The Library and Manuscripts of Piero Di Cosimo De'Medici - 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 Library and Manuscripts of Piero Di Cosimo De'Medici write by Francis Ames-Lewis. This book was released on 1977. The Library and Manuscripts of Piero Di Cosimo De'Medici available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Library and Manuscripts of Piero Di Cosimo De'Medici
The Library and Manuscripts of Piero Di Cosimo De'Medici - 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 Library and Manuscripts of Piero Di Cosimo De'Medici write by Francis Ames-Lewis. This book was released on 1984. The Library and Manuscripts of Piero Di Cosimo De'Medici available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Piero di Cosimo
Piero di Cosimo - 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 Piero di Cosimo write by Dennis Geronimus. This book was released on 2019-03-25. Piero di Cosimo available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The study of Piero di Cosimo belongs no less to the history of the imagination than to the history of art. As was true for Giorgio Vasari five centuries ago, Piero’s intensely personal visual language remains a moving target for modern scholars. Yet, as surprising and strange as his pictorial solutions appear, we have never known as much about Piero as we do today. Freed from the powerful spell of Vasari’s biography-cum-cautionary tale, the Piero that emerges is not solely a conjurer of the uncanny, but a sensitive observer of the emotions, the natural and manmade worlds, humans and beasts, surfaces and coloristic effects, phenomena material and ephemeral. The conference from which the thirteen essays in this volume spring provided a forum for international scholars to continue the ongoing conversation and to ask new questions. The latter address Piero’s relationship to his artistic contemporaries, north and south of the Alps; the master’s Marian imagery; his intellectual engagement with classical traditions; the dual themes of naturalism and exoticism; and the latest technical findings. Topics of investigation thus range as broadly as Piero’s own versatile production, uniting diverse fields and methods, traversing regional boundaries, and often venturing far beyond Florence’s city walls, into the wild. Contributors are Ianthi Assimakopoulou, Marina Belozerskaya, Jean Cadogan, Elena Capretti, Alessandra Galizzi Kroegel, Dennis Geronimus, Guy Hedreen, Sarah Blake McHam, Anna Teresa Monti, Paula Nuttall, Roberta J.M. Olson, Lesley Stevenson, Lisa Venerosi Pesciolini, and Elizabeth Walmsley.
The Manuscripts Club
The Manuscripts Club - 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 Manuscripts Club write by Christopher de Hamel. This book was released on 2023-11-14. The Manuscripts Club available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. * A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * The acclaimed author of Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts introduces us to the extraordinary keepers and companions of medieval manuscripts over a thousand years of history The illuminated manuscripts of the Middle Ages are among the greatest works of European art and literature. We are dazzled by them and recognize their crucial role in the transmission of knowledge. However, we generally think much less about the countless men and women who made, collected and preserved them through the centuries, and to whom they owe their existence. This entrancing book describes some of the extraordinary people who have spent their lives among illuminated manuscripts over the last thousand years: a monk in Normandy, a prince of France, a Florentine bookseller, an English antiquary, a rabbi from central Europe, a French priest, a Keeper at the British Museum, a Greek forger, a German polymath, a British connoisseur and the woman who created the most spectacular library in America—all of them members of what Christopher de Hamel calls the Manuscripts Club. This exhilarating fraternity, and the fellow enthusiasts who come with it, throw new light on how manuscripts have survived and been used by very different kinds of people in many different circumstances. Christopher de Hamel’s unexpected connections and discoveries reveal a passion that crosses the boundaries of time. We understand the manuscripts themselves better by knowing who their keepers and companions have been. In 1850 (or thereabouts) John Ruskin bought his first manuscript “at a bookseller’s in a back alley.” This was his reaction: “The new worlds which every leaf of this book opened to me, and the joy I had in counting their letters and unravelling their arabesques as if they had all been of beaten gold—as many of them were—cannot be told.” The members of de Hamel’s club share many such wonders, which he brings to us with scholarship, style and a lifetime’s experience.
Lorenzo De' Medici at Home
Lorenzo De' Medici at Home - 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 Lorenzo De' Medici at Home write by Richard Stapleford. This book was released on 2013. Lorenzo De' Medici at Home available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "An inventory of the private possessions of Lorenzo il Magnifico de' Medici, head of the ruling Medici family during the apogee of the Florentine Renaissance"--Provided by publisher.
