The Art History And Architecture Of Florentine Churches

Author : Susan Bracken
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443857637
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art, History and Architecture of Florentine Churches written by Susan Bracken and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2016-12-14 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Churches and palaces in Florence have been the subject matter of book-length, often multi-volume studies over the centuries. This book is a compendium of the main churches in Florence and has been written with two distinct audiences in mind: English-speaking students of Renaissance art, architecture, literature and history and the well-read traveller to Florence who wishes to place the works of art and architecture into the wider context of Italian culture. The choice of churches discussed here was influenced by the author’s experience as teacher for several university programmes on site in Florence. The buildings described and analysed are those which students will most likely encounter in the course of their study-abroad stay in Florence, whether they wish to specialise in art, architecture or the history of the Florentine Renaissance. This book represents a textbook that offers concise information on the history, art, and architecture of 25 of the main Florentine churches, provides plans and photos of the façades, and introduces the student to some of the most important vocabulary and the main textual sources of the thirteenth to the seventeenth centuries.

Author : James Wood Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dominican Church of Santa Maria Novella at Florence written by James Wood Brown and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Monica Bietti
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780760782903
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sacred Florence written by Monica Bietti and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271048147
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Changing Patrons: Social Identity and the Visual Arts in Renaissance Florence written by and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To whom should we ascribe the great flowering of the arts in Renaissance Italy? Artists like Botticelli and Michelangelo? Or wealthy, discerning patrons like Cosimo de' Medici? In recent years, scholars have attributed great importance to the role played by patrons, arguing that some should even be regarded as artists in their own right. This approach receives sharp challenge in Jill Burke's Changing Patrons, a book that draws heavily upon the author's discoveries in Florentine archives, tracing the many profound transformations in patrons' relations to the visual world of fifteenth-century Florence. Looking closely at two of the city's upwardly mobile families, Burke demonstrates that they approached the visual arts from within a grid of social, political, and religious concerns. Art for them often served as a mediator of social difference and a potent means of signifying status and identity. Changing Patrons combines visual analysis with history and anthropology to propose new interpretations of the art created by, among others, Botticelli, Filippino Lippi, and Raphael. Genuinely interdisciplinary, the book also casts light on broad issues of identity, power relations, and the visual arts in Florence, the cradle of the Renaissance.

Author : J. Wood Brown
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780282438463
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dominican Church of Santa Maria Novella at Florence written by J. Wood Brown and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-07-19 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Dominican Church of Santa Maria Novella at Florence: A Historical, Architectural, and Artistic Study Thus then, Part I. Will be found devoted entirely to the earliest history of Santa Maria Novella. The subject here is one which has hardly been touched by any previous writer, and its details seemed remarkable enough to warrant the care and space which have been devoted to the compilation of a kind of Chronicle of the Church from its first establishment to the coming of the Friars. With the year 1221, however, began the history which, under many a vicissitude, has continued down to our own day. Here, of course, selection and compression became necessary; for much was already matter Of common knowledge, and more was tedious and insignificant. In Part II., therefore, I have restricted myself almost entirely to what seemed most noteworthy - the great building period of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries - and within these limits have given my chief attention to the bearing of certain little-known facts upon matters of general interest to all students of Florentine Art. In Part III. The original plan is resumed in a separate and detailed study of the Spanish Chapel. AS one of the Convent buildings it finds its own place and receives passing notice in Part II., but here in the final division of my work, I have felt the more free on this account to write both at large and in detail of that pictorial decoration which has drawn so many students hither, and made this place one of the chief shrines Of Tuscan Art. To furnish a coherent interpretation of these frescoes, as a whole, with reference to the leading ideas which inspire them such has been the final, as indeed it was the original, purpose of my studies. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Prof. Antonio Paolucci
Publisher : H F Ullmann
ISBN 13 : 9783833145858
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Florence (Lct) written by Prof. Antonio Paolucci and published by H F Ullmann. This book was released on 2007-05-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There can be no doubt about it: this is a magnificent achievement. The illustrated volume Florence: Art and Architecture combines interesting and easily understood texts with an abundance of opulent colour illustrations into a first class cultural experience. Prominent Florentine scholars and museum directors accompany the reader on a journey to the unique artistic treasures of this city on the Arno. The experts introduce superb historical buildings and sculptures in their historical contexts, and as 'insiders' lead you through world famous painting galleries such as the Accademia and the Palazzo Pitti. Over 500 high quality illustrations, often over more than one page, as well as thematic essays on book illumination, the art of the goldsmith and the treasures of the Medicis. Whether as an especially beautiful gift or to grace your own bookshelves, this exceptional book is a bibliophile's jewel, and at the same time an enthralling art guide through one of the most gorgeous cities in the world.

Author : Niall Atkinson
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271077832
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Noisy Renaissance written by Niall Atkinson and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the strictly regimented church bells to the freewheeling chatter of civic life, Renaissance Florence was a city built not just of stone but of sound as well. An evocative alternative to the dominant visual understanding of urban spaces, The Noisy Renaissance examines the premodern city as an acoustic phenomenon in which citizens used sound to navigate space and society. Analyzing a range of documentary and literary evidence, art and architectural historian Niall Atkinson creates an “acoustic topography” of Florence. The dissemination of official messages, the rhythm of prayer, and the murmur of rumor and gossip combined to form a soundscape that became a foundation in the creation and maintenance of the urban community just as much as the city’s physical buildings. Sound in this space triggered a wide variety of social behaviors and spatial relations: hierarchical, personal, communal, political, domestic, sexual, spiritual, and religious. By exploring these rarely studied soundscapes, Atkinson shows Florence to be both an exceptional and an exemplary case study of urban conditions in the early modern period.

Author : Rolf C. Wirtz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780760722336
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Art & Architecture, Florence written by Rolf C. Wirtz and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Anna Maria Busse Berger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316298299
Total Pages : 1058 pages
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Download or read book The Cambridge History of Fifteenth-Century Music written by Anna Maria Busse Berger and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 1058 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through forty-five creative and concise essays by an international team of authors, this Cambridge History brings the fifteenth century to life for both specialists and general readers. Combining the best qualities of survey texts and scholarly literature, the book offers authoritative overviews of central composers, genres, and musical institutions as well as new and provocative reassessments of the work concept, the boundaries between improvisation and composition, the practice of listening, humanism, musical borrowing, and other topics. Multidisciplinary studies of music and architecture, feasting, poetry, politics, liturgy, and religious devotion rub shoulders with studies of compositional techniques, musical notation, music manuscripts, and reception history. Generously illustrated with figures and examples, this volume paints a vibrant picture of musical life in a period characterized by extraordinary innovation and artistic achievement.

Author : Bonechi (Firm)
Publisher : Casa Editrice Bonechi
ISBN 13 : 9788847609662
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Art and History of Florence written by Bonechi (Firm) and published by Casa Editrice Bonechi. This book was released on 2001 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the rich history and culture of some of the world¿s most influential historical places with these highly illustrated books, packed with informative and enlightening descriptions and information