The Springtime of the Renaissance: Sculpture and the Arts in Florence 1400-60
Автор: Gordon Dillian Название: Italian Paintings Before 1400 ISBN: 1857094824 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781857094824 Издательство: Wiley yUP Рейтинг: Цена: 12375.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: he National Gallery houses one of the most important collections of early Italian paintings outside Italy, including works by Cimabue, Duccio, Ugolino di Nerio, Giotto, Bernardo Daddi and the Cioni brothers. This title presents an account of the substantial body of research published over the years.
Описание: This intriguing book explores how ordinary people in traditional China used contracts to facilitate the transactions of their daily lives, as they bought, sold, rented, or borrowed land, livestock, people, or money. In the process it illuminates specific everyday concerns during China's medieval transformation. Valerie Hansen translates and analyzes surviving contracts and also draws on tales of the supernatural, rare legal sources, plays, language texts, and other anecdotal evidence to describe how contracts were actually used. She explains that the educated wrote their own contracts, whereas the illiterate paid scribes to draft them and read them aloud. The contracts reveal much about everyday life: problems with inflation that resulted from the introduction of the first paper money in the world; the persistence of women's rights to own and sell land at a time when their lives were becoming more constricted; and the litigiousness of families, which were complicated products of remarriages, adoptions, and divorces. The Chinese even armed their dead with contracts asserting ownership of their grave plots, and Hansen provides details of an underworld court system in which the dead could sue and be sued. Illustrations and maps enrich a book that will be fascinating for anyone interested in Chinese life and society.
Автор: Wardropper Ian Название: European Sculpture, 1400-1900 ISBN: 0300175892 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780300175899 Издательство: Wiley yUP Рейтинг: Цена: 7425.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Features masterpieces of sculpture from the Renaissance through the 19th century.
Автор: Boehm Barbara Drake, Holcomb Melanie Название: Jerusalem, 1000-1400: Every People Under Heaven ISBN: 1588395987 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781588395986 Издательство: Wiley yUP Рейтинг: Цена: 8250.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A comprehensive and timely exploration of the key role Jerusalem played in shaping the art and culture of the Middle Ages
Описание: Durer and Beyond presents a selection of 100 works from the Metropolitan Museum's outstanding collection of German, Swiss, Austrian, and Bohemian drawings. Featured are numerous drawings by Albrecht Durer, including his celebrated study sheet with a self-portrait. In addition to drawings by major artists such as Martin Schongauer, Albrecht Altdorfer, Urs Graf, Hans Holbein the Younger, Friedrich Sustris, and Wenceslaus Hollar, the selection also highlights work by lesser known but equally superb draftsmen from the 14th to the end of the 17th century.
Richly illustrated and fully documented with artist biographies, comparative illustrations, and enlightening commentary on the variety, quality, and purpose of the featured drawings, this book makes a significant scholarly contribution to a field that has not been widely explored.
Описание: Exploring the relationship between image and text, this title considers how both media aided the development and transmission of scientific knowledge. Presenting images found throughout Europe in works on natural history, medicine, horticulture and garden design, and studies of birds, and animals, it emphasizes their artistic and scientific value.
Автор: Roxburgh Название: Persian Album 1400-1600 ISBN: 0300103255 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780300103250 Издательство: Wiley yUP Цена: 6188.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This groundbreaking book examines portable art collections assembled in the courts of Greater Iran in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Made for members
of the royal families or ruling elites, albums were created to preserve and display art, yet they were conceptualised in different ways. David Roxburgh, a leading expert on Persian albums
and the art of the book, discusses this diversity and demonstrates convincingly that to look at the practice of album making is to open a vista to a culture of thought about the Persian
art tradition.
The book considers the album's formal and physical properties, assembly, and content, as well as the viewer's experience. Focusing on seven albums created
during the Timurid and Safavid dynasties, Roxburgh reconstructs the history and development of this codex form and uses the works of art to explore notions of how art and aesthetics
were conceived in Persian court culture. Generously illustrated with over 175 images, many rare and previously unpublished, the book offers a range of new insights into Persian visual
culture as well as Islamic art history.
Автор: Davies Название: Italian Schools Before 1400 ISBN: 1857099184 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781857099188 Издательство: Wiley yUP Цена: 4125.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
The great Venetian sculptors of the High Renaissance, led by Tullio Lombardo (c. 1455-1532), explored a poetic and nostalgic approach to classical antiquity in their work. Their expression shares much with Mantegna, Bellini, Giorgione, and Titian in these painters' imaginative evocations of ancient history, mythology, philosophy, and poetry.
Featuring a range of Tullio's work, including his sensuous and dramatic double-portrait reliefs, this book introduces the romantic qualities and beautiful craftsmanship of the sculptor and his closest followers, including his brother Antonio Lombardo, Simone Bianco, Antonio Minello, and Giammaria Mosca. Essays examine Tullio's innovations and the Venetian cultural setting where he developed them in dialogue with the northern Italian masters of Renaissance painting. Twelve works, carefully selected from this milieu, exemplify the creative approach and influ-ence of Tullio and the Lombardo workshop.
