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Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > 1400 to 1600
Most modern historians perpetuate the myth that Giuliano de' Medici
(1479-1516), son of Lorenzo the Magnificent, was nothing more than
an inconsequential, womanizing hedonist with little inclination or
ability for politics. In the first sustained biography of this
misrepresented figure, Josephine Jungic re-evaluates Giuliano's
life and shows that his infamous reputation was exaggerated by
Medici partisans who feared his popularity and respect for
republican self-rule. Rejecting the autocratic rule imposed by his
nephew, Lorenzo (Duke of Urbino), and brother, Giovanni (Pope Leo
X), Giuliano advocated restraint and retention of republican
traditions, believing his family should be "first among equals" and
not more. As a result, the family and those closest to them wrote
him out of the political scene, and historians - relying too
heavily upon the accounts of supporters of Cardinal Giovanni and
the Medici regime - followed suit. Interpreting works of art,
books, and letters as testimony, Jungic constructs a new narrative
to demonstrate that Giuliano was loved and admired by some of the
most talented and famous men of his day, including Cesare Borgia,
Michelangelo Buonarroti, Niccolo Machiavelli, Leonardo da Vinci,
and Raphael. More than a political biography, this volume offers a
refreshing look at a man who was a significant patron and ally of
intellectuals, artists, and religious reformers, revealing Giuliano
to be at the heart of the period's most significant cultural
accomplishments.
Since the time of Aristotle, the making of knowledge and the making
of objects have generally been considered separate enterprises. Yet
during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, the two
became linked through a "new" philosophy known as science. In "The
Body of the Artisan," Pamela H. Smith demonstrates how much early
modern science owed to an unlikely source-artists and artisans.
From goldsmiths to locksmiths and from carpenters to painters,
artists and artisans were much sought after by the new scientists
for their intimate, hands-on knowledge of natural materials and the
ability to manipulate them. Drawing on a fascinating array of new
evidence from northern Europe including artisans' objects and their
writings, Smith shows how artisans saw all knowledge as rooted in
matter and nature. With nearly two hundred images, "The Body of the
Artisan" provides astonishingly vivid examples of this Renaissance
synergy among art, craft, and science, and recovers a forgotten
episode of the Scientific Revolution-an episode that forever
altered the way we see the natural world.
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Memling
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W H J Weale, J C Weale
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Herbert E. A. Furst
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'art comes to you professing frankly to give nothing but the
highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those
moments' sake' In Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1873),
a diffident Oxford don produced an audacious and incalculably
influential defence of aestheticism. Through his highly
idiosyncratic readings of some of the finest paintings, sculptures,
and poems of the French and Italian Renaissance, Pater redefined
the practice of criticism as an impressionistic, almost erotic
exploration of the critic's aesthetic responses. At the same time,
reclaiming the Hellenism that he saw as the most characteristic
aspect of the Renaissance, he implicitly celebrated homoerotic
friendship. Pater's infamous 'Conclusion', which forever linked him
with the decadent movement, scandalized many with its insistence on
making pleasure the sole motive of life, even as it charmed fellow
aesthetes such as Oscar Wilde. This edition of Studies reproduces
the text of the first edition, recapturing its initial impact, and
the Introduction celebrates its doomed attempt to stand out against
the processes of industrialization. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100
years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range
of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume
reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most
accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including
expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to
clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and
much more.
Difference exists; otherness is constructed. This book asks how
important Western artists, from Giotto to Titian and Caravaggio,
and from Bosch to D rer and Rembrandt, shaped the imaging of
non-Western individuals in early modern art. Victor I. Stoichita's
nuanced and detailed study examines images of racial otherness
during a time of new encounters of the West with different cultures
and peoples, such as those with dark skins: Muslims and Jews.
Featuring a host of informative illustrations and crossing the
disciplines of art history, anthropology, and postcolonial studies,
Darker Shades also reconsiders the Western canon's most essential
facets: perspective, pictorial narrative, composition, bodily
proportion, beauty, color, harmony, and lighting. What room was
there for the "Other," Stoichita would have us ask, in such a
crystalline, unchanging paradigm?
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