The Renaissance in Italy and Spain

The Renaissance in Italy and Spain
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Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Total Pages : 174
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ISBN-10 : 9780870994326
ISBN-13 : 0870994328
Rating : 4/5 (26 Downloads)

Synopsis The Renaissance in Italy and Spain by : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

"This volume presents a full range of artistic endeavor from the first awakenings of the Renaissance spirit in the works of Berlinghiero, Giotto, and Pisano, to the climactic creations of Raphael, Michelangelo, Leonardo, Titian, and Veronese- the masters of the High Renaissance. The artists of Italy and Spain worked in every medium, all of which are represented in this volume: paintings, drawings, and prints; sculpture in stone, wood, and terra-cotta; glass, metal, and porcelain; furniture and musical instrument; costumes and armor."--Page 2 of cover.

Art and Anatomy in Renaissance Italy

Art and Anatomy in Renaissance Italy
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Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Total Pages : 52
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ISBN-10 : 9781588394569
ISBN-13 : 1588394565
Rating : 4/5 (69 Downloads)

Synopsis Art and Anatomy in Renaissance Italy by : Domenico Laurenza

Known as the "century of anatomy," the 16th century in Italy saw an explosion of studies and treatises on the discipline. Medical science advanced at an unprecedented rate, and physicians published on anatomy as never before. Simultaneously, many of the period's most prominent artists--including Leonardo and Michelangelo in Florence, Raphael in Rome, and Rubens working in Italy--turned to the study of anatomy to inform their own drawings and sculptures, some by working directly with anatomists and helping to illustrate their discoveries. The result was a rich corpus of art objects detailing the workings of the human body with an accuracy never before attained. "Art and Anatomy in Renaissance Italy "examines this crossroads between art and science, showing how the attempt to depict bone structure, musculature, and our inner workings--both in drawings and in three dimensions--constituted an important step forward in how the body was represented in art. While already remarkable at the time of their original publication, the anatomical drawings by 16th-century masters have even foreshadowed developments in anatomic studies in modern times.

Spain in Italy

Spain in Italy
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 621
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ISBN-10 : 9789004154292
ISBN-13 : 9004154299
Rating : 4/5 (92 Downloads)

Synopsis Spain in Italy by : Thomas James Dandelet

This volume integrates the theme of Spain in Italy into a broad synthesis of late Renaissance and early modern Italy by restoring the contingency of events, local and imperial decision-making, and the distinct voices of individual Spaniards and Italians.

The High Renaissance and Mannerism

The High Renaissance and Mannerism
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Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Total Pages : 287
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ISBN-10 : 0500201625
ISBN-13 : 9780500201626
Rating : 4/5 (25 Downloads)

Synopsis The High Renaissance and Mannerism by : Linda Murray

After the death of Raphael in 1520, the next generation in Italy was to see the rise of the complex and refined sensibility summed up in the term "Mannerism." In this uniquely comprehensive guide to sixteenth-century Renaissance art, Linda Murray examines the manifold achievements of Italian artists and identifies the individual forms taken by artists in Northern Europe and in Spain, including Durer, Bruegel and El Greco.

Art in Renaissance Italy, 1350-1500

Art in Renaissance Italy, 1350-1500
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 356
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ISBN-10 : 019284279X
ISBN-13 : 9780192842794
Rating : 4/5 (9X Downloads)

Synopsis Art in Renaissance Italy, 1350-1500 by : Evelyn S. Welch

"Focuses primarliy on the social and historical context in which art was made and used"--Bibliographic essay (p. 326).

The Renaissance of Empire in Early Modern Europe

The Renaissance of Empire in Early Modern Europe
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 317
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ISBN-10 : 9780521769938
ISBN-13 : 0521769930
Rating : 4/5 (38 Downloads)

Synopsis The Renaissance of Empire in Early Modern Europe by : Thomas James Dandelet

Examines the intellectual and artistic foundations of the Imperial Renaissance in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Italy and traces its political realization in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe.

Printing and Reading Italian Latin Humanism in Renaissance Europe (ca. 1470-ca. 1540)

Printing and Reading Italian Latin Humanism in Renaissance Europe (ca. 1470-ca. 1540)
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Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages : 230
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ISBN-10 : 9781443861052
ISBN-13 : 1443861057
Rating : 4/5 (52 Downloads)

Synopsis Printing and Reading Italian Latin Humanism in Renaissance Europe (ca. 1470-ca. 1540) by : Alejandro Coroleu

With the advent of the printing press throughout Europe in the last quarter of the fifteenth century, the key Latin texts of Italian humanism began to be published outside Italy, most of them by a small group of printers who, in most cases, worked in close collaboration with lecturers and teachers. This study provides the first comprehensive account of the dissemination of this important literary corpus in Spain, France, the Low Countries and the German-speaking world between ca. 1470 and ca. 1540. By combining an examination of book production and consumption with attention to the educational system of Renaissance Europe, this book highlights both the historical significance of the Latin literature of Italian humanism within the school and university curriculum of the time, and the impact of such a body of texts on the rising national literary traditions, in Latin and in the vernacular, of the period. Printing and Reading Italian Latin Humanism in Renaissance Europe will appeal to scholars of classical and Renaissance literature, and to anyone interested in intellectual history and in the history of education in the Renaissance. It will be of particular interest to scholars in Hispanic studies.

A Renaissance of Conflicts

A Renaissance of Conflicts
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Publisher : Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies
Total Pages : 458
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ISBN-10 : 0772720223
ISBN-13 : 9780772720221
Rating : 4/5 (23 Downloads)

Synopsis A Renaissance of Conflicts by : Victoria University (Toronto, Ont.). Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies

The essays in this collection explore conflict and continuity across the spectrum of political, legal, and spiritual traditions from late medieval Umbria and Tuscany to sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Venice, Rome, and Castile. They point to a shared tradition of dispute and resolution in both ecclesiastical/spiritual and state/secular matters, whether of private conscience or public policy. Continuity of ideals, problems, and modes of resolution suggest that breaks in legal, political, or religious ideals and behavior were not as frequent or sharp as historians have argued. These continuities emerge from common methodological approaches grounded in close, careful reading of key texts and their polyvalent terms. Whether those were the terms of civil or canon law, spirituality, or astrology, each author has had to grapple with multiple possibilities, contexts, customs, and practices that reveal the shifts and continuities in their possible meanings. -- Amazon.com.

A Jewish Renaissance in Fifteenth-Century Spain

A Jewish Renaissance in Fifteenth-Century Spain
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 293
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ISBN-10 : 9781400832583
ISBN-13 : 1400832586
Rating : 4/5 (83 Downloads)

Synopsis A Jewish Renaissance in Fifteenth-Century Spain by : Mark D. Meyerson

This book significantly revises the conventional view that the Jewish experience in medieval Spain--over the century before the expulsion of 1492--was one of despair, persecution, and decline. Focusing on the town of Morvedre in the kingdom of Valencia, Mark Meyerson shows how and why Morvedre's Jewish community revived and flourished in the wake of the horrible violence of 1391. Drawing on a wide array of archival documentation, including Spanish Inquisition records, he argues that Morvedre saw a Jewish "renaissance." Meyerson shows how the favorable policies of kings and of town government yielded the Jewish community's demographic expansion and prosperity. Of crucial importance were new measures that ceased the oppressive taxation of the Jews and minimized their role as moneylenders. The results included a reversal of the credit relationship between Jews and Christians, a marked amelioration of Christian attitudes toward Jews, and greater economic diversification on the part of Jews. Representing a major contribution to debates over the Inquisition's origins and the expulsion of the Jews, the book also offers the first extended analysis of Jewish-converso relations at the local level, showing that Morvedre's Jews expressed their piety by assisting Valencia's conversos. Comparing Valencia with other regions of Spain and with the city-states of Renaissance Italy, it makes clear why this kingdom and the town of Morvedre were so ripe for a Jewish revival in the fifteenth century.

The Renaissance in Europe

The Renaissance in Europe
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Publisher : Laurence King Publishing
Total Pages : 388
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ISBN-10 : 1856693740
ISBN-13 : 9781856693745
Rating : 4/5 (40 Downloads)

Synopsis The Renaissance in Europe by : Margaret L. King

"The Renaissance is usually portrayed as a period dominated by the extraordinary achievements of great men: rulers, philosophers, poets, painters, architects and scientists. Leading scholar Margaret King recasts the Renaissance as a more complex cultural movement rooted in a unique urban society that was itself the product of many factors and interactions: commerce, papal and imperial ambitions, artistic patronage, scientific discovery, aristocratic and popular violence, legal precedents, peasant migrations, famine, plague, invasion and other social factors. Together with literary and artistic achievements, therefore, today's Renaissance history includes the study of power, wealth, gender, class, honour, shame, ritual and other categories of historical investigation opened up in recent years. Tracing the diffusion of the Renaissance from Italy to the rest of Europe, Professor King marries the best work of the last generation of scholars with the findings of the most recent research, including her own. Ultimately, she points to the multiple ways in which this seminal epoch influenced the later development of Western culture and society."--Jacket.