Luxury Arts of the Renaissance

Luxury Arts of the Renaissance
Title Luxury Arts of the Renaissance PDF eBook
Author Marina Belozerskaya
Publisher Getty Publications
Pages 292
Release 2005-10-01
Genre Art
ISBN 0892367857

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Today we associate the Renaissance with painting, sculpture, and architecture—the “major” arts. Yet contemporaries often held the “minor” arts—gem-studded goldwork, richly embellished armor, splendid tapestries and embroideries, music, and ephemeral multi-media spectacles—in much higher esteem. Isabella d’Este, Marchesa of Mantua, was typical of the Italian nobility: she bequeathed to her children precious stone vases mounted in gold, engraved gems, ivories, and antique bronzes and marbles; her favorite ladies-in-waiting, by contrast, received mere paintings. Renaissance patrons and observers extolled finely wrought luxury artifacts for their exquisite craftsmanship and the symbolic capital of their components; paintings and sculptures in modest materials, although discussed by some literati, were of lesser consequence. This book endeavors to return to the mainstream material long marginalized as a result of historical and ideological biases of the intervening centuries. The author analyzes how luxury arts went from being lofty markers of ascendancy and discernment in the Renaissance to being dismissed as “decorative” or “minor” arts—extravagant trinkets of the rich unworthy of the status of Art. Then, by re-examining the objects themselves and their uses in their day, she shows how sumptuous creations constructed the world and taste of Renaissance women and men.

Giovanna Silva. Syria, a Travel Guide to Disappearance

Giovanna Silva. Syria, a Travel Guide to Disappearance
Title Giovanna Silva. Syria, a Travel Guide to Disappearance PDF eBook
Author Noura Al-Sayeh
Publisher
Pages 238
Release 2016
Genre Art
ISBN 9788867492206

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A Historical and Topographical Guide to the Geography of Strabo

A Historical and Topographical Guide to the Geography of Strabo
Title A Historical and Topographical Guide to the Geography of Strabo PDF eBook
Author Duane W. Roller
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 1188
Release 2018-01-11
Genre History
ISBN 1316853152

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Strabo's Geography, completed in the early first century AD, is the primary source for the history of Greek geography. This Guide provides the first English analysis of and commentary on this long and difficult text, and serves as a companion to the author's The Geography of Strabo, the first English translation of the work in many years. It thoroughly analyzes each of the seventeen books and provides perhaps the most thorough bibliography as yet created for Strabo's work. Careful attention is paid to the historical and cultural data, the thousands of toponyms, and the many lost historical sources that are preserved only in the Geography. This volume guides readers through the challenges and complexities of the text, allowing an enhanced understanding of the numerous topics that Strabo covers, from the travels of Alexander and the history of the Mediterranean to science, religion, and cult.

Nightswimming. Discotheques from the 1960s to the Present

Nightswimming. Discotheques from the 1960s to the Present
Title Nightswimming. Discotheques from the 1960s to the Present PDF eBook
Author
Publisher
Pages 176
Release 2015
Genre
ISBN 9781907414497

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Historically the dance club is both an anthropological and architectural phenomenon. The cultural and economical evolution of society progressively transformed the idea of entertainment, and consequently the spaces in which it is formed and shaped. Today discotheques are hardly designed by architects, but rather temporary occupations of spaces which are dedicated to other functions. Through the photographs of Giovanna Silva, a selection of interviews and critical texts, Nightswimming explores this fascinating world from the 1960s until today.

Mr. Bawa I Presume

Mr. Bawa I Presume
Title Mr. Bawa I Presume PDF eBook
Author Chiara Carpenter
Publisher Hatje Cantz
Pages 160
Release 2020-06-08
Genre
ISBN 9783775747141

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Minimalistic eco-friendly houses, schools and hotels by Sri Lankan "tropical modernist" Geoffrey Bawa Sri Lankan architect Geoffrey Bawa (1919-2003) has long been one of Asian architecture's most celebrated figures. In Mr Bawa I Presume, photographer Giovanna Silva documents Bawa's private houses, schools and hotels.