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Reframing Seventeenth-Century Bolognese Art

Archival Discoveries

Edited by Babette Bohn ...

Series series Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700
These ground-breaking essays, all based on original archival research, consider the evolving interest in Bolognese art in seventeenth-century Italy, particularly focusing on the period after the death of Guido Reni in 1642. Edited by Bolognese specialists Raffaella Morselli and Babette Bohn, the studies collected here focus on the taste for Bolognese art within Bologna itself and in other parts of ... Read more

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These ground-breaking essays, all based on original archival research, consider the evolving interest in Bolognese art in seventeenth-century Italy, particularly focusing on the period after the death of Guido Reni in 1642. Edited by Bolognese specialists Raffaella Morselli and Babette Bohn, the studies collected here focus on the taste for Bolognese art within Bologna itself and in other parts of
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A Companion to Renaissance and Baroque Art

Edited by Babette Bohn, James M. Saslow ...

Series Book 29 - Blackwell Companions to Art History
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.Presents a collection of original, in-depth essays from art experts that address various aspects of European visual arts produced from circa 1300 to ... Read more

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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.Presents a collection of original, in-depth essays from art experts that address various aspects of European visual arts produced from circa 1300 to
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Mona Lisa

The People and the Painting

by Martin Kemp, Giuseppe Pallanti ...

Read this book and the world's most famous image will never look the same again. For the world's greatest cultural icon still has secrets to reveal - not the silly secrets that the 'Leonardo loonies' continue to advance, but previously unknown facts about the lives of Leonardo, his father, Lisa Gherardini, the subject of the portrait, and her husband Francesco del Giocondo. From this factual ... Read more

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Read this book and the world's most famous image will never look the same again. For the world's greatest cultural icon still has secrets to reveal - not the silly secrets that the 'Leonardo loonies' continue to advance, but previously unknown facts about the lives of Leonardo, his father, Lisa Gherardini, the subject of the portrait, and her husband Francesco del Giocondo. From this factual
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The Honest Courtesan

Veronica Franco, Citizen and Writer in Sixteenth-Century Venice

by Margaret F. Rosenthal ...

The Venetian courtesan has long captured the imagination as a female symbol of sexual license, elegance, beauty, and unruliness. What then to make of the cortigiana onesta—the honest courtesan who recast virtue as intellectual integrity and offered wit and refinement in return for patronage and a place in public life? Veronica Franco (1546-1591) was such a woman, a writer and citizen of Venice, ... Read more

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The Venetian courtesan has long captured the imagination as a female symbol of sexual license, elegance, beauty, and unruliness. What then to make of the cortigiana onesta—the honest courtesan who recast virtue as intellectual integrity and offered wit and refinement in return for patronage and a place in public life? Veronica Franco (1546-1591) was such a woman, a writer and citizen of Venice,
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Renaissance Art

The rebirth of beauty, science, and humanism

by Victoria Charles ...

The Renaissance began at the end of the 14th century in Italy and had extended across the whole of Europe by the second half of the 16th century. The rediscovery of the splendour of ancient Greece and Rome marked the beginning of the rebirth of the arts following the break-down of the dogmatic certitude of the Middle Ages. A number of artists began to innovate in the domains of painting, sculpture ... Read more

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The Renaissance began at the end of the 14th century in Italy and had extended across the whole of Europe by the second half of the 16th century. The rediscovery of the splendour of ancient Greece and Rome marked the beginning of the rebirth of the arts following the break-down of the dogmatic certitude of the Middle Ages. A number of artists began to innovate in the domains of painting, sculpture
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Breve storia di Palermo

by Giuseppe Quatriglio ...

Series Book 11 - Tascabili Flaccovio
Tracciare la storia di Palermo significa intraprendere un viaggio nel tempo che, attraverso i millenni, permette di ricostruire le vicende di una città che, pur tra alterne fortune, ha sempre mantenuto il suo ruolo di “capitale”. Una “capitale” ora politica, ora economica, ora culturale, ora tutte queste cose messe insieme, ma comunque sempre ben salda e fiera della sua privilegiata posizione di ... Read more

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Tracciare la storia di Palermo significa intraprendere un viaggio nel tempo che, attraverso i millenni, permette di ricostruire le vicende di una città che, pur tra alterne fortune, ha sempre mantenuto il suo ruolo di “capitale”. Una “capitale” ora politica, ora economica, ora culturale, ora tutte queste cose messe insieme, ma comunque sempre ben salda e fiera della sua privilegiata posizione di
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Matera from the Sassi to the new city

by Enzo Montemurro ...

Guide - Matera from the Sassi to the new cityThere have been many guides and illustrated books about the Sassi of Matera. Some are estimable products of studies and researches that describe the birth and the evolution of the unique hamlet that the Sassi of Matera represent. This handbook, on the other hand, is not so ambitious as the others, and does not offer unpublished assertions on the origins ... Read more

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Guide - Matera from the Sassi to the new cityThere have been many guides and illustrated books about the Sassi of Matera. Some are estimable products of studies and researches that describe the birth and the evolution of the unique hamlet that the Sassi of Matera represent. This handbook, on the other hand, is not so ambitious as the others, and does not offer unpublished assertions on the origins
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Francesca Caccini at the Medici Court

Music and the Circulation of Power

by Suzanne G. Cusick ...

A "priceless" study of the life and career of the Renaissance-era Italian who was the first woman to have composed an opera ( Gender & History)."Extraordinary in its breadth, its detail, its insight, and its worth to all participants in early music…. Its contribution is not limited to the musical world, however, as Cusick's remarkable command and analysis of her material…has immense value for ... Read more

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A "priceless" study of the life and career of the Renaissance-era Italian who was the first woman to have composed an opera ( Gender & History)."Extraordinary in its breadth, its detail, its insight, and its worth to all participants in early music…. Its contribution is not limited to the musical world, however, as Cusick's remarkable command and analysis of her material…has immense value for
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The Merchant of Prato's Wife

Margherita Datini and Her World, 1360-1423

by Ann Morton Crabb ...

Although the fourteenth-century Italian merchant Francesco Datini has received attention from business historians, there has previously been no full study of his wife, Margherita Datini. Drawing on a sizable trove of Margherita’s correspondence held in the Archivio di Stato di Prato, including hundreds of letters she exchanged with Francesco, Ann Crabb investigates the social and economic ... Read more

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Although the fourteenth-century Italian merchant Francesco Datini has received attention from business historians, there has previously been no full study of his wife, Margherita Datini. Drawing on a sizable trove of Margherita’s correspondence held in the Archivio di Stato di Prato, including hundreds of letters she exchanged with Francesco, Ann Crabb investigates the social and economic
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Il confine orientale

by Giorgio Federico Siboni ...

Series Book 3 - passato prossimo
Il confine orientale può essere considerato come uno spazio in cui per secoli si sono intrecciate e sovrapposte molteplici frontiere, di natura politica, culturale, religiosa e infine nazionale. Un luogo non solo fisico, in quanto parte dell’Adriatico e in sostanza limine fra la penisola italiana e quella balcanica, ma anche cesura tra l’Europa occidentale e quella orientale in senso generico. ... Read more

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Il confine orientale può essere considerato come uno spazio in cui per secoli si sono intrecciate e sovrapposte molteplici frontiere, di natura politica, culturale, religiosa e infine nazionale. Un luogo non solo fisico, in quanto parte dell’Adriatico e in sostanza limine fra la penisola italiana e quella balcanica, ma anche cesura tra l’Europa occidentale e quella orientale in senso generico.
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Street art in Rome: the murals

by Stefano Benedetti ...

Series Book 4 - Photography and society
Rome is an open-air museum. In this book we are collected the 260 most beautiful and meaningful murals. The book is divided in neighborhoods where there are a significant number of works plus a miscellaneous section that collects isolated works. For each district is provided a map accompanied by directions to the area by public transport. The book is written in three languages: English, Italian ... Read more

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Rome is an open-air museum. In this book we are collected the 260 most beautiful and meaningful murals. The book is divided in neighborhoods where there are a significant number of works plus a miscellaneous section that collects isolated works. For each district is provided a map accompanied by directions to the area by public transport. The book is written in three languages: English, Italian
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Inventing the Opera House

Theater Architecture in Renaissance and Baroque Italy

by Eugene J. Johnson ...

In this book, Eugene J. Johnson traces the invention of the opera house, a building type of world wide importance. Italy laid the foundation theater buildings in the West, in architectural spaces invented for the commedia dell'arte in the sixteenth century, and theaters built to present the new art form of opera in the seventeenth. Rulers lavished enormous funds on these structures. Often they ... Read more

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In this book, Eugene J. Johnson traces the invention of the opera house, a building type of world wide importance. Italy laid the foundation theater buildings in the West, in architectural spaces invented for the commedia dell'arte in the sixteenth century, and theaters built to present the new art form of opera in the seventeenth. Rulers lavished enormous funds on these structures. Often they
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