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Inventing the Renaissance Putto
Author | : Charles Dempsey |
Publsiher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0807826162 |
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The figure of the putto (often portrayed as a mischievous baby) made frequent appearances in the art and literature of Renaissance Italy. Commonly called spiritelli, or sprites, putti embodied a minor species of demon, in their nature neither good
Renaissance Theories of Vision
Author | : Dr Charles H Carman,Professor John Shannon Hendrix |
Publsiher | : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2012-10-01 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781409486510 |
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How are processes of vision, perception, and sensation conceived in the Renaissance? How are those conceptions made manifest in the arts? The essays in this volume address these and similar questions to establish important theoretical and philosophical bases for artistic production in the Renaissance and beyond. The essays also attend to the views of historically significant writers from the ancient classical period to the eighteenth century, including Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, St Augustine, Ibn Sina (Avicenna), Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen), Ibn Sahl, Marsilio Ficino, Nicholas of Cusa, Leon Battista Alberti, Gian Paolo Lomazzo, Gregorio Comanini, John Davies, Rene Descartes, Samuel van Hoogstraten, and George Berkeley. Contributors carefully scrutinize and illustrate the effect of changing and evolving ideas of intellectual and physical vision on artistic practice in Florence, Rome, Venice, England, Austria, and the Netherlands. The artists whose work and practices are discussed include Fra Angelico, Donatello, Leonardo da Vinci, Filippino Lippi, Giovanni Bellini, Raphael, Parmigianino, Titian, Bronzino, Johannes Gumpp and Rembrandt van Rijn. Taken together, the essays provide the reader with a fresh perspective on the intellectual confluence between art, science, philosophy, and literature across Renaissance Europe.
Experiments with Body Agent Architecture
Author | : Alessandro Ayuso |
Publsiher | : UCL Press |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2022-03-31 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9781800081703 |
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Experiments with Body Agent Architecture puts forward the notion of body agents: non-ideal, animate and highly specific figures integrated with design to enact particular notions of embodied subjectivity in architecture. Body agents present opportunities for architects to increase imaginative and empathic qualities in their designs, particularly amidst a posthuman condition. Beginning with narrative writing from the viewpoint of a body agent, an estranged ‘quattrocento spiritello’ who finds himself uncomfortably inhabiting a digital milieu (or, as the spiritello calls it, ‘Il Regno Digitale’), the book combines speculative historical fiction and original design experiments. It focuses on the process of creating the multi-media design experiments, moving from the design of the body itself as an original prosthetic to architectural proposals emanating from the body. A fragmented history of the figure in architecture is charted and woven into the designs, with chapters examining Michelangelo’s enigmatic figures in his drawings for the New Sacristy in the early sixteenth century, Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s physically ephemeral ‘putti’ adorning chapels and churches in the seventeenth century, and Austrian artist-architect Walter Pichler’s personal and prescient figures of the twentieth century.
Donatello and the Dawn of Renaissance Art
Author | : A. Victor Coonin |
Publsiher | : Reaktion Books |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2019-11-15 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781789141672 |
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The Italian sculptor known as Donatello helped to forge a new kind of art—one that came to define the Renaissance. His work was progressive, challenging, and even controversial. Using a variety of novel sculptural techniques and innovative interpretations, Donatello uniquely depicted themes involving human sexuality, violence, spirituality, and beauty. But to really understand Donatello, one needs to understand his changing world, marked by the transition from Medieval to Renaissance style and to an art that was more personal and representative of the modern self. Donatello was not just a man of his times, he helped shape the spirit of the times he lived in and profoundly influenced those that came after. In this beautifully illustrated book—the first thorough biography of Donatello in twenty-five years—A. Victor Coonin describes the full extent of Donatello’s revolutionary contributions, revealing how his work heralded the emergence of modern art.
Practice and Theory in the Italian Renaissance Workshop
Author | : Christina Neilson |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 367 |
Release | : 2019-07-18 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781107172852 |
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Verrocchio worked in an extraordinarily wide array of media and used unusual practices of making to express ideas.
Imago Exegetica
Author | : Walter Melion,James Clifton,Michel Weemans |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 1088 |
Release | : 2014-03-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789004262010 |
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Exegesis, as theologians and historians of art, religion, and literature, have come increasingly to acknowledge, has traditionally utilized visual devices of all kinds. This volume examines the many ways in which images functioned as instruments of scriptural hermeneutics in early modern Europe.
Ficino and Fantasy
Author | : Marieke J.E. van den Doel |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 2021-12-13 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9789004459687 |
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Did the Florentine philosopher Marsilio Ficino (1433-99) influence the art of his time? This book starts with an exploration of Ficino’s views on the imagination and discusses whether, how and why these ideas may have been received in Italian Renaissance works of art.
The Art of Dreams
Author | : Barbara Hahn,Meike Werner |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2016-08-22 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9783110433852 |
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We all dream; we all share these strange experiences that infuse our nights. But we only know of those nightly adventures when we decide to represent them. In the long history of coming to terms with dreams there seem to be two different ways of delineating our forays into the world of the unconscious: One is the attempt of interpreting, of unveiling the hidden meaning of dreams. The other one is not so much concerned with the relation of dream and meaning, of dream and reality, it rather concentrates on trying to find means of representation for this extremely productive force that determines our sleep. The essays collected in this book explore both attempts. They follow debates in philosophy and psychoanalysis and they study literature, theatre, dance, film, and photography.