Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino, Illustrating the Arms, Arts, and Literature of Italy, from 1440 to 1630
Title | Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino, Illustrating the Arms, Arts, and Literature of Italy, from 1440 to 1630 PDF eBook |
Author | James Dennistoun |
Publisher | |
Pages | 520 |
Release | 1851 |
Genre | Art, Renaissance |
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A Catalogue of the Subscription Library at Kingston-upon-Hull; containing the works admitted since the publication of the Supplement to Mr. Clarke's Catalogue, in 1836. [Compiled by J. M. Stark.]
Title | A Catalogue of the Subscription Library at Kingston-upon-Hull; containing the works admitted since the publication of the Supplement to Mr. Clarke's Catalogue, in 1836. [Compiled by J. M. Stark.] PDF eBook |
Author | John Mozley STARK |
Publisher | |
Pages | 602 |
Release | 1855 |
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Catalogue of the Library Collected by the Late Professor Amos Dean of Albany, N.Y.
Title | Catalogue of the Library Collected by the Late Professor Amos Dean of Albany, N.Y. PDF eBook |
Author | Amos Dean |
Publisher | |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 1868 |
Genre | Civilization |
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Catalogue of the Library collected by the late Professor Amos Dean ... Now offered for sale ... by Joseph Sabin, etc
Title | Catalogue of the Library collected by the late Professor Amos Dean ... Now offered for sale ... by Joseph Sabin, etc PDF eBook |
Author | Amos DEAN |
Publisher | |
Pages | 200 |
Release | 1868 |
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Titian's Portraits through Aretino's Lens
Title | Titian's Portraits through Aretino's Lens PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Penn State Press |
Pages | 240 |
Release | |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780271044255 |
After classical antiquity, the Italian Renaissance raised the portrait, whether literary or pictorial, to the status of an important art form. Among sixteenth-century Renaissance painters, Titian made his reputation, and much of his living, by portraiture. Titian's portraits were promoted by his friend, Pietro Aretino, an eminent poet and critic, who addressed his letters and sonnets to the same personages whom Titian portrayed. In many of these letters (which often included sonnets), Aretino described both an individual patron and Titian's portrait of that patron, thus stimulating the reciprocal relation between a verbal and pictorial portrait. By investigating this unprecedented historical phenomenon, Luba Freedman elucidates the meaning conveyed by the portrait as an artistic form in Renaissance Italy. Fusing iconographical analysis of the most famous Titian portraits with rhetorical analysis of Aretino's literary legacy as compared to contemporary reactions, Freedman demonstrates that it is due to Titian's many portraits and to Aretino's repeated simultaneous writings about them that the portrait ceased being primarily a social-historical document, preserving the sitter's likeness for posterity. It gradually became, as it is today, a work of art, the artist's invention, which gives its viewer an aesthetic pleasure.
Dictionary of Artists' Models
Title | Dictionary of Artists' Models PDF eBook |
Author | Jill Berk Jiminez |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 625 |
Release | 2013-10-15 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1135959145 |
The first reference work devoted to their lives and roles, this book provides information on some 200 artists' models from the Renaissance to the present day. Most entries are illustrated and consist of a brief biography, selected works in which the model appears (with location), a list of further reading. This will prove an invaluable reference work for art historians, librarians, museum and gallery curators, as well as students and researchers.
A Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Bristol Library Society
Title | A Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Bristol Library Society PDF eBook |
Author | City of Bristol Museum and Art Gallery |
Publisher | |
Pages | 316 |
Release | 1856 |
Genre | Library catalogs |
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