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Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > 1400 to 1600 > Renaissance art
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Memling
(Paperback)
W H J Weale, J C Weale
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R379
Discovery Miles 3 790
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This book includes a rich and fascinating consideration of the
golden age of French printmaking. Once considered the golden age of
French printmaking, Louis XIV's reign saw Paris become a powerhouse
of print production. During this time, the king aimed to make fine
and decorative arts into signs of French taste and skill and, by
extension, into markers of his imperialist glory. Prints were ideal
for achieving these goals; reproducible and transportable, they
fueled the sophisticated propaganda machine circulating images of
Louis as both a man of war and a man of culture. This richly
illustrated catalogue features more than one hundred prints from
the Getty Research Institute and the Bibliotheque nationale de
France in Paris, whose print collection Louis XIV established in
1667. An esteemed international group of contributors investigates
the ways that cultural policies affected printmaking; explains what
constitutes a print; describes how one became a printmaker; studies
how prints were collected; and considers their reception in the
ensuing centuries.A Kingdom of Images is published to coincide with
an exhibition on view at the Getty Research Institute from June 18
through September 6, 2015, and at the Bibliotheque nationale de
France in Paris from November 2, 2015, through January 31, 2016.
An acclaimed historian of Europe explores one of the world’s most
iconic buildings and the monarch who created it Few buildings have
played so central a role in Spain’s history as the
monastery-palace of San Lorenzo del Escorial. Colossal in size and
imposing—even forbidding—in appearance, the Escorial has
invited and defied description for four centuries. Part palace,
part monastery, part mausoleum, it has also served as a shrine, a
school, a repository for thousands of relics, and one of the
greatest libraries of its time. Constructed over the course
of more than twenty years, the Escorial challenged and provoked,
becoming for some a symbol of superstition and oppression, for
others a “wonder of the world.” Now a World Heritage Site, it
is visited by thousands of travelers every year. In this intriguing
study, Henry Kamen looks at the circumstances that brought the
young Philip II to commission construction of the Escorial in 1563.
He explores Philip’s motivation, the influence of his travels,
the meaning of the design, and its place in Spanish culture. It
represents a highly engaging narrative of the high point of Spanish
imperial dominance, in which contemporary preoccupations with art,
religion, and power are analyzed in the context of this remarkable
building.
Leonardo da Vinci, A Memory of His ChildhoodSigmund Freud Leonardo
da Vinci and A Memory of His Childhood (German: Eine
Kindheitserinnerung des Leonardo da Vinci) is a 1910 essay by
Sigmund Freud about Leonardo da Vinci. It consists of a
psychoanalytic study of Leonardo's life based on his paintings.In
the Codex Atlanticus Leonardo recounts being attacked as an infant
in his crib by a bird. Freud cites the passage as:"It seems that it
had been destined before that I should occupy myself so thoroughly
with the vulture, for it comes to my mind as a very early memory,
when I was still in the cradle, a vulture came down to me, he
opened my mouth with his tail and struck me a few times with his
tail against my
The Italian Renaissance is one of the most important eras in
Western art. Painters including Masaccio, Botticelli, Michelangelo,
and Titian brought about a fundamental renewal that influenced all
of Europe. More than 50 of the most important artists up to 1600
are presented in this book with more than 270 color illustrations.
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Durer
(Paperback)
Herbert E. A. Furst
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R366
Discovery Miles 3 660
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This volume tells the singular story of an uncanny object at the
cusp of art and science: a 450-year-old automaton known as “the
monk.” The walking, gesticulating figure of a friar, in the
collection of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of
American History, is among the earliest extant ancestors of the
self-propelled robot. According to lore from the court of Philip II
of Spain, the monk represents a portrait of Diego de Alcalá, a
humble Franciscan lay brother whose holy corpse was said to be
agent to the miraculous cure of Spain’s crown prince as he lay
dying in 1562. In tracking the origins of the monk and its legend,
the authors visited archives, libraries, and museums across the
United States and Europe, probing the paradox of a mechanical
object performing an apparently spiritual act. They identified
seven kindred automata from the same period, which, they argue,
form a paradigmatic class of walking “prime movers,”
unprecedented in their combination of visual and functional
realism. While most of the literature on automata focuses on the
Enlightenment, this enthralling narrative journeys back to the late
Renaissance, when clockwork machinery was entirely new, foretelling
the evolution of artificial life to come.
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