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Author : Joost vander Auwera
Release : 2007
Genre : Art
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Book Synopsis Rubens by : Joost vander Auwera
Download or read book Rubens written by Joost vander Auwera. This book was released on 2007. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past four years the Royal Fine Arts Museums of Belgium have undertaken a huge research
Author : Anne T. Woollett
Release : 2021-11-02
Genre : Art
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Book Synopsis Rubens by : Anne T. Woollett
Download or read book Rubens written by Anne T. Woollett. This book was released on 2021-11-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first study devoted to classical art’s vital creative impact on the work of the Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens. For the great Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640), the classical past afforded lifelong creative stimulus and the camaraderie of humanist friends. A formidable scholar, Rubens ingeniously transmitted the physical ideals of ancient sculptors, visualized the spectacle of imperial occasions, rendered the intricacies of mythological tales, and delineated the character of gods and heroes in his drawings, paintings, and designs for tapestries. His passion for antiquity profoundly informed every aspect of his art and life. Including 170 color illustrations, this volume addresses the creative impact of Rubens’s remarkable knowledge of the art and literature of antiquity through the consideration of key themes. The book’s lively interpretive essays explore the formal and thematic relationships between ancient sources and Baroque expressions: the significance of neo-Stoic philosophy, the compositional and iconographic inspiration provided by exquisite carved gems, Rubens’s study of Roman marble sculpture, and his inventive translation of ancient sources into new subjects made vivid by his dynamic painting style. This volume is published to accompany an exhibition on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Villa from November 10, 2021, to January 24, 2022.
Author : Claire Farago
Release : 2017-07-05
Genre : Art
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Book Synopsis Re-Reading Leonardo by : Claire Farago
Download or read book Re-Reading Leonardo written by Claire Farago. This book was released on 2017-07-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For nearly three centuries Leonardo da Vinci's work was known primarily through the abridged version of his Treatise on Painting, first published in Paris in 1651 and soon translated into all the major European languages. Here for the first time is a study that examines the historical reception of this vastly influential text. This collection charts the varied interpretations of Leonardo's ideas in French, Italian, Spanish, English, German, Dutch, Flemish, Greek, and Polish speaking environments where the Trattato was an important resource for the academic instruction of artists, one of the key sources drawn upon by art theorists, and widely read by a diverse network of artists, architects, biographers, natural philosophers, translators, astronomers, publishers, engineers, theologians, aristocrats, lawyers, politicians, entrepreneurs, and collectors. The cross-cultural approach employed here demonstrates that Leonardo's Treatise on Painting is an ideal case study through which to chart the institutionalization of art in Europe and beyond for 400 years. The volume includes original essays by scholars studying a wide variety of national and institutional settings. The coherence of the volume is established by the shared subject matter and interpretative aim: to understand how Leonardo's ideas were used. With its focus on the active reception of an important text overlooked in studies of the artist's solitary genius, the collection takes Leonardo studies to a new level of historical inquiry. Leonardo da Vinci's most significant contribution to Western art was his interpretation of painting as a science grounded in geometry and direct observation of nature. One of the most important questions to emerge from this study is, what enabled the same text to produce so many different styles of painting?
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Release : 1993
Genre : Humanities
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Author : Eric Flint
Release : 2006-12-26
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis Grantville Gazette III by : Eric Flint
Download or read book Grantville Gazette III written by Eric Flint. This book was released on 2006-12-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A third volume in the series of anthologies based on the saga that began in "1632" describes life for the inhabitants of Grantville, an American town from West Virginia that finds itself hurtled back in time and into the middle of the Thirty Years War.
