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Drawing inspiration from Robert Greene's deathbed attack on Shakespeare as 'an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers,' 'The Bodger' (Elizabethan variant of 'botcher,' 'mender,' 'patcher') argues that Shakespeare's dramas are compositions of 'shreds and patches' pieced together by a mind of extraordinary synthetic acuity. Such patches include passages of dialogue that, as described in the sixteenth-century, 'lead objects before our eyes' by means of ekphrasis. The book offers substantial art-historical research into the only visual artist named by Shakespeare, Giulio Romano - who performs an important role in 'The Winter's Tale' as the alleged sculptor of a statue of the dead Queen. Giulio, heir to Raphael's workshop, is known primarily as a painter and architect. This research reveals he was also a designer of sculpture. Applying historical and theoretical materials to close readings of several plays, the focus is on the most critical issues of 'The Winter's Tale' - King Leontes' sudden fit of jealousy; Shakespeare's introduction of a surrogate playwright in the personification of Time, who refashions the play from tragedy to comedy, assisted by a behind-the-scenes female ghost writer; and the Queen's statue amazingly 'coming to life' through an interactive declaration of faith.

ART / History / Renaissance. --- Shakespeare, William, --- Criticism and interpretation.

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"Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574) was a man of many talents--a sculptor, painter, architect, writer, and scholar--but he is best known for Lives of the Artists, the classic account that singlehandedly invented the genre of artistic biography and established the canon of Italian Renaissance art. Before Vasari's extraordinary book, art was considered a technical skill rather than an intellectual pursuit, and artists were mere decorators and craftsmen. It was through Vasari's visionary writings that artists like Raphael, Leonardo, and Michelangelo came to be regarded as great masters of life as well as art, their creative genius celebrated as a divine gift. Their enduring reputations testify to Vasari's profound yet unspoken influence on western culture. An advisor to kings and pontiffs--and a confidant to Titian, Donatello, and more--Vasari enjoyed an exhilarating career amid the thrilling culture of Renaissance Italy"--Inside dust jacket.

Artists --- Biographers --- Renaissance --- Vasari, Giorgio, --- Vazari, Dzhordzho, --- Vasari, Georges, --- Вазари, Джорджо, --- ART / History / Renaissance. --- Artists. --- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Artists, Architects, Photographers. --- Biographers. --- Renaissance. --- Italy. --- Authors --- Vasari, Giorgio --- ヴァザリ, ジョルジョ

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"Publication accompanies the opening of the exhibition on the art of the Museo dell'Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence, at the Museum of Biblical Art in New York, in February 2015. It is a ground-breaking examination of the art and decoration of Sta. Maria del Fiore in Florence, better known to international visitors as the Duomo, much of which has not been seen in the USA before. With four essays by leading scholars plus a catalogue of 23 works, it features masterpieces that had a profound and lasting influence on the art of the Florentine (and wider Italian) Renaissance, and serves as a major new survey of early Renaissance art. Featured works by Donatello include Lo Zuccone (which the artist considered to be one of his best works), The Evangelist John carved for the facade of the cathedral between 1408 and 1413 and an inspiration for Michelangelo's Moses, and the highly dramatic Sacrifice of Isaac.The main colour plates of the artworks have been shot by leading art photographer Antonio Quattrone. "-- "With fresh insights and superb new photography, Sculpture in the Age of Donatello offers a close look at the genesis of the early Renaissance in Florence. Focusing on a group of works made in the first half of the fifteenth century for Florence Cathedral (the Duomo), this volume highlights the ingenuity and spirit of competition that drove this multi-faceted project. Sculpture gave expression to new humanist ideas, and Donatello, one of the most influential and versatile sculptors of the Renaissance, was a main innovator. This close-up look places Donatello's major early works alongside those of his contemporaries-- masters such as Lorenzo Ghiberti, Nanni di Banco, and Luca della Robbia. Four essays by outstanding scholars interpret the sculptures in a variety of contexts"--

Sculpture, Renaissance --- Sculpture, Italian --- ART / History / Renaissance. --- ART / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General. --- ARCHITECTURE / History / Renaissance. --- ART / Subjects & Themes / Religious. --- Donatello, --- Friends and associates --- Santa Maria del Fiore (Cathedral : Florence, Italy) --- Sculptors --- Exhibitions --- Exhibitions. --- Ghiberti, Lorenzo,

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"A synthesis of the early Renaissance, considering Florentine and Netherlandish art as a single phenomenon resulting from a shared Christian culture"--

Early Renaissance --- Northern Renaissance --- Christian religion --- religious symbolism --- Art --- Eyck, van, Jan --- Donatello --- Sluter, Claus --- Masaccio --- Eyck, van, Hubert --- anno 1400-1499 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Florence --- Flanders --- Art, Italian --- Art, Flemish --- Christian art and symbolism --- ART / History / Renaissance. --- Art, Flemish. --- Art, Italian. --- Renaissance. --- 1400 - 1600 --- Europe --- Italy

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At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.Renaissance Futurities considers the intersections between artistic rebirth, the new science, and European imperialism in the global early modern world. Charlene Villaseñor Black and Mari-Tere Álvarez take as inspiration the work of Renaissance genius Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), prolific artist and inventor, and other polymaths such as philosopher Giulio "Delminio" Camillo (1480-1544), physician and naturalist Francisco Hernández de Toledo (1514-1587), and writer Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616). This concern with futurity is inspired by the Renaissance itself, a period defined by visions of the future, as well as by recent theorizing of temporality in Renaissance and Queer Studies. This transdisciplinary volume is at the cutting edge of the humanities, medical humanities, scientific discovery, and avant-garde artistic expression.

Art and science --- Forecasting. --- Science and art --- Science --- ART / History / Renaissance. --- artist. --- artistic rebirth. --- avant garde artistic expression. --- delminio. --- european imperialism. --- francisco hernandez de toledo. --- futurity. --- giulio camillo. --- global early modern world. --- humanities. --- intersections. --- inventor. --- leonardo da vinci. --- medical humanities. --- miguel de cervantes. --- naturalist. --- new science. --- philosopher. --- physician. --- polymaths. --- queer studies. --- renaissance. --- scientific discovery.