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  • A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Sublime and Beautiful

    de Edmund Burke ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    Edited with an introduction and notes by James T. Boulton.'One of the greatest essays ever written on art.'– The GuardianEdmund Burke’s A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful is one of the most important works of aesthetics ever published. Whilst many writers have taken up their pen to write of "the beautiful", Burke’s subject here was the quality he ... Leer más

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  • The Gothic: 250 Years of Success. Your Guide to Gothic Literature and Culture

    de A J Blakemont ...
    “If you are looking for a clear and concise guide to all aspects of The Gothic, ranging from literature to architecture, history to visual arts, music to fashion, horror to fantasy, subculture to philosophy, and more besides, then this is for you.”John Nicholls, University of HullWhat is the Gothic? A genre, a style, a movement, a subculture? The Gothic is all of this, and so much more; it is one ... Leer más

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  • The Philosopher, the Priest, and the Painter

    A Portrait of Descartes

    de Steven Nadler ...
    How a famous painting opens a window into the life, times, and philosophy of René DescartesIn the Louvre museum hangs a portrait that is considered the iconic image of René Descartes, the great seventeenth-century French philosopher. And the painter of the work? The Dutch master Frans Hals—or so it was long believed, until the work was downgraded to a copy of an original. But where is the ... Leer más

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  • Art & Visual Culture 1600-1850: Academy to Avant-Garde

    Edición de Emma Barker ...
    An innovatory exploration of art and visual culture. Through carefully chosen themes and topics rather than through a general survey, the volumes approach the process of looking at works of art in terms of their audiences, functions and cross-cultural contexts. While focused on painting, sculpture and architecture, it also explores a wide range of visual culture in a variety of media and methods. ... Leer más

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  • Francisco De Goya

    de Sandra Forty ...
    Series series TAJ Mini Books
    The greatest artist of the 18th century, Francisco de Goya began his career as an apprentice to a local artist where one of his jobs was adding draperies and modesty items to nude figures in religious paintings; for this he was titled “Reviser of Indecent Paintings.” But by the age of 40, Goya had established himself as a leading Spanish artist. Goya simultaneously pursued a number of disparate ... Leer más

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  • Portraiture and British Gothic Fiction

    The Rise of Picture Identification, 1764–1835

    Examples from British writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries show how portraits became a new mode of identity for the middle class.Traditionally, kings and rulers were featured on stamps and money, the titled and affluent commissioned busts and portraits, and criminals and missing persons appeared on wanted posters. British writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, however, ... Leer más

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  • Pets and their Couples

    Chardin, Charrière, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, and Marivaux

    Series Libro 15 - Natur, Wissenschaft und die Kuenste / Nature, Science and the Arts / Nature, Science et les Arts
    Baroque novels focus on the psychology of love, while love in the context of nature is the subject of the pastoral genre. Introducing animals to such texts proves unexpectedly challenging. The inclusion of pets in the artistic representation involves a reversal of scale and various modes of comedy, including socio-political satire. At a time when some writers fantasize that children can be born of ... Leer más

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  • Fleshing out surfaces

    Skin in French art and medicine, 1650–1850

    Series series Rethinking Art's Histories
    Fleshing out surfaces is the first English-language book on skin and flesh tones in art. It considers flesh and skin in art theory, image making and medical discourse in seventeenth to nineteenth-century France. Describing a gradual shift between the early modern and the modern period, it argues that what artists made when imitating human nakedness was not always the same. Initially understood in ... Leer más

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  • Baroque Seville

    Sacred Art in a Century of Crisis

    de Amanda Wunder ...
    Baroque art flourished in seventeenth-century Seville during a tumultuous period of economic decline, social conflict, and natural disasters. This volume explores the patronage that fueled this frenzy of religious artistic and architectural activity and the lasting effects it had on the city and its citizens.Amanda Wunder investigates the great public projects of sacred artwork that were ... Leer más

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  • Baroque Visual Rhetoric

    Series series Toronto Italian Studies
    Intricate, expressive, given to grandeur and even excess, Baroque art as a style is inseparable from the meanings it seeks to convey. Vernon Hyde Minor’s Baroque Visual Rhetoric probes this combination of style and message and – equally importantly – the methodological basis on which the critical art historian comes to establish that meaning.Drawing on a breathtaking range of critical literature, ... Leer más

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  • Federico Barocci

    Inspiration and Innovation in Early Modern Italy

    Edición de Judith W. Mann ...
    Series series Visual Culture in Early Modernity
    Reviewers of a recent exhibition termed Federico Barocci (ca. 1533–1612), 'the greatest artist you’ve never heard of'. One of the first original iconographers of the Counter Reformation, Barocci was a remarkably inventive religious painter and draftsman, and the first Italian artist to incorporate extensive color into his drawings. The purpose of this volume is to offer new insights into Barocci’s ... Leer más

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  • British Romanticism and the Reception of Italian Old Master Art, 1793-1840

    de Maureen McCue ...
    Series series Studies in Art Historiography
    As a result of Napoleon’s campaigns in Italy, Old Master art flooded into Britain and its acquisition became an index of national prestige. Maureen McCue argues that their responses to these works informed the writing of Romantic period authors, enabling them to forge often surprising connections between Italian art, the imagination and the period’s political, social and commercial realities. Dr ... Leer más

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