This book establishes the cultural background to the productions of Miltons Comus that were staged in the 1740s by Baptist Noel, 4th Earl of Gainsborough, at Exton Hall, his country seat in the East Midlands of England....Lasīt vairāk
This is an analysis of the diverse facets of Alexander the Greats image from the Renaissance era through the Baroque into the nineteenth century....Lasīt vairāk
Through a thematic overview of court culture that connects the cultural with the political, confessional, spatial, material and performative, this volume introduces the dynamics of power and culture in the early modern European court....Lasīt vairāk
This book introduces a new perspective on Claudio Monteverdis Orfeo (1607), a work widely regarded as the first great opera, by exploring the influence of the Mantuan Accademia deglia Invaghiti, the group which hosted the operas performance, and...Lasīt vairāk
Focusing on the fate and meaning of the two altarpiece paintings commissioned by the Oratorians from Peter Paul Rubens, this study offers the first comparative study of Jesuit and Oratorian images of their respective would-be saints, and the controv...Lasīt vairāk
The dominance of economic repertories of value is a relatively new phenomenon, and one which directly correlates to the steady advent of capitalism in early modern Europe. This volume brings together scholars with expertise in a variety of related f...Lasīt vairāk
McCue illuminates the important role these artworks played in shaping the themes that are central to our understanding of Romanticism. She argues that they informed the writing of Romantic period authors, enabling them to forge connections between I...Lasīt vairāk
This book focuses on key monuments of the Baroque style, which varies in different European contexts. It is intended to affirm the existence of individual genius, identifiable styles of art, and historical periods that produced them....Lasīt vairāk
Federico Barocci (ca. 1533-1612), has been termed the greatest artist youve never heard of. The central purpose of this volume is to accord this artist, the dates of whose career fall between the Renaissance and Baroque periods, the critical atten...Lasīt vairāk
This book demonstrates the roles that Senecan eclecticism and a classicizing approach to emulation played in Rubenss joining of form to matter in his formative drawings practice, and arguably in his early ambitions to strengthen art for a new and tr...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 19-Dec-2013, Izdevniecība: Walter de Gruyter & Co, ISBN-13: 9783110298826)
Museum science, museum analysis, museum history, and museum theory - all this expanding terminology underscores the growing scholarly interest in museums. This volume focuses on the museum as a product of transnational processes of exchange....Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 22-Feb-2013, Izdevniecība: Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd), ISBN-13: 9781118391488)
A Companion to Renaissance and Baroque Art provides a diverse, fresh collection of accessible, comprehensive essays addressing key issues for European art produced between 1300 and 1700, a period that might be termed the beginning of modern history....Lasīt vairāk
Understanding Art is a two-volume, fully illustrated work that strives to explain and discuss four important periods in the history of western art--the Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, and Baroque....Lasīt vairāk
This is a nonchronological introduction to Baroque, one of the great periods of European art. John Martins descriptions of the essential characteristics of the Baroque help one to gain an understanding of the style....Lasīt vairāk
