Hidden Faces Covered Portraits Of The Renaissance

Author : Alison Manges Nogueira
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2024-04-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781588397751

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Hidden Faces: Covered Portraits of the Renaissance by Alison Manges Nogueira Pdf

Many small Renaissance portraits were richly adorned with covers or backs bearing allegorical figures, mythological scenes, or emblems that celebrated the sitter and invited the viewer to decipher their meaning. Hidden Faces includes seventy objects, ranging in format from covered paintings to miniature boxes, that illuminate the symbiotic relationship between the portrait and its pair. Texts by thirteen distinguished scholars vividly illustrate that the other “faces” of these portraits represent some of the most innovative images of the Renaissance, created by masters such as Hans Memling and Titian. Uniting works that have in some cases been separated for centuries, this fascinating volume shows how the multifaceted format unveiled the sitter’s identity, both by physically revealing the portrait and reading the significance behind its cover.

Author : Patricia Lee Rubin
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Art, Italian
ISBN : 9781588394255

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The Renaissance Portrait by Patricia Lee Rubin Pdf

Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Bode-Museum, Berlin, Aug. 25-Nov. 20, 2011, and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Dec. 21, 2011-Mar. 18, 2012.

Author : Joseph Leo Koerner
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Art
ISBN : 0226449998

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The Moment of Self-Portraiture in German Renaissance Art by Joseph Leo Koerner Pdf

So foundational is this invention to modern aesthetics, Koerner argues, that interpreting it takes us to the limits of traditional art-historical method. Self-portraiture becomes legible less through a history leading up to it, or through a sum of contexts that occasion it, than through its historical sight-line to the present. After a thorough examination of Durer's startlingly new self-portraits, the author turns to the work of Baldung, Durer's most gifted pupil, and demonstrates how the apprentice willfully disfigured Durer's vision. Baldung replaced the master's self-portraits with some of the most obscene and bizarre pictures in the history of art. In images of nude witches, animated cadavers, and copulating horses, Baldung portrays the debased self of the viewer as the true subject of art. The Moment of Self-Portraiture thus unfolds as passages from teacher to student, artist to viewer, reception, all within a culture that at once deified and abhorred originality.

Author : Lorne Campbell,Philip Attwood,National Gallery (Great Britain)
Publisher : National Gallery London
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015082670186

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Renaissance Faces by Lorne Campbell,Philip Attwood,National Gallery (Great Britain) Pdf

"This survey traces the development of portrait painting in Northern and Southern Europe during the Renaissance, when the genre first flourished. Both regions developed their own distinct styles and techniques, but each was influenced by the other. Focusing on the relationship between artists of the north and south, renowned specialists analyse the notion of likeness - at that time based not only on accurate reference to posterity, but incorporating all aspects of human life, including propaganda, power, courtship, love, family, ambition and hierarchy. Essays and individual catalogue entries present new research on works by some of the greatest portraitists of the period, including Giovanni Bellini, Sandro Botticelli, Lucas Cranach, Albrecht Durer, Jan van Eyck, Hans Holbein and Titan, all magnificently illustrated."--Jacket.

Author : Jonathan Jones
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857203212

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The Loves of the Artists by Jonathan Jones Pdf

A sweeping, epic history of the Renaissance artists, seen through the lens of something that perhaps occupied their thoughts and influenced their art the most…sex. Taking Donatello's provocative reinvention of the nude as his starting point, Jonathan shows how the story of the Renaissance is the story of a sexual revolution. The great artists of the 15th and 16th century were not just visionaries, but lovers. Jonathan argues that the famous nudes of Michelangelo and Titian are not abstract images of ideal beauty, but erotic expressions of love and desire; and that in order to understand the Renaissance, we have to understand the sex lives of the men and women who defined it - men like Raphael, who obsessively painted his lover La Fornarina in the nude, Michelangelo, who made beautiful drawings of naked male bodies to present to the young man he adored, and Rembrandt, whose bedroom portraits of Hendrickje Stoffels are the frankest expressions of love anywhere in art.Sweeping from its origins in Florence in the mid-15th century to its culmination in the work of Rubens and Rembrandt in the 17th, The Loves of the Artistsshows that the Renaissance invented eroticism as we know it, and that the new ways of thinking about sex it engendered are crucial to understanding not only art but European culture as a whole.

Author : Lucy R. Lippard
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520340619

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Six Years by Lucy R. Lippard Pdf

In Six Years Lucy R. Lippard documents the chaotic network of ideas that has been labeled conceptual art. The book is arranged as an annotated chronology into which is woven a rich collection of original documents—including texts by and taped discussions among and with the artists involved and by Lippard, who has also provided a new preface for this edition. The result is a book with the character of a lively contemporary forum that offers an invaluable record of the thinking of the artists—a historical survey and essential reference book for the period.

Author : Alteveer, Ian,Wagstaff, Sheena
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-25
Category : Site-specific installations (Art)
ISBN : 9781588395528

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The Roof Garden Commission: Dan Graham by Alteveer, Ian,Wagstaff, Sheena Pdf

"The artist Dan Graham (b. 1942) has a wide-ranging practice that encompasses writing, performance art, installation, video, photography, and architecture. Throughout his career, Graham has examined the symbiosis between architectural environments and their inhabitants, particularly in his pavilions made of glass and mirrors. His new installation, created for the roof garden of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, addresses current issues about suburban psychology and political surveillance. Graham's work combines landscaping, hedges, and two-way mirrors to create a provocative, immersive experience for viewers. This creatively designed publication includes an insightful interview between the artist and Sheena Wagstaff and focuses not only on Graham's latest commission but also on his previous landscape-oriented installations, providing a focused, fascinating study of one of today's leading contemporary artists."--Publisher's website.

Author : Nicholas Mann,Luke Syson
Publisher : British Museum Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Portrait painting, European
ISBN : UOM:39076002659550

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The Image of the Individual by Nicholas Mann,Luke Syson Pdf

These essays develop and challenge the supposition that the portrait in the Renaissance is connected with the 'cult of personality' which emerged in the 15th century and provoked people to record their features accurately.

Author : Richard Stemp
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : 1844833224

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The Secret Language of the Renaissance by Richard Stemp Pdf

Magnificently illustrated throughout, and with a six-color gold-foil cover, this remarkable book provides an all-encompassing survey of the literature, painting, sculpture, architecture, and decorative arts of the Renaissance.

Author : Merav Mack,Benjamin Balint
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300245219

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Jerusalem by Merav Mack,Benjamin Balint Pdf

A captivating journey through the hidden libraries of Jerusalem, where some of the world’s most enduring ideas were put into words In this enthralling book, Merav Mack and Benjamin Balint explore Jerusalem’s libraries to tell the story of this city as a place where some of the world’s most enduring ideas were put into words. The writers of Jerusalem, although renowned the world over, are not usually thought of as a distinct school; their stories as Jerusalemites have never before been woven into a single narrative. Nor have the stories of the custodians, past and present, who safeguard Jerusalem’s literary legacies. By showing how Jerusalem has been imagined by its writers and shelved by its librarians, Mack and Balint tell the untold history of how the peoples of the book have populated the city with texts. In their hands, Jerusalem itself—perched between East and West, antiquity and modernity, violence and piety—comes alive as a kind of labyrinthine library.

Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Art, German
ISBN : 9780870994661

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Gothic and Renaissance Art in Nuremberg, 1300-1550 by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) Pdf

Author : Bosiljka Raditsa
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Art, Renaissance
ISBN : 9780870999536

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The Art of Renaissance Europe by Bosiljka Raditsa Pdf

Works in the Museum's collection that embody the Renaissance interest in classical learning, fame, and beautiful objects are illustrated and discussed in this resource and will help educators introduce the richness and diversity of Renaissance art to their students. Primary source texts explore the great cities and powerful personalities of the age. By studying gesture and narrative, students can work as Renaissance artists did when they created paintings and drawings. Learning about perspective, students explore the era's interest in science and mathematics. Through projects based on poetic forms of the time, students write about their responses to art. The activities and lesson plans are designed for a variety of classroom needs and can be adapted to a specific curriculum as well as used for independent study. The resource also includes a bibliography and glossary.

Author : Marina Belozerskaya
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2005-10-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780892367856

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Luxury Arts of the Renaissance by Marina Belozerskaya Pdf

Today we associate the Renaissance with painting, sculpture, and architecture—the “major” arts. Yet contemporaries often held the “minor” arts—gem-studded goldwork, richly embellished armor, splendid tapestries and embroideries, music, and ephemeral multi-media spectacles—in much higher esteem. Isabella d’Este, Marchesa of Mantua, was typical of the Italian nobility: she bequeathed to her children precious stone vases mounted in gold, engraved gems, ivories, and antique bronzes and marbles; her favorite ladies-in-waiting, by contrast, received mere paintings. Renaissance patrons and observers extolled finely wrought luxury artifacts for their exquisite craftsmanship and the symbolic capital of their components; paintings and sculptures in modest materials, although discussed by some literati, were of lesser consequence. This book endeavors to return to the mainstream material long marginalized as a result of historical and ideological biases of the intervening centuries. The author analyzes how luxury arts went from being lofty markers of ascendancy and discernment in the Renaissance to being dismissed as “decorative” or “minor” arts—extravagant trinkets of the rich unworthy of the status of Art. Then, by re-examining the objects themselves and their uses in their day, she shows how sumptuous creations constructed the world and taste of Renaissance women and men.

Author : Clare Gibson
Publisher : Gardners Books
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 188735459X

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The Hidden Life of Renaissance Art by Clare Gibson Pdf

Helps you learn how to decipher the hidden meanings beneath the surface of a Renaissance masterpiece, whether sacred, mythological, allegorical, or a portrait.

Author : Anthony Bond,Joanna Woodall,Timothy J. Clark,L. J. Jordanova,Joseph Leo Koerner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Art
ISBN : UCR:31210021107840

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Self Portrait by Anthony Bond,Joanna Woodall,Timothy J. Clark,L. J. Jordanova,Joseph Leo Koerner Pdf

This text celebrates the lives of artists and their unique perspective on themselves and their work. An impressive array of self-portraits is presented in this major survey of the genre from the fifteenth century to the present day.