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Petrarch and sixteenth-century italian portraiture
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ISBN: 9789463727242 9463727248 9789048552917 Year: 2024 Publisher: Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press

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The volume presents a wide-ranging investigation of the ways in which Petrarch’s legacy informed the relationship between visual and literary portraits in sixteenth-century Italy. Petrarch’s vast literary production influenced the intellectual framework in which new models of representation and self-representation developed during the Renaissance. His two sonnets on Laura’s portrait by Simone Martini and his ambivalent fascination with the illusionary power of portraiture in his Latin texts — such as the Secretum, the Familiares and De remediis utriusque fortune — constituted the theoretical reference for artists and writers alike. In a century dominated by the rhetorical comparison between art and literature (ut pictura poësis) and by the paragone debate, the interplay between Petrarch’s oeuvre, Petrarchism and portraiture shaped the discourse on the relationship between the sitters’ physical image and their inner life. The volume brings together diverse interdisciplinary contributions that explore the subject through a rich body of literary and visual sources.--site éditeur


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The living icon in Byzantium and Italy : the vita image, eleventh to thirteenth centuries
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ISBN: 9781107034969 9781139542401 9781107784482 1107784484 1139542400 1107034965 1139894587 1107779553 1107778778 1107784948 1107780047 1107781280 Year: 2014 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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This is the first book to explore the emergence and function of a novel pictorial format in the Middle Ages, the vita icon, which displayed the magnified portrait of a saint framed by scenes from his or her life. The vita icon was used for depicting the most popular figures in the Orthodox calendar and, in the Latin West, was deployed most vigorously in the service of Francis of Assisi. This book offers a compelling account of how this type of image embodied and challenged the prevailing structures of vision, representation and sanctity in Byzantium and among the Franciscans in Italy between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries. Paroma Chatterjee uncovers the complexities of the philosophical and theological issues that had long engaged both the medieval East and West, such as the fraught relations between words and images, relics and icons, a representation and its subject, and the very nature of holy presence.


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Netherlandish and Italian female portraiture in the fifteenth century : gender, identity, and the tradition of power
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ISBN: 9789463728614 9463728619 9048544890 9789048544899 Year: 2022 Publisher: Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press

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This book investigates the aesthetic and conceptual characteristics of fifteenth-century female portraiture on panel. Portraits of women increased substantially during this century. They formed part of a material and a visual culture borne out of the rapid rise of an oligarchy from entrepreneurial activities that was especially advanced in the urbanised territories of Italy and Flanders. For this reason, the portraits in this book are by Netherlandish and Italian painters. They are simultaneously illustrative of the emancipation of the genre from its medieval idiom, and of the responses to the matrix of patriarchy, under which society was organised.

Patriarchy is an androcentric structure that places women in a paradoxical situation of legal and social disenfranchisement on the account of purported psychophysical inadequacy, whilst making them the catalysts, through arranged marriages, for the success of the spheres of power, which are controlled by men. Thus, these portraits are also a window into women's lives in this structure. This book is the first systematic study of their sign-system and of the feminine experience of seeing and being seen, at the intersection of disciplines that include art history, anthropology, legal history, philosophy. The surprising results suggest new interpretations of form and function in female portraiture, women's active role in the imaging process and the early instances of a pro-women ideology.


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Leon Battista Alberti : On painting : a new translation and critical edition
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ISBN: 9781107000629 9780511782190 9781107694934 1107694930 9781139042611 1139042610 0511782195 1107000629 9781139045254 1139036386 1107219914 1280886692 1139041843 9786613728005 1139045253 1139038702 113904107X 9781139036382 9781107219915 9781280886690 9781139041843 6613728004 9781139038706 Year: 2011 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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Leon Battista Alberti was one of the most important humanist scholars of the Italian Renaissance. Active in mid-fifteenth-century Florence, he was an architect, theorist, and author of texts on perspective and painting. Leon Battista Alberti: On Painting is a cardinal work that revolutionized Western art. In this volume Rocco Sinisgalli presents a new English translation and critical examination of Alberti's seminal text. Dr Sinisgalli reverses the received understanding of the relationship between the Italian and Latin versions of Alberti's treatise by demonstrating that Alberti wrote it first in Italian and then translated it into a polished Latin over the course of several decades. This volume is richly illustrated to help demonstrate how Alberti understood optics and art.


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Devotional portraiture and spiritual experience in early Netherlandish painting
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ISBN: 9789004369757 9789004397606 9789004409729 9789004409736 9789004409743 9004409742 9004409726 9004369759 Year: 2019 Publisher: Leiden: Brill,


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Votive panels and popular piety in early modern Italy
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ISBN: 9781107023048 9781139149440 9781107420434 1107420431 9781107416543 110741654X 113914944X 1306071941 9781306071949 9781107419193 1107419190 1107023041 1107424119 1139890999 1107421888 1107417872 Year: 2013 Publisher: New York, N.Y. Cambridge University Press

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In the late fifteenth century, votive panel paintings, or tavolette votive, began to accumulate around reliquary shrines and miracle-working images throughout Italy. Although often dismissed as popular art of little aesthetic consequence, more than 1,500 panels from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries are extant, a testimony to their ubiquity and importance in religious practice. Humble in both their materiality and style, they represent donors in prayer and supplicants petitioning a saint at a dramatic moment of crisis. In this book, Fredrika H. Jacobs traces the origins and development of the use of votive panels in this period. She examines the form, context and functional value of votive panels, and considers how they created meaning for the person who dedicated them as well as how they accrued meaning in relationship to other images and objects within a sacred space activated by practices of cultic culture.


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Hugo van der Goes and the procedures of art and salvation
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ISBN: 9781905375158 1905375158 Year: 2008 Volume: 49 Publisher: Turnhout London Turnhout Brepols Harvey Miller


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La collection La Caze : chefs-d'oeuvre des peintures des XVIIIe siècles du musée du Louvre
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ISBN: 9782754101783 9782350311203 2754101780 Year: 2007 Publisher: Paris Musée du Louvre éditions

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Sense knowledge and the challenge of Italian Renaissance art : El Greco, Velázquez, Rembrandt
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ISBN: 9789463725712 9789048544585 9463725717 9048544580 Year: 2019 Publisher: Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press

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Giles Knox examines how El Greco, Velaìzquez, and Rembrandt, though a disparate group of artists, were connected by a new self-consciousness with respect to artistic tradition. In particular, Knox considers the relationship of these artists to the art of Renaissance Italy, and sets aside nationalist art histories in order to see the period as one of fruitful exchange. Across Europe during the seventeenth century, artists read Italian-inspired writings on art and these texts informed how they contemplated their practice. Knox demonstrates how these three artists engaged dynamically with these writings, incorporating or rejecting the theoretical premises to which they were exposed. Additionally, this study significantly expands our understanding of how paintings can activate the sense of touch. Knox discusses how Velaìzquez and Rembrandt, though in quite different ways, sought to conjure for viewers thoughts about touching that resonated directly with the subject matter they depicted.

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Aesthetics of art --- Painting --- painting [image-making] --- Velázquez, da Silva y, Diego --- Greco, el --- Rembrandt --- Italy --- Toucher --- Touch --- Sens et sensations --- Senses and sensation in art. --- Peinture --- Dans l'art. --- In art. --- Influence. --- Greco, Le --- Greco, --- Velázquez, Diego --- Velázquez, Diego, --- Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, --- Thèmes, motifs. --- Themes, motives. --- Painting, Renaissance --- Italian influences. --- Rāmbirānt, --- Rembrandt Garmens van Reĭn, --- Rembrandt van Rijn --- Rembrandt van Reĭn, --- Lun-po-lang, --- Rembrandt, --- Van Rijn, Rembrandt Harmenszoon, --- Rijn, Rembrandt Harmenszoon van, --- Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, --- Reimbrandt, --- Rembrandt van Rijn, --- רמברנדט --- רמברנדט הרמנסזון ואן־ריין, --- رامبرانت --- Theotocopuli, Dominico, --- Theotokopoulos, Domenikos, --- Theocopuli, Domenico, --- Theotocopuli, Domenico, --- Zeotokopoulos, Doménikos, --- Theotocópuli, Domingo, --- Theotocópoulos, Doménicos, --- Theoscopoli, Domenico, --- Greco, Domenico, --- Griego, --- El Greco, --- Greco, Dominico, --- Ο Γκρεκο, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- El Greco, Velázquez, Rembrandt. --- Theotocopuli, Dominico --- Theotokopoulos, Domenikos --- Theocopuli, Domenico --- Theotocopuli, Domenico --- Zeotokopoulos, Doméniko, --- Theotocópuli, Domingo --- Theotocópoulos, Doménicos --- Theoscopoli, Domenico --- Greco, Domenico --- Griego --- El Greco --- Greco, Dominico --- Ο Γκρεκο --- Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn --- Rembrandt Garmens van Reĭn --- Rembrandt van Reĭ --- Lun-po-lan --- Van Rijn, Rembrandt Harmenszoon --- Rijn, Rembrandt Harmenszoon van --- Rembrandt Harmensz van Rin, --- Reimbrand --- invloed van Italiaanse school

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