Renaissance Theory

Author : James Elkins,Robert Williams
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 818 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781135902452

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Renaissance Theory by James Elkins,Robert Williams Pdf

Renaissance Theory presents an animated conversation among art historians about the optimal ways of conceptualizing Renaissance art, and the links between Renaissance art and contemporary art and theory. This is the first discussion of its kind, involving not only questions within Renaissance scholarship, but issues of concern to art historians and critics in all fields. Organized as a virtual roundtable discussion, the contributors discuss rifts and disagreements about how to understand the Renaissance and debate the principal texts and authors of the last thirty years who have sought to reconceptualize the period. They then turn to the issue of the relation between modern art and the Renaissance: Why do modern art historians and critics so seldom refer to the Renaissance? Is the Renaissance our indispensable heritage, or are we cut off from it by the revolution of modernism? The volume includes an introduction by Rebecca Zorach and two final, synoptic essays, as well as contributions from some of the most prominent thinkers on Renaissance art including Stephen Campbell, Michael Cole, Frederika Jakobs, Claire Farago, and Matt Kavaler.

Author : James Elkins,Robert Williams
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2008-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781135902469

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Renaissance Theory by James Elkins,Robert Williams Pdf

Renaissance Theory presents an animated conversation among art historians about the optimal ways of conceptualizing Renaissance art, and the links between Renaissance art and contemporary art and theory. This is the first discussion of its kind, involving not only questions within Renaissance scholarship, but issues of concern to art historians and critics in all fields. Organized as a virtual roundtable discussion, the contributors discuss rifts and disagreements about how to understand the Renaissance and debate the principal texts and authors of the last thirty years who have sought to reconceptualize the period. They then turn to the issue of the relation between modern art and the Renaissance: Why do modern art historians and critics so seldom refer to the Renaissance? Is the Renaissance our indispensable heritage, or are we cut off from it by the revolution of modernism? The volume includes an introduction by Rebecca Zorach and two final, synoptic essays, as well as contributions from some of the most prominent thinkers on Renaissance art including Stephen Campbell, Michael Cole, Frederika Jakobs, Claire Farago, and Matt Kavaler.

Author : CristleCollins Judd
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 635 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351556842

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Musical Theory in the Renaissance by CristleCollins Judd Pdf

This volume of essays draws together recent work on historical music theory of the Renaissance. The collection spans the major themes addressed by Renaissance writers on music and highlights the differing approaches to this body of work by modern scholars, including: historical and theoretical perspectives; consideration of the broader cultural context for writing about music in the Renaissance; and the dissemination of such work. Selected from a variety of sources ranging from journals, monographs and specialist edited volumes, to critical editions, translations and facsimiles, these previously published articles reflect a broad chronological and geographical span, and consider Renaissance sources that range from the overtly pedagogical to the highly speculative. Taken together, this collection enables consideration of key essays side by side aided by the editor‘s introductory essay which highlights ongoing debates and offers a general framework for interpreting past and future directions in the study of historical music theory from the Renaissance.

Author : Dr Charles H Carman,Professor John Shannon Hendrix
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781409486510

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Renaissance Theories of Vision by Dr Charles H Carman,Professor John Shannon Hendrix Pdf

How are processes of vision, perception, and sensation conceived in the Renaissance? How are those conceptions made manifest in the arts? The essays in this volume address these and similar questions to establish important theoretical and philosophical bases for artistic production in the Renaissance and beyond. The essays also attend to the views of historically significant writers from the ancient classical period to the eighteenth century, including Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, St Augustine, Ibn Sina (Avicenna), Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen), Ibn Sahl, Marsilio Ficino, Nicholas of Cusa, Leon Battista Alberti, Gian Paolo Lomazzo, Gregorio Comanini, John Davies, Rene Descartes, Samuel van Hoogstraten, and George Berkeley. Contributors carefully scrutinize and illustrate the effect of changing and evolving ideas of intellectual and physical vision on artistic practice in Florence, Rome, Venice, England, Austria, and the Netherlands. The artists whose work and practices are discussed include Fra Angelico, Donatello, Leonardo da Vinci, Filippino Lippi, Giovanni Bellini, Raphael, Parmigianino, Titian, Bronzino, Johannes Gumpp and Rembrandt van Rijn. Taken together, the essays provide the reader with a fresh perspective on the intellectual confluence between art, science, philosophy, and literature across Renaissance Europe.

Author : Christina Neilson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107172852

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Practice and Theory in the Italian Renaissance Workshop by Christina Neilson Pdf

Verrocchio worked in an extraordinarily wide array of media and used unusual practices of making to express ideas.

Author : Giovanni Paolo Gallucci
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9791036560798

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Gallucci's Commentary on Dürer's 'Four Books on Human Proportion' by Giovanni Paolo Gallucci Pdf

In 1591, Giovanni Paolo Gallucci published his Della simmetria dei corpi humani, an Italian translation of Albrecht Dürer's Four Books on Human Proportion. While Dürer's treatise had been translated earlier in the sixteenth-century into French and Latin, it was Gallucci's Italian translation that endured in popularity as the most cited version of the text in later Baroque treatises, covering topics that were seen as central to arts education, connoisseurship, patronage, and the wider appreciation of the studia humanitatis in general. The text centres on the relationships between beauty and proportion, macrocosm and microcosm : relationships that were not only essential to the visual arts in the early modern era, but that cut across a range of disciplines - music, physiognomics and humoral readings, astronomy, astrology and cosmology, theology and philosophy, even mnemonics and poetry. In his version of the text, Gallucci expanded the educational potential of the treatise by adding a Preface, a Life of Dürer, and a Fifth Book providing a philosophical framework within which to interpret Dürer's previous sections. This translation is the first to make these original contributions by Gallucci accessible to an English-speaking audience. Gallucci's contributions illuminate the significance of symmetry and proportion in the contemporary education of the early modern era, informing our understanding of the intellectual history of this period, and the development of art theory and criticism. This is a valuable resource to early modern scholars and students alike, especially those specialising in history of art, philosophy, history of science, and poetry. As with all Open Book publications, this entire book is available to read for free on the publisher's website. Printed and digital editions, together with supplementary digital material, can also be found at www.openbookpublishers.com.

Author : James S. Ackerman
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0262510774

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Distance Points by James S. Ackerman Pdf

These essays by one of America's foremost historians of art and architecture range over theory and criticism, the search for connections between art and science in the Renaissance, and specific works of Renaissance architecture. The largest group of essays, dealing with the character of Renaissance architecture, are models of art historical scholarship in their direct approach to identifying the essentials of a building and the social and intellectual context in which they should be viewed. Another group of essays explores encounters between the traditions of artistic practice and early optics and color theory. The three essays that begin this collection bring to light the intellectual and moral concerns that underlie all of Ackerman's art historical work.

Author : Moshe Barasch
Publisher : New York : New York University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Color in art
ISBN : 0814709958

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Light and Color in the Italian Renaissance Theory of Art by Moshe Barasch Pdf

Author : Cristle Collins Judd
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2000-11-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521771447

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Reading Renaissance Music Theory by Cristle Collins Judd Pdf

Enth. u.a. "The polyphony of Heinrich Glarean's 'Dodecachordon'" (S. 115-176).

Author : Professor Michele Marrapodi
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781409478423

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Shakespeare and Renaissance Literary Theories by Professor Michele Marrapodi Pdf

Throwing fresh light on a much discussed but still controversial field, this collection of essays places the presence of Italian literary theories against and alongside the background of English dramatic traditions, to assess this influence in the emergence of Elizabethan theatrical convention and the innovative dramatic practices under the early Stuarts. Contributors respond anew to the process of cultural exchange, cultural transaction, and generic intertextuality involved in the debate on dramatic theory and literary kinds in the Renaissance, exploring, with special emphasis on Shakespeare's works, the level of cultural appropriation, contamination, revision, and subversion characterizing early modern English drama. Shakespeare and Renaissance Literary Theories offers a wide range of approaches and critical viewpoints of leading international scholars concerning questions which are still open to debate and which may pave the way to further groundbreaking analyses on Shakespeare's art of dramatic construction and that of his contemporaries.

Author : Irving Singer
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009-02-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780262265225

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The Nature of Love, Volume 2 by Irving Singer Pdf

An examination of ideas and ideals of medieval courtly love and the transition into later Romantic love, analyzing the work of Dante, Shakespeare, and Schopenhauer, among many others. Review), "monumental" (Boston Globe), "one of the major works of philosophy in our century" (Nous), "wise and magisterial" (Times Literary Supplement), and a "masterpiece of critical thinking [that] is a timely, eloquent, and scrupulous account of what, after all, still makes the world go round" (Christian Science Monitor). In the second volume, Singer studies the ideas and ideals of medieval courtly love and nineteenth-century Romantic love, as well as the transition between these two perspectives. According to the traditions of courtly love in the twelfth century and thereafter, not only God but also human beings in themselves are capable of authentic love. The pursuit of love between man and woman was seen as a splendid ideal that ennobles both the lover and the beloved. It was something more than libidinal sexuality and involved sophisticated and highly refined courtliness that emulated religious love in its ability to create a holy union between the participants. Adherents to Romantic love in later centuries, affirmed the capacity of love to effect a merging between two people who thus became one. Singer analyzes the transition from courtly to Romantic by reference to the writings of many artists beginning with Dante and ending with Richard Wagner, as well as Neoplatonist philosophers of the Italian Renaissance, Descartes, Spinoza, Rousseau, Hume, Kant, Hegel, and Schopenhauer. In relation to romanticism itself, he distinguishes between two aspects—"benign romanticism" and "Romantic pessimism"—that took on renewed importance in the twentieth century.

Author : Moshe Barasch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781135199791

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Theories of Art by Moshe Barasch Pdf

First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Taschen
Page : 860 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 382281699X

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Architectural Theory by Anonim Pdf

This book charls the fascinating history of architectural theory from the Renaissance to the present day. Addressing its subject country by country and featuring over 850 illustrations, it offers a chronological overview of the most important architects and architectural theoreticians from Alberti to Koolhaas. Book jacket.

Author : Chris Philo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781351879583

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Theory and Methods by Chris Philo Pdf

This volume tackles the complex terrain of theory and methods, seeking to exemplify the major philosophical, social-theoretic and methodological developments - some with clear political and ethical implications - that have traversed human geography since the era of the 1960s when spatial science came to the fore. Coverage includes Marxist and humanistic geographies, and their many variations over the years, as well as ongoing debates about agency-structure and the concepts of time, space, place and scale. Feminist and other 'positioned' geographies, alongside poststructuralist and posthumanist geographies, are all evidenced, as well as writings that push against the very 'limits' of what human geography has embraced over these fifty plus years. The volume combines readings that are well-known and widely accepted as 'classic', with readings that, while less familiar, are valuable in how they illustrate different possibilities for theory and method within the discipline. The volume also includes a substantial introduction by the editor, contextualising the readings, and in the process providing a new interpretation of the last half-century of change within the thoughts and practices of human geography.

Author : Stefano Mengozzi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010-02-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521884150

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The Renaissance Reform of Medieval Music Theory by Stefano Mengozzi Pdf

A detailed study of the sight-singing method introduced by the 11th-century monk Guido of Arezzo, in its intellectual context.