The Quattro Cento

Author : James McKean
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 1400075912
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Quattrocento written by James McKean and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2003-11-11 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Matt O’Brien, an assistant curator and art restorer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, has always been passionate about the Italian Renaissance. But when he discovers a long-neglected portrait of a beautiful woman among the museum’s miles of storage bins, he becomes obsessed--and not only because he suspects that the painting is by Leonardo da Vinci. Something about the mysterious woman’s exquisite face stirs his memory, and when Matt finds himself spun across the centuries into Quattrocento Italy, where he arrives perfectly attired in 15th century clothing, he appears to be free to pursue her. A magically woven, richly detailed debut, Quattrocento tells an unforgettable tale of art, and love, and the unexpected places places where they meet.

Author : Adrian Stokes
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271022178
Total Pages : 676 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Quattro Cento written by Adrian Stokes and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adrian Stokes (1902-1972) was a British painter and author whose writings on art have been allowed to go out of print despite their impact on Modernism and ongoing acclaim for their beauty and intellectual acuity. Two of his most influential books, The Quattro Cento of 1932 and Stones of Rimini of 1934, are brought together for the first time in this new volume, which includes all their original illustrations. This new edition also provides a foreword by Stephen Bann and introductions by David Carrier and Stephen Kite that place Stokes's masterworks in the context of early twentieth-century culture and discuss their structure and relevance to today's experience of art and architecture.Written as parts of an incomplete trilogy, The Quattro Cento and Stones of Rimini mark a crossroads in the transition from late Victorian to Modernist conceptions of art, especially sculpture and architecture. Stokes continued, even extended, John Ruskin's and Walter Pater's belief that art is essential to the individual's proper psychological development but wove their teaching into a new aesthetic shaped by his analysis with Melanie Klein and recent innovations in literature, dance, and the visual arts.Few writers have been able to invoke the material presence of works of art in the way Stokes does in The Quattro Cento and Stones of Rimini. They combine travel writing with acts of looking spun out so as to reinterpret the imposing legacy of the Italian Renaissance through an aesthetic of the direct carving of stone, which has parallels in the sculpture of Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth but was for Stokes the discovery of artists in fifteenth-century Italy. To his way of thinking, there then arosea realization that the materials of art "were the actual objects of inspiration, the stocks for the deepest fantasies." During the Renaissance, Stokes maintained, stone accordingly "blossomed" into sculpture and buildings,

Author : Stefano Ugo Baldassarri
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300080520
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Images of Quattrocento Florence written by Stefano Ugo Baldassarri and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology provides a panoramic view of fifteenth-century Florence in the words of the city's own citizens and visitors. The fifty-one selections offer glimpses into Renaissance thought. Together, the documents demonstrate the social, political, religious, and cultural impact Florence had in shaping the Italian and European Renaissance, and they reveal how Florence created, developed, and diffused the mythology of its own origins and glory. The documents point up the divergences in quattrocento accounts of the origins of Florence, and they reveal the importance of the city's economy, social life, and military success to the formation of its image. The book includes sources that elaborate on the city's accomplishments in literature and the visual arts, others that present major trends in Florentine religious life, and still others that attest to the acclaim and admiration that Florence evoked from foreign visitors. The editors also provide an informative introduction, a detailed chronology of fifteenth-century Italy, maps, photographs, an annotated bibliography, and a biographical sketch of the author of each document.

Author : Adrian Stokes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Quattro Cento written by Adrian Stokes and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Adrian Stokes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Quattro Cento, a Different Conception of the Italian Renaissance written by Adrian Stokes and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Adrian Stokes
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351748572
Total Pages : 668 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Quattro Cento and Stones of Rimini written by Adrian Stokes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-27 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2002. Adrian Stokes was a British painter and writer whose books on art have been allowed to go out of print despite their impact on Modernist culture. This new edition of The Quattro Cento and The Stones of Rimini presents the original texts of 1932 and 1934 and furnishes them with introductions by David Carrier and Stephen Kite that will help readers grasp the structure and significance of what have become Stokes' most widely cited and influential books. Written as parts of an incomplete trilogy, The Quattro Cento and The Stones of Rimini mark a crossroad in the transition from late Victorian to Modernist conceptions of art, especially sculpture and architecture. Stokes continued, even expanded, John Ruskin's and Walter Pater's belief that art is essential to the individual's proper psychological development but wove their teaching into a new aesthetic shaped by his experience of psychoanalysis and recent innovations in literature, dance, and the visual arts. This volume will be of interest to those concerned with art criticism, aesthetics and psychoanalysis, as well as the art and architecture of the Renaissance and Modern periods. Supported by the Henry Moore Foundation in memory of David Sylvester.

Author : Adrian Stokes (Writer on Art.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Quattro Cento: a Different Conception of the Italian Renaissance, Etc. [With Plates.]. written by Adrian Stokes (Writer on Art.) and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Adrian Stokes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Quattro Cento written by Adrian Stokes and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Timothy Verdon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christianity and the Renaissance written by Timothy Verdon and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Adrian Stokes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Quattro Cento, a Different Conception of the Italian Renaissance. Part One written by Adrian Stokes and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: