The Birth Of Western Painting Routledge Revivals

Author : Robert Byron
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136752471
Total Pages : 380 pages
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Download or read book The Birth of Western Painting (Routledge Revivals) written by Robert Byron and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-17 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1930, this book deals with Byzantine art, not as an isolated province, but as one intimately connected with the subsequent history of European painting. After a summary of the whole question in its relation to modern art, the second chapter opens with a novel analysis of the iconoclast controversy, and shows how it was only by this movement that Hellenistic naturalism was finally vanquished and the seed of interpretational art planted in Europe in its stead. The third chapter reveals how this seed was nourished by the Constantinopolitan Renascence, and how that event, combined with the increasing humanisation of religious emotion, culminated, not only in Duccio and Giotto, but in the equally important work of their contemporaries at Mistra and Mount Athos. A detailed account of these works is given and in the last part of the book, the mystery of El Greco is finally resolved. The book is based, not only on extensive research but on personal observation of nearly all the works mentioned, in Constantinople, Greece, Crete, Italy, and Spain. It is an important and exciting addition to the history of European Art and establishes, scientifically, theories which only existed in conjecture before its publication. The book includes 94 black and white plates.

Author : Robert Byron
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136752404
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Birth of Western Painting (Routledge Revivals) written by Robert Byron and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-17 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1930, this book deals with Byzantine art, not as an isolated province, but as one intimately connected with the subsequent history of European painting. After a summary of the whole question in its relation to modern art, the second chapter opens with a novel analysis of the iconoclast controversy, and shows how it was only by this movement that Hellenistic naturalism was finally vanquished and the seed of interpretational art planted in Europe in its stead. The third chapter reveals how this seed was nourished by the Constantinopolitan Renascence, and how that event, combined with the increasing humanisation of religious emotion, culminated, not only in Duccio and Giotto, but in the equally important work of their contemporaries at Mistra and Mount Athos. A detailed account of these works is given and in the last part of the book, the mystery of El Greco is finally resolved. The book is based, not only on extensive research but on personal observation of nearly all the works mentioned, in Constantinople, Greece, Crete, Italy, and Spain. It is an important and exciting addition to the history of European Art and establishes, scientifically, theories which only existed in conjecture before its publication. The book includes 94 black and white plates.

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Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Birth of Western Painting written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Byron
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ISBN 13 : 9780415809184
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book The Birth of Western Painting written by Robert Byron and published by . This book was released on 2012-11-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1930, this book deals with Byzantine art, not as an isolated province, but as one intimately connected with the subsequent history of European painting. It is an important and exciting addition to the history of European Art and establishes, scientifically, theories which only existed in conjecture before its publication.

Author : Michael Phillipson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351983466
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Routledge Revivals: Painting, Language and Modernity (1985) written by Michael Phillipson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-11-10 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1985, this book draws together the author’s artistic with analytical practices which had been developed over many years of sociological enquiry. It interprets a ‘work of art’ as a site on which a viewer or critic is invited to share in questioning celebration of the painting itself. The author reassesses modern painting’s relation to its own origins and to tradition in light of the emergence of ‘postmodern’ practice — exploring its engagement of fundamental questions about language and being. Also assessed is the relevance of the metaphors of writings and Reading to an understanding of painting and viewing practices — looking at painters’ writings as well as phenomenological and post-structuralist writers.

Author : Cordula Grewe
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351555227
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Painting the Sacred in the Age of Romanticism written by Cordula Grewe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a century of Rationalist scepticism and political upheaval, the nineteenth century awakened to a fierce battle between the forces of secularization and the crusaders of a Christian revival. From this battlefield arose an art movement that would become the torchbearer of a new religious art: Nazarenism. From its inception in the Lukasbund of 1809, this art was controversial. It nonetheless succeeded in becoming a lingua franca in religious circles throughout Europe, America, and the world at large. This is the first major study of the evolution, structure, and conceptual complexity of this archetypically nineteenth-century language of belief. The Nazarene quest for a modern religious idiom evolved around a return to pre-modern forms of biblical exegesis and the adaptation of traditional systems of iconography. Reflecting the era's historicist sensibility as much as the general revival of orthodoxy in the various Christian denominations, the Nazarenes responded with great acumen to pressing contemporary concerns. Consequently, the artists did not simply revive Christian iconography, but rather reconceptualized what it could do and say. This creativity and flexibility enabled them to intervene forcefully in key debates of post-revolutionary European society: the function of eroticism in a Christian life, the role of women and the social question, devotional practice and the nature of the Church, childhood education and bible study, and the burning issue of anti-Judaism and modern anti-Semitism. What makes Nazarene art essentially Romantic is the meditation on the conditions of art-making inscribed into their appropriation and reinvention of artistic tradition. Far from being a reactionary move, this self-reflexivity expresses the modernity of Nazarene art. This study explores Nazarenism in a series of detailed excavations of central works in the Nazarene corpus produced between 1808 and the 1860s. The result is a book about the possibility of religious meanin

Author : Moshe Barasch
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136799761
Total Pages : 213 pages
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Download or read book Blindness written by Moshe Barasch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2001-04-13 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a remarkable study of how Western culture has represented blindness, especially in that most visual of arts, painting. Moshe Barasch draws upon not only the span of art history from antiquity to the eighteenth century but also the classical and biblical traditions that underpin so much of artistic representation: Blind Homer, the healing of the blind, blind musicians, blindness as punishment, blindness as a special mark. The book discusses blindness in antiquity, in the Early Christian world, in the Middle Ages, and in the Renaissance, with a final consideration of Diderot.

Author : Michael Levey
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Western Art written by Michael Levey and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Leigh Ashton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315295598
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Routledge Revivals: Chinese Art (1935) written by Leigh Ashton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-19 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1935, this book was intended to provide westerners with a more definite and comprehensive understanding of Chinese Art and its achievements. Newly available opportunities to study authentic examples, such as the Royal Academy exhibition that provided the impetus for this volume, allowed for greater opportunities to conduct in-depth examination than had previously been possible. Following an introduction giving an overview of Chinese art and its history in the west, six chapters cover painting and calligraphy, sculpture and lacquer, ‘the potter’s art’, bronzes and cloisonné enamel, jades, and textiles — supplemented by a chronology of Chinese epochs, a selected bibliography and 25 images.

Author : Erwin Panofsky
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 53 pages
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Download or read book Renaissance and Renascences in Western Art written by Erwin Panofsky and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: