Sixteenth-Century Readers, Fifteenth-Century Books - 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 Sixteenth-Century Readers, Fifteenth-Century Books write by Margaret Connolly. This book was released on 2019-01-17. Sixteenth-Century Readers, Fifteenth-Century Books available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Explores the reception of fifteenth-century English manuscripts and two generations of a Tudor family who owned and read them.
European Art of the Fifteenth Century
European Art of the Fifteenth Century - 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 European Art of the Fifteenth Century write by Stefano Zuffi. This book was released on 2005. European Art of the Fifteenth Century available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Influenced by a revival of interest in Greco-Roman ideals and sponsored by a newly prosperous merchant class, fifteenth-century artists produced works of astonishingly innovative content and technique. The International Gothic style of painting, still popular at the beginning of the century, was giving way to the influence of Early Netherlandish Flemish masters such as Jan van Eyck, who emphasized narrative and the complex use of light for symbolic meaning. Patrons favored paintings in oil and on wooden panels for works ranging from large, hinged altarpieces to small, increasingly lifelike portraits. In the Italian city-states of Florence, Venice, and Mantua, artists and architects alike perfected existing techniques and developed new ones. The painter Masaccio mastered linear perspective; the sculptor Donatello produced anatomically correct but idealized figures such as his bronze nude of David; and the brilliant architect and engineer Brunelleschi integrated Gothic and Renaissance elements to build the self-supporting dome of the Florence Cathedral. This beautifully illustrated guide analyzes the most important people, places, and concepts of this early Renaissance period, whose explosion of creativity was to spread throughout Europe in the sixteenth century
Europe in the Sixteenth Century
Europe in the Sixteenth Century - 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 Europe in the Sixteenth Century write by H.G. Koenigsberger. This book was released on 2014-06-06. Europe in the Sixteenth Century available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This bestselling, seminal book - a general survey of Europe in the era of `Rennaisance and Reformation' - was originally published in Denys Hay's famous Series, `A General History of Europe'. It looks at sixteenth-century Europe as a complex but interconnected whole, rather than as a mosaic of separate states. The authors explore its different aspects through the various political structures of the age - empires, monarchies, city-republics - and how they functioned and related to one another. A strength of the book remains the space it devotes to the growing importance of town-life in the sixteenth century, and to the economic background of political change.
The Book Triumphant
The Book Triumphant - 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 The Book Triumphant write by Malcolm Walsby. This book was released on 2011-08-25. The Book Triumphant available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This edited collection presents new research on the development of printing and bookselling throughout Europe during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, addressing themes such as the Reformation, the transmission of texts and the production and sale of printed books.
Less Rightly Said
Less Rightly Said - 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 Less Rightly Said write by Antonia Szabari. This book was released on 2009-10-23. Less Rightly Said available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Well-known scholars and poets living in sixteenth-century France, including Erasmus, Ronsard, Calvin, and Rabelais, promoted elite satire that "corrected vices" but "spared the person"—yet this period, torn apart by religious differences, also saw the rise of a much cruder, personal satire that aimed at converting readers to its ideological, religious, and, increasingly, political ideas. By focusing on popular pamphlets along with more canonical works, Less Rightly Said shows that the satirists did not simply renounce the moral ideal of elite, humanist scholarship but rather transmitted and manipulated that scholarship according to their ideological needs. Szabari identifies the emergence of a political genre that provides us with a more thorough understanding of the culture of printing and reading, of the political function of invectives, and of the general role of dissensus in early modern French society.
