Italian and Spanish Art, 1600-1750

by Robert Enggass
Italian and Spanish Art, 1600-1750
Author: Robert Enggass
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Total Pages: 256
Release: 1992
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780810110656
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The Baroque period was crucial for the development of art theory and the advancement of the artistic academy. This collection of primary sources brings this important period to life with significant documents and texts. It conveniently assembles major texts, which are otherwise available only in scattered publications. The lives of leading artists--Caravaggio, El Greco, among others---are discussed by their contemporaries, while Bellori, Galileo, Pascoli, and others write on art theory and practice. The documents provide fascinating glimpses of the period's artistic self-image.

Italian Art, 1500-1600

by Robert Klein
Italian Art, 1500-1600
Author: Robert Klein
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Total Pages: 220
Release: 1989
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780810108523
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Art and the cultured public - Documents on art and artists - Mid-century Venetian art criticism - Vasari - Art theory in the second half of the century - The Counter-Reformation - Artists, amateurs and collectors - On beauty.

Art Information and the Internet

by Lois Swan Jones
Art Information and the Internet
Author: Lois Swan Jones
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2013-12-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1135933383
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In the first book of its kind, art information expert Lois Swan Jones discusses how to locate visual and textual information on the Internet and how to evaluate and supplement that information with material from other formats--print sources, CD-ROMS, documentary videos, and microfiche sets--to produce excellent research results. The book is divided into three sections: Basic Information Formats; Types of Websites and How to Find Them; and How to Use Web Information. Jones discusses the strengths and limitations of Websites; scholarly and basic information resources are noted; and search strategies for finding pertinent Websites are included. Art Information and the Internet also discusses research methodology for studying art-historical styles, artists working in various media, individual works of art, and non-Western cultures--as well as art education, writing about art, problems of copyright, and issues concerning the buying and selling of art. This title will be periodically updated.

Artistic Circulation between Early Modern Spain and Italy

by Kelley Helmstutler Di Dio
Artistic Circulation between Early Modern Spain and Italy
Author: Kelley Helmstutler Di Dio
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 511
Release: 2020-01-27
Genre: Art
ISBN: 042988611X
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This collection of essays by major scholars in the field explores how the rich intersections between Italy and Spain during the early modern period resulted in a confluence of cultural ideals. Various means of exchange and convergence are explored through two main catalysts: humans—their trips or resettlements—and objects—such as books, paintings, sculptures, and prints. The visual and textual evidence of the transmission of ideas, iconographies and styles are examined, such as triumphal ephemera, treatises on painting, the social status of the artist, collections and their display, church decoration, and funerary monuments, providing a more nuanced understanding of the exchanges of styles, forms and ideals across southern Europe.

Italian Art, 1400-1500

by Creighton Gilbert
Italian Art, 1400-1500
Author: Creighton Gilbert
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1992
Genre: Art, Early Renaissance
ISBN: 9780810110342
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Creighton E. Gilbert captures the spirit of the early Renaissance in this remarkable collection of primary texts by and about artists of the fifteenth century. Italian Art makes a valuable contribution not only to the field of art history, but also to social and intellectual history. Almost all aspects of the life of the period--war, fashion, travel, communication--are documented. Revealing significant aspects of the practice of art, the process of patronage, and the way of life and social position of early Renaissance artists, Italian Art brings this fascinating period to life for students and scholars.

Italian Literature before 1900 in English Translation

by Robin Healey
Italian Literature before 1900 in English Translation
Author: Robin Healey
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 1185
Release: 2011-12-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1442658479
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Italian Literature before 1900 in English Translation provides the most complete record possible of texts from the early periods that have been translated into English, and published between 1929 and 2008. It lists works from all genres and subjects, and includes translations wherever they have appeared across the globe. In this annotated bibliography, Robin Healey covers over 5,200 distinct editions of pre-1900 Italian writings. Most entries are accompanied by useful notes providing information on authors, works, translators, and how the translations were received. Among the works by over 1,500 authors represented in this volume are hundreds of editions by Italy's most translated authors – Dante Alighieri, Machiavelli, and Boccaccio – and other hundreds which represent the author's only English translation. A significant number of entries describe works originally published in Latin. Together with Healey's Twentieth-Century Italian Literature in English Translation, this volume makes comprehensive information on translations accessible for schools, libraries, and those interested in comparative literature.

A Companion to Renaissance and Baroque Art

by Babette Bohn
A Companion to Renaissance and Baroque Art
Author: Babette Bohn
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 797
Release: 2012-01-02
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1118391519
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A Companion to Renaissance and Baroque Art provides a diverse, fresh collection of accessible, comprehensive essays addressing key issues for European art produced between 1300 and 1700, a period that might be termed the beginning of modern history. Presents a collection of original, in-depth essays from art experts that address various aspects of European visual arts produced from circa 1300 to 1700 Divided into five broad conceptual headings: Social-Historical Factors in Artistic Production; Creative Process and Social Stature of the Artist; The Object: Art as Material Culture; The Message: Subjects and Meanings; and The Viewer, the Critic, and the Historian: Reception and Interpretation as Cultural Discourse Covers many topics not typically included in collections of this nature, such as Judaism and the arts, architectural treatises, the global Renaissance in arts, the new natural sciences and the arts, art and religion, and gender and sexuality Features essays on the arts of the domestic life, sexuality and gender, and the art and production of tapestries, conservation/technology, and the metaphor of theater Focuses on Western and Central Europe and that territory's interactions with neighboring civilizations and distant discoveries Includes illustrations as well as links to images not included in the book

Baroque & Rococo

by Marco Bussagli
Baroque & Rococo
Author: Marco Bussagli
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2009
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781402759253
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An era of exuberant creativity is the focus of this magnificently illustrated, competitively priced new art book. Baroque art was characterized by unbridled emotion, intricate decorative flourishes, and a dramatic use of light, reaching its summit in works such as Bernini’s magnificent altarpiece, The Ecstasy of St. Theresa. Over time, this robust genre evolved into the more ornate and sensuously playful Rococo, a style epitomized by the opulent paintings of Watteau. This beautifully produced exploration of both movements guides the reader through more than a century of art history--exploring the lives and works of sculptors such as Bernini, painters such as Watteau, Boucher, Rubens, and Hogarth, and architects such as Christopher Wren.