Alessandro Vittoria And The Portrait Bust In Renaissance Venice

Author : Thomas Martin
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015047499184

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Alessandro Vittoria and the Portrait Bust in Renaissance Venice by Thomas Martin Pdf

The first examination of Alessandro Vittoria in English, this book is also the first devoted to his work in over 35 years, and provides a much-needed analysis of the chronology and style of Vittoria's portrait busts. Vittoria was one of the greatest sculptors of 16th century Italy, and the greatest portraitist in Italian sculpture prior to Bernini. The book both clarifies the work of a major Renaissance artist and places it in context by explaining how Vittoria, who produced portraits modelled on ancient Roman busts, was responding to cultural and political forces which fostered a classicizing style in Venice. Special attention is devoted to Vittoria's patrons, many of whom were collectors of ancient art. Professor Martin demonstrates that, even more than Palladio's buildings, the portrait busts of Vittoria were the foremost expression of classicism in Renaissance Venice.

Author : Norbert Huse,Wolfgang Wolters
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1993-10-30
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0226361098

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The Art of Renaissance Venice by Norbert Huse,Wolfgang Wolters Pdf

Norbert Huse and Wolfgang Wolters provide the first contemporary single-volume survey of the three arts of Venice -- painting, sculpture, and architecture. They offer an important counterbalance to the traditional orientation toward painting as the city's preeminent art by focusing on architecture as the essential Venetian artistic medium. In the process, they define the distinctly Venetian terms by which the city and culture should be understood. Huse and Wolters begin their study with 1460, when Venice was one of the key powers of Italy, and end their discussion with the death of Tintoretto in 1594, a period of waning international power. Wolfgang Wolters outlines the city's development and present a typological survey of Venetian architecture. A review of sculptors and their works follows. Norbert Huse opens the next section, on painting, by describing the changed situation of painters at the end of the fifteenth century. He explores the different forms and functions of Venetian paintings in three distinct periods. With over three hundred illustrations and an exhaustive bibliography, this volume successfully fills a gap in art historical scholarship. -- From publisher's description.

Author : Toto Bergamo Rossi
Publisher : Marsilio Editori
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Art
ISBN : 9791254630389

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From Donatello to Alessandro Vittoria 1450-1600. 150 Years of Sculpture in the Republic of Venice. Ediz. a Colori by Toto Bergamo Rossi Pdf

On the lagoon city's golden age of sculptural innovation This volume analyzes key moments in the history of sculpture in Venice from the early Renaissance to late Mannerism (mid-15th to early 17th century), highlighting the complexity and richness of the stylistic and iconographic features converging on the city in those years of great renewal. Donatello's influence reached Venice around 1423, through the arrival of Florentine sculptors such as Pietro di Niccolò Lamberti and Nanni di Bartolo, but the great sculptor's stay for an entire decade (1443-53) in Padua, a city that was part of the dominions of Venice, was certainly decisive. Around the second half of the 15th century, the sculptors and architects Antonio Rizzo and Pietro Lombardo, together with the latter's sons--Tullio and Antonio--were protagonists of this period of rebirth. By the mid-16th century the dominant figure was Sansovino, a genuine "starchitect" of the Republic who disseminated the influence of Mannerism.

Author : Patricia Fortini Brown
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300102369

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Private Lives in Renaissance Venice by Patricia Fortini Brown Pdf

"As the sixteenth century opened, members of the patriciate were increasingly withdrawing from trade, desiring to be seen as "gentlemen in fact" as well as "gentlemen in name." The author considers why this was so and explores such wide-ranging themes as attitudes toward wealth and display, the articulation of family identity, the interplay between the public and the private, and the emergence of characteristically Venetian decorative practices and styles of art and architecture. Brown focuses new light on the visual culture of Venetian women - how they lived within, furnished, and decorated their homes; what spaces were allotted to them; what their roles and domestic tasks were; how they dressed; how they raised their children; and how they entertained. Bringing together both high arts and low, the book examines all aspects of Renaissance material culture."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : KelleyHelmstutler DiDio
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351559508

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Making and Moving Sculpture in Early Modern Italy by KelleyHelmstutler DiDio Pdf

In recent years, art historians have begun to delve into the patronage, production and reception of sculptures-sculptors' workshop practices; practical, aesthetic, and esoteric considerations of material and materiality; and the meanings associated with materials and the makers of sculptures. This volume brings together some of the top scholars in the field, to investigate how sculptors in early modern Italy confronted such challenges as procurement of materials, their costs, shipping and transportation issues, and technical problems of materials, along with the meanings of the usage, hierarchies of materials, and processes of material acquisition and production. Contributors also explore the implications of these facets in terms of the intended and perceived meaning(s) for the viewer, patron, and/or artist. A highlight of the collection is the epilogue, an interview with a contemporary artist of large-scale stone sculpture, which reveals the similar challenges sculptors still encounter today as they procure, manufacture and transport their works.

Author : Charles Yriarte
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Art, Italian
ISBN : OSU:32435006274781

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Venice by Charles Yriarte Pdf

Author : Katherine T. Brown
Publisher : Olschki
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015052392217

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The Painter's Reflection by Katherine T. Brown Pdf

Author : Lorenzo G. Buonanno
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000540499

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The Performance of Sculpture in Renaissance Venice by Lorenzo G. Buonanno Pdf

This study reveals the broad material, devotional, and cultural implications of sculpture in Renaissance Venice. Examining a wide range of sources—the era’s art-theoretical and devotional literature, guidebooks and travel diaries, and artworks in various media—Lorenzo Buonanno recovers the sculptural values permeating a city most famous for its painting. The book traces the interconnected phenomena of audience response, display and thematization of sculptural bravura, and artistic self-fashioning. It will be of interest to scholars working in art history, Renaissance history, early modern art and architecture, material culture, and Italian studies.

Author : Dr Nebahat Avcioglu
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-23
Category : Art
ISBN : 1472410823

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Architecture, Art and Identity in Venice and its Territories, 1450–1750 by Dr Nebahat Avcioglu Pdf

Inspired by Deborah Howard’s leading role in fostering a historically grounded and interdisciplinary approach to the art and architecture of Venice, the essays here examine the connections and rapports between art and identity through the discussion of patronage, space (domestic and ecclesiastical), and dissemination of architectural knowledge as well as models within Venice, its territories and beyond.

Author : Nebahat Avcioglu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351575959

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"Architecture, Art and Identity in Venice and its Territories, 1450?750 " by Nebahat Avcioglu Pdf

Cities are shaped as much by a repertoire of buildings, works and objects, as by cultural institutions, ideas and interactions between forms and practices entangled in identity formations. This is particularly true when seen through a city as forceful and splendid as Venice. The essays in this volume investigate these connections between art and identity, through discussions of patronage, space and the dissemination of architectural models and knowledge in Venice, its territories and beyond. They celebrate Professor Deborah Howard?s leading role in fostering a historically grounded and interdisciplinary approach to the art and architecture of Venice. Based on an examination and re-interpretation of a wide range of archival material and primary sources, the contributing authors approach the notion of identity in its many guises: as self-representation, as strong sub-currents of spatial strategies, as visual and semantic discourses, and as political and imperial aspirations. Employing interdisciplinary modes of interpretation, these studies offer ground-breaking analyses of canonical sites and works of art, diverse groups of patrons, as well as the life and oeuvre of leading architects such as Jacopo Sansovino and Andrea Palladio. In so doing, they link together citizens and nobles, past and present, the real and the symbolic, space and sound, religion and power, the city and its parts, Venice and the Stato da Mar, the Serenissima and the Sublime Port.

Author : Charles Avery
Publisher : Philip Wilson Publishers
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781781301036

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Il Bresciano by Charles Avery Pdf

The first comprehensive study of an important Italian Renaissance bronze-caster by a leading authority. A nucleus of sculptures cast by Andrea di Alessandri , commonly called from his native city, "Il Bresciano," or from his products, "Andrea dai bronzi," has been identified over the centuries. His style has been described as having similarities both with the High Renaissance of Sansovino and the Mannerism of Vittoria, the two successive master-sculptors of 16th-century Venice for whom he cast major bronzes. Andrea's signed masterpiece is a Paschal Candlestick in bronze, over two metres high and with sixty or more fascinating figures, made for Sansovino's magnificent lost church of Santo Spirito in 1568 and now in Santa Maria della Salute. The author's identification in 1996 of a pair of magnificent Firedogs with sphinx feet (which in 1568 had been recommended to Prince Francesco de'Medici in Florence), and in 2015 of an elaborate figurative bronze Ewer in Verona, have been the culmination of the process of recognition. Archival research has at last revealed the span of Andrea's life as 1524/25-1573, as well as many significant facts about his family and patronage. So the time is ripe for this comprehensive, well-illustrated, book on Il Bresciano, a "new" and major bronzistà in the great tradition of north Italy.

Author : Peta Motture
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Terra-cotta sculpture, Italian
ISBN : 9780300090802

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Earth and Fire by Peta Motture Pdf

Author : Raymond B. Waddington
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0802088147

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Aretino's Satyr by Raymond B. Waddington Pdf

Pietro Aretino's literary influence was felt throughout most of Europe during the sixteenth-century, yet English-language criticism of this writer's work and persona has hitherto been sparse. Raymond B. Waddington's study redresses this oversight, drawing together literary and visual arts criticism in its examination of Aretino's carefully cultivated scandalous persona - a persona created through his writings, his behaviour and through a wide variety of visual arts and crafts. In the Renaissance, it was believed that satire originated from satyrs. The satirist Aretino promoted himself as a satyr, the natural being whose sexuality guarantees its truthfulness. Waddington shows how Aretino's own construction of his public identity came to eclipse the value of his writings, causing him to be denigrated as a pornographer and blackmailer. Arguing that Aretino's deployment of an artistic network for self-promotional ends was so successful that for a period his face was possibly the most famous in Western Europe, Waddington also defends Aretino, describing his involvement in the larger sphere of the production and promotion of the visual arts of the period. Aretino's Satyr is richly illustrated with examples of the visual media used by the writer to create his persona. These include portraits by major artists, and arti minori: engravings, portrait medals and woodcuts.

Author : Carlo Moretti
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HNJZTA

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Venice by Carlo Moretti Pdf

Author : Allison Sherman (1979-2017)
Publisher : Independent Publishing Network
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781838538897

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The Lost Venetian Church of Santa Maria Assunta dei Crociferi by Allison Sherman (1979-2017) Pdf

Version: 1.1.2 DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4284460 Original Repository (Zenodo): https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4094821 This book investigates the history and decoration of one of the most important churches of Venice in the 16th century: Santa Maria Assunta dei Crociferi. Painters and sculptors of the stature of Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese, Palma il Giovane, Vittoria and Campagna all contributed major works of art, many of which survive in the present-day church of the Gesuiti. But as a result of the suppression of the order of the Crociferi (Crosiers, or Crutched Friars) in 1656, and of the subsequent demolition of their church, the art-historical significance of this ensemble had become largely overlooked. Serious study of the church was further impeded by the loss of the church’s archive. Nevertheless, readers are here presented with a surprisingly wide range of alternative archival and early printed sources that document the history of the church, and integrate it with the surviving works of art. We are taken on a journey of discovery of leading members of the order, of lay patrons who supported the church's renovation, and of the productive relationships that led to important artistic commissions. Originally submitted by the late Allison Sherman to the University of St Andrews in 2010, the present doctoral thesis was edited for publication by Carlo Corsato and provided with a full set of illustrations. Two further additional essays by Allison Sherman are also included: ‘Titian’s Martyrdom of St. Lawrence and its Original Location in the Lost Venetian Church of Santa Maria Assunta dei Crociferi’. This was the opening chapter of the volume La Notte di san Lorenzo (2013), edited by Letizia Lonzi and the late Lionello Puppi. Presented here is the unpublished original English version, which summarises many of the discoveries included in the doctoral dissertation. ‘Murder and Martyrdom: Titian’s Gesuiti St. Lawrence as a Family Peace Offering’. This appeared in Artibus et Historiae (2015), and offers the most significant investigation of the patronage of a masterpiece by Titian: The Martyrdom of St Lawrence (Church of the Gesuiti, Venice).