Representing from Life in Seventeenth-century Italy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Representing from Life in Seventeenth-century Italy write by Sheila McTighe. This book was released on 2020-03-06. Representing from Life in Seventeenth-century Italy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In drawing or painting from live models and real landscapes, more was at stake for artists in early modern Italy than achieving greater naturalism. To work with the model in front of your eyes, and to retain their identity in the finished work of art, had an impact on concepts of artistry and authorship, the authority of the image as a source of knowledge, the boundaries between repetition and invention, and even the relation of images to words. This book focuses on artists who worked in Italy, both native Italians and migrants from northern Europe. The practice of depicting from life became a self-conscious departure from the norms of Italian arts. In the context of court culture in Rome and Florence, works by artists ranging from Caravaggio to Claude Lorrain, Pieter van Laer to Jacques Callot, reveal new aspects of their artistic practice and its critical implications.
Fighting the Plague in Seventeenth-century Italy
Fighting the Plague in Seventeenth-century Italy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fighting the Plague in Seventeenth-century Italy write by Carlo M. Cipolla. This book was released on 1981. Fighting the Plague in Seventeenth-century Italy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this volume, Carlo M. Cipolla throws new light on the subject, utilizing newly uncovered and significant archival material.
Milton's Italy
Milton's Italy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Milton's Italy write by Catherine Martin. This book was released on 2016-12-01. Milton's Italy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book joins a growing trend toward transnational literary studies and revives a venerable tradition of Anglo-Italian scholarship centering on John Milton. Correcting misperceptions that have diminished the international dimensions of his life and work, it broadly surveys Milton’s Italianate studies, travels, poetics, politics, and religious convictions. While his debts to Machiavelli and other classical republicans are often noted, few contemporary critics have explored the Italian sources of his anti-papal, anti-episcopal, and anti-formalist religious outlook. Relying on Milton’s own testimony, this book explores its roots in Dante, Petrarch, Ariosto, and that great "Venetian enemy of the pope," Paolo Sarpi, thereby correcting a recent tendency to make native English contexts dominate his development. This tendency is partly due to a mistaken belief that Italy was in steep decline during and after Milton’s travels of 1638-1639, the period immediately before he produced his prose critiques of the English Church, its canon law, and its censorship. Yet these were also fundamentally "Italian" issues that he skillfully adapted to meet contemporary English needs, a practice enabled by his extraordinarily positive experience of the Italian language, cities, academies, and music, the latter of which ultimately influenced Milton’s "operatic" drama, Samson Agonistes. Besides republicanism and theology (radical doctrines of free grace and free will), equally strong influences treated here include Italian Neoplatonism, cosmology, and romance epic. By making these traditions his own, Milton became what John Steadman once described as an "Italianate Englishman" whose classical "literary tastes and critical orientation...were...to a considerable extent" molded by Italian critics (1976), a view that is fully credited and updated here.
English Merchants in Seventeenth-Century Italy
English Merchants in Seventeenth-Century Italy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook English Merchants in Seventeenth-Century Italy write by Gigliola Pagano De Divitiis. This book was released on 1997. English Merchants in Seventeenth-Century Italy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book shows how England's conquest of Mediterranean trade proved to be the first step in building its future economic and commercial hegemony, and how Italy lay at the heart of that process. In the seventeenth century the Mediterranean was the largest market for the colonial products which were exported by English merchants, as well as being a source of raw materials which were indispensable for the growing and increasingly aggressive domestic textile industry. The new free port of Livorno became the linchpin of English trade with the Mediterranean and, together with ports in southern Italy, formed part of a system which enabled the English merchant fleet to take control of the region's trade from the Italians. In her extensive use of English and Italian archival sources, the author looks well beyond Braudel's influential picture of a Spanish-dominated Mediterranean world. In doing so she demonstrates some of the causes of Italy's decline and its subsequent relegation as a dominant force in world trade.
Passaggio in Italia
Passaggio in Italia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Passaggio in Italia write by Dinko Fabris. This book was released on 2015. Passaggio in Italia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Travellers on the Grand Tour came to Italy to see antiquities as well as paintings, flora, and fortifications. They also encountered the most modern Italian music - for concertos, sonatas, operas, oratorios, and cantatas were all invited in the course of the seventeenth century. Passaggio in Italia traces the musical experiences of visitors to Italy, from a Frenchman present at the birth of monody in Florence, a Spaniard attending the public opera theatre in Venice, a Dutchman attending a Roman oratorio, to a Russian describing an organ in Padua and open-air music on the Bay of Naples. The itinerary includes a look at Barbara Strozzi singing for the men of a Venetian academy, the Dutch composer Constantin Huygens absorbing the new Italian music, and listening to Corelli in terms of late Roman Baroque architecture. Music herself travels between Italy and Spain and north to the Netherlands via performers or by print. Also inspired by the five Baroque operas and a Stradella oratorio that were presented for the Early Music Festival Utrecht in 2006, the book gives views onto the lives of the composers Francesco Lucio and Cavalli in Venice, travelling players in Venetian opera, Marazzoli's La Vita humana, and the changing nature of the oratorio in Rome."--Page 4 de la couverture.
