luciano Berti and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Clark
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0385528345
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)
Download or read book Dark Water written by Robert Clark and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2008-10-07 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Birthplace of Michelangelo and home to untold masterpieces, Florence is a city for art lovers. But on November 4, 1966, the rising waters of the Arno threatened to erase over seven centuries of history and human achievement. Now Robert Clark explores the Italian city’s greatest flood and its aftermath through the voices of its witnesses. Two American artists wade through the devastated beauty; a photographer stows away on an army helicopter to witness the tragedy first-hand; a British “mud angel” spends a month scraping mold from the world’s masterpieces; and, through it all, an author asks why art matters so very much to us, even in the face of overwhelming disaster.
Author : Antonio Paolucci
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Great Museums of Europe written by Antonio Paolucci and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These eight emblematic museums all show their roots in the 18th century European idea of an institution representing the complete development of human culture in a microcosm. Each of the eight chapters here recounts the history of an individual museum by traveling through its entire history on a path to the collections' masterpieces, presented as an easy-to-follow-path of spectacular photographs and captions. Diverse as their present-day collections may be, the purest form of the museum can be seen at the core of each institution, starting with the Vatican Museums; on to the Russian Imperial Collections in the citadel of the Hermitage in Saint Petersburg; in the Hapsburg Collections, assembled in the Kunsthistorisches Museum of Vienna. The Bourbon Collections now in Museo del Prado in Madrid, The Napoleonic dream of "the Universal Museum," leads to the present-day structure of the Louvre in Paris, as well as its counterpart, the British Museum in London, founded to accommodate the marble sculptures from the Parthenon that Lord Elgin brought back from Athens. And finally, the ambition to create a citadel of culture, a new Acropolis of universal knowledge, is fully present in the Prussian museum system built on the Museumsinsel in Berlin and, on a smaller scale, in the Rijksmuseum of Amsterdam. "Great Museums of Europe" recaptures a grand impulse of Western civilization: that our great achievements in art are a story that can and must be preserved in a comprehensive way so that it is told forever.
