The Renaissance Restored

Author : Matthew Hayes
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 1606067222
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Renaissance Restored written by Matthew Hayes and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2021-07-27 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handsomely illustrated volume traces the intersections of art history and paintings restoration in nineteenth-century Europe. Repairing works of art and writing about them—the practices that became art conservation and art history—share a common ancestry. By the nineteenth century the two fields had become inseparably linked. While the art historical scholarship of this period has been widely studied, its restoration practices have received less scrutiny—until now. This book charts the intersections between art history and conservation in the treatment of Italian Renaissance paintings in nineteenth-century Europe. Initial chapters discuss the restoration of works by Giotto and Titian, framed by the contemporary scholarship of art historians such as Jacob Burckhardt, G. B. Cavalcaselle, and Joseph Crowe that was redefining the earlier age. Subsequent chapters recount how paintings conservation was integrated into museum settings. The narrative uses period texts, unpublished archival materials, and historical photographs in probing how paintings looked at a time when scholars were writing the foundational texts of art history, and how contemporary restorers were negotiating the appearances of these works. The book proposes a model for a new conservation history, object focused yet enriched by consideration of a wider cultural horizon.

Author : Gary M. Radke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Verrocchio's David Restored written by Gary M. Radke and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Clark
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0385528345
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dark Water written by Robert Clark and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2008-10-07 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Birthplace of Michelangelo and home to untold masterpieces, Florence is a city for art lovers. But on November 4, 1966, the rising waters of the Arno threatened to erase over seven centuries of history and human achievement. Now Robert Clark explores the Italian city’s greatest flood and its aftermath through the voices of its witnesses. Two American artists wade through the devastated beauty; a photographer stows away on an army helicopter to witness the tragedy first-hand; a British “mud angel” spends a month scraping mold from the world’s masterpieces; and, through it all, an author asks why art matters so very much to us, even in the face of overwhelming disaster.

Author : Marina Belozerskaya
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 0892367857
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Luxury Arts of the Renaissance written by Marina Belozerskaya and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2005-10-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today we associate the Renaissance with painting, sculpture, and architecture—the “major” arts. Yet contemporaries often held the “minor” arts—gem-studded goldwork, richly embellished armor, splendid tapestries and embroideries, music, and ephemeral multi-media spectacles—in much higher esteem. Isabella d’Este, Marchesa of Mantua, was typical of the Italian nobility: she bequeathed to her children precious stone vases mounted in gold, engraved gems, ivories, and antique bronzes and marbles; her favorite ladies-in-waiting, by contrast, received mere paintings. Renaissance patrons and observers extolled finely wrought luxury artifacts for their exquisite craftsmanship and the symbolic capital of their components; paintings and sculptures in modest materials, although discussed by some literati, were of lesser consequence. This book endeavors to return to the mainstream material long marginalized as a result of historical and ideological biases of the intervening centuries. The author analyzes how luxury arts went from being lofty markers of ascendancy and discernment in the Renaissance to being dismissed as “decorative” or “minor” arts—extravagant trinkets of the rich unworthy of the status of Art. Then, by re-examining the objects themselves and their uses in their day, she shows how sumptuous creations constructed the world and taste of Renaissance women and men.

Author : Alastair Muir
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hope Restored in Florence written by Alastair Muir and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is the opportunity of a lifetime, all she has ever dreamed of, the chance for Lucrezia Sims to study art restoration at the Palazzo Moretti in Florence, the cradle of the Renaissance. But even before she gets there, her life is devastated by the sudden separation of her parents. And once she arrives in Florence, she soon becomes the suspect in a violent crime, and betrayed by the one woman she had come to trust, whilst at the same time believing herself to be the victim of an odious assault. Her father, Jeffrey, who flies to be by her side, is himself soon a murder suspect as the full extent of the criminal network headed by Tommaso Rialo becomes shockingly clear.Jeffery must find a new sense of purpose as he works alongside ex-intelligence officer Marco di Luca, frustrated by a population in thrall to the criminal magnate and ignored by a police officer too scared or too corrupt to act against him. Together, they pull apart the threads of a sophisticated network of forgery and money laundering, risking their very lives to uncover the truth.Alongside this dark mystery, we are shown some of the lesser known beauties that Florence possesses, celebrating its women artists, those involved in the conservation and restoration of its many treasures and the Mannerist artists, who advanced art beyond the epoch of the High Renaissance.And we celebrate the life of Eleanora di Toledo, wife of Cosimo the First, Grand Duke of Tuscany. Their life long fidelity was unusual for their time, as was Eleanora's determination to emerge from the shadow of her husband and be recognised in her own right. Her story has echoes of that of Lucrezia, as past and present mirror each other.

Author : James H. Beck
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Italian Renaissance Painting written by James H. Beck and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1981 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This knowledgeable, useful and up-to-date survey of one of the greatest periods in Western painting, from Masaccio through Titian, covers some fifty artists and their work and includes nearly 400 illustrations integrated with the text. James Beck of Columbia University gives biographical information on each artist and discusses and analyzes his artistic style, achievement and most significant works." /

Author : Bosiljka Raditsa
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 0870999532
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Renaissance Europe written by Bosiljka Raditsa and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2000 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Works in the Museum's collection that embody the Renaissance interest in classical learning, fame, and beautiful objects are illustrated and discussed in this resource and will help educators introduce the richness and diversity of Renaissance art to their students. Primary source texts explore the great cities and powerful personalities of the age. By studying gesture and narrative, students can work as Renaissance artists did when they created paintings and drawings. Learning about perspective, students explore the era's interest in science and mathematics. Through projects based on poetic forms of the time, students write about their responses to art. The activities and lesson plans are designed for a variety of classroom needs and can be adapted to a specific curriculum as well as used for independent study. The resource also includes a bibliography and glossary.

Author : Marcia B. Hall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780521457330
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Color and Meaning written by Marcia B. Hall and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent restoration campaigns, particularly to the Sistine Chapel, have focused attention on the importance of colour in our experience of paintings, but until recently it has been neglected by art historians. The author believes that the work of art can only be fully appreciated when it is regarded as the product of both the artist's hand and mind. This study utilizes the traditional sources, such as contemporary theoretical writings and iconographical analysis, but in addition draws on the scientific findings of the conservation laboratories. This is a new body of data assembled in large part since World War II, which art historians are only beginning to exploit to fill out the history of technique. Rather than writing merely a history of technique, however, the author has integrated this material with traditional approaches to cultural history. She undertakes to examine twenty major paintings of the period from Giotto to Tintoretto to elucidate how colour and technique contribute to their meaning. She gives us then, the first modern consideration of Renaissance paintings both as physical objects and as monuments of cultural history.

Author : Leo Steinberg
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022622631X
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivion written by Leo Steinberg and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-12-10 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1983, Leo Steinberg's classic work has changed the viewing habits of a generation. After centuries of repression and censorship, the sexual component in thousands of revered icons of Christ is restored to visibility. Steinberg's evidence resides in the imagery of the overtly sexed Christ, in Infancy and again after death. Steinberg argues that the artists regarded the deliberate exposure of Christ's genitalia as an affirmation of kinship with the human condition. Christ's lifelong virginity, understood as potency under check, and the first offer of blood in the circumcision, both required acknowledgment of the genital organ. More than exercises in realism, these unabashed images underscore the crucial theological import of the Incarnation. This revised and greatly expanded edition not only adduces new visual evidence, but deepens the theological argument and engages the controversy aroused by the book's first publication.

Author : Waldemar Januszczak
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 9780201567502
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sayonara, Michelangelo written by Waldemar Januszczak and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 1991-10-15 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Januszczak (literary editor, art critic, and now arts editor for the Brit's Channel 4) has written his impressions of the restoration of Christianity's greatest masterpiece. Witty, deeply-informed, biased, and, at spots, murky with allusion, it is a lively and charming, if very personal, commentary. No bibliography. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR