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  • Poussin's Women

    Sex and Gender in the Artist's Works

    de Troy Thomas ...
    Series series Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700
    Poussin's Women: Sex and Gender in the Artist's Works examines the paintings and drawings of the well-known seventeenth-century French painter Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665) from a gender studies perspective, focusing on a critical analysis of his representations of women. The book's thematic chapters investigate Poussin's women in their roles as predators, as lustful or the objects of lust, as ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

  • Caravaggio and the Creation of Modernity

    de Troy Thomas ...
    Series Libro 2 - Renaissance Lives
    The great baroque artist Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio revolutionized painting by creating a new form of realistic art. His work depicted life directly, without sketches, resulting in a powerful psychological expression in his subjects. Caravaggio’s unconventional paintings have sparked debates among critics and viewers for centuries, while influencing subsequent artists like Velázquez and ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

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  • Dante Encyclopedia

    Edición de Richard Lansing ...
    Available for the first time in paperback, this essential resource presents a systematic introduction to Dante's life and works, his cultural context and intellectual legacy.The only such work available in English, this Encyclopedia:brings together contemporary theories on Dante, summarizing them in clear and vivid proseprovides in-depth discussions of the Divine Comedy, looki... ... Leer más

    $106.99 USD

  • The Study

    The Inner Life of Renaissance Libraries

    de Andrew Hui ...
    A uniquely personal account of the life and enduring legacy of the Renaissance libraryWith the advent of print in the fifteenth century, Europe’s cultural elite assembled personal libraries as refuges from persecutions and pandemics. Andrew Hui tells the remarkable story of the Renaissance studiolo—a “little studio”—and reveals how these spaces dedicated to self-cultivation became both a remedy ... Leer más

    $21.59 USD

  • The Ruins Lesson

    Meaning and Material in Western Culture

    de Susan Stewart ...
    How have ruins become so valued in Western culture and so central to our art and literature? Covering a vast chronological and geographical range, from ancient Egyptian inscriptions to twentieth-century memorials, Susan Stewart seeks to answer this question as she traces the appeal of ruins and ruins images, and the lessons that writers and artists have drawn from their haunting forms.Stewart ... Leer más

    $20.19 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Poetics of Ruins in Renaissance Literature

    de Andrew Hui ...
    Series series Verbal Arts: Studies in Poetics
    The Renaissance was the Ruin-naissance, the birth of the ruin as a distinct category of cultural discourse, one that inspired voluminous poetic production. For humanists, the ruin became the material sign that marked the rupture between themselves and classical antiquity. In the first full-length book to document this cultural phenomenon, Andrew Hui explains how the invention of the ruin propelled ... Leer más

    $30.99 USD

  • Studies In Iconology

    Humanistic Themes In The Art Of The Renaissance

    de Erwin Panofsky ...
    In Studies in Iconology, the themes and concepts of Renaissance art are analysed and related to both classical and medieval tendencies. ... Leer más

    $94.99 USD

  • The Troubadours

    de Linda M. Paterson ...
    Series Libro 12 - Medieval Lives
    Composing songs of love and war in medieval Western and Southern Europe, troubadours spanned the social spectrum from kings and nobles to penniless minstrels. This book tells the story of the lives and art of these remarkable poet-musicians, famed for their brilliant, innovative use of words and music, and the emotional power of their compositions. The troubadours’ songs explored new ideas of love ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Plague and Music in the Renaissance

    de Remi Chiu ...
    Plague, a devastating and recurring affliction throughout the Renaissance, had a major impact on European life. Not only was pestilence a biological problem, but it was also read as a symptom of spiritual degeneracy and it caused widespread social disorder. Assembling a picture of the complex and sometimes contradictory responses to plague from medical, spiritual and civic perspectives, this book ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

  • From Many Gods to One

    Divine Action in Renaissance Epic

    de Tobias Gregory ...
    Epic poets of the Renaissance looked to emulate the poems of Greco-Roman antiquity, but doing so presented a dilemma: what to do about the gods? Divine intervention plays a major part in the epics of Homer and Virgil—indeed, quarrels within the family of Olympian gods are essential to the narrative structure of those poems—yet poets of the Renaissance recognized that the cantankerous Olympians ... Leer más

    $22.39 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Medievalia et Humanistica, No. 35

    Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Culture

    Edición de Paul Maurice Clogan ...
    Series Libro 35 - Medievalia et Humanistica Series
    Since its founding in 1943, Medievalia et Humanistica has won worldwide recognition as the first scholarly publication in America to devote itself entirely to medieval and Renaissance studies. Since 1970, a new series, sponsored by the Modern Language Association of America and edited by an international board of distinguished scholars and critics, has published interdisciplinary articles. In ... Leer más

    $123.99 USD

  • Eroticism in Early Modern Music

    de Laurie Stras, Bonnie J. Blackburn ...
    Eroticism in Early Modern Music contributes to a small but significant literature on music, sexuality, and sex in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe. Its chapters have grown from a long dialogue between a group of scholars, who employ a variety of different approaches to the repertoire: musical and visual analysis; archival and cultural history; gender studies; philology; and performance. ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD