The Renaissance Restored

Author : Matthew Hayes
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781606067222

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The Renaissance Restored by Matthew Hayes Pdf

This handsomely illustrated volume traces the intersections of art history and paintings restoration in nineteenth-century Europe. Repairing works of art and writing about them—the practices that became art conservation and art history—share a common ancestry. By the nineteenth century the two fields had become inseparably linked. While the art historical scholarship of this period has been widely studied, its restoration practices have received less scrutiny—until now. This book charts the intersections between art history and conservation in the treatment of Italian Renaissance paintings in nineteenth-century Europe. Initial chapters discuss the restoration of works by Giotto and Titian, framed by the contemporary scholarship of art historians such as Jacob Burckhardt, G. B. Cavalcaselle, and Joseph Crowe that was redefining the earlier age. Subsequent chapters recount how paintings conservation was integrated into museum settings. The narrative uses period texts, unpublished archival materials, and historical photographs in probing how paintings looked at a time when scholars were writing the foundational texts of art history, and how contemporary restorers were negotiating the appearances of these works. The book proposes a model for a new conservation history, object focused yet enriched by consideration of a wider cultural horizon.

Author : Alfred Lestie Rowe
Publisher : Springer
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1975-06-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349026234

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Discoveries and Reviews by Alfred Lestie Rowe Pdf

Author : Susanna de Beer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198878902

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The Renaissance Battle for Rome by Susanna de Beer Pdf

The Renaissance Battle for Rome examines the rhetorical battle fought simultaneously between a wide variety of parties (individuals, groups, authorities) seeking prestige or legitimacy through the legacy of ancient Romeâe"a battle over the question of whose claims to this legacy were most legitimate. Distinguishing four domainsâe"power, morality, cityscape and literatureâe"in which ancient Rome represented a particularly powerful example, this book traces the contours of this rhetorical battle across Renaissance Europe, based on a broad selection of Humanist Latin Poetry. It shows how humanist poets negotiated different claims on behalf of others and themselves in their work, acting both as "spin doctors" and "new Romans", while also undermining competing claims to this same idealized past. By so doing this book not only offers a new understanding of several aspects of the Renaissance that are usually considered separately, but ultimately allows us to understand Renaissance culture as a constant negotiation between appropriating and contesting the idea and ideal of "Rome."

Author : Gary M. Radke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Bronze sculpture, Italian
ISBN : UOM:39015058080329

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Verrocchio's David Restored by Gary M. Radke Pdf

Author : Alastair Muir
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798578423789

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Hope Restored in Florence by Alastair Muir Pdf

It is the opportunity of a lifetime, all she has ever dreamed of, the chance for Lucrezia Sims to study art restoration at the Palazzo Moretti in Florence, the cradle of the Renaissance. But even before she gets there, her life is devastated by the sudden separation of her parents. And once she arrives in Florence, she soon becomes the suspect in a violent crime, and betrayed by the one woman she had come to trust, whilst at the same time believing herself to be the victim of an odious assault. Her father, Jeffrey, who flies to be by her side, is himself soon a murder suspect as the full extent of the criminal network headed by Tommaso Rialo becomes shockingly clear.Jeffery must find a new sense of purpose as he works alongside ex-intelligence officer Marco di Luca, frustrated by a population in thrall to the criminal magnate and ignored by a police officer too scared or too corrupt to act against him. Together, they pull apart the threads of a sophisticated network of forgery and money laundering, risking their very lives to uncover the truth.Alongside this dark mystery, we are shown some of the lesser known beauties that Florence possesses, celebrating its women artists, those involved in the conservation and restoration of its many treasures and the Mannerist artists, who advanced art beyond the epoch of the High Renaissance.And we celebrate the life of Eleanora di Toledo, wife of Cosimo the First, Grand Duke of Tuscany. Their life long fidelity was unusual for their time, as was Eleanora's determination to emerge from the shadow of her husband and be recognised in her own right. Her story has echoes of that of Lucrezia, as past and present mirror each other.

Author : Alfred Leslie Rowse
Publisher : London : Macmillan
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : English literature
ISBN : 0333183924

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Discoveries and Reviews from Renaissance to Restoration by Alfred Leslie Rowse Pdf

Author : Henri de Riedmatten,Fabio Gaffo,Mathilde Jaccard
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-24
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9783111072739

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Restoration as Fabrication of Origins by Henri de Riedmatten,Fabio Gaffo,Mathilde Jaccard Pdf

The aim of this publication is to clarify the relationships between material restoration and politics in Italian Renaissance art. The focus of this research is on the question of origin as a foothold for political, patrimonial, and cultural identity. These claims were enacted within a system which, rather than restoring the initial forms and meanings of existing objects, remodeled the past according to new identity requirements: spaces were reorganized, and works of art invested with new meanings. Their material and aesthetic reality was thus transformed and redefined. The aim is therefore to analyze the potential physical modifications of these artefacts in light of their symbolic recoding. Restoration practices in Italian Renaissance art Reassessing the concept of Renaissance Recording of ancient works for political purposes

Author : Clare McManus
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2005-03-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199265572

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Reconceiving the Renaissance by Clare McManus Pdf

The last two decades have transformed the field of Renaissance studies, and Reconceiving the Renaissance: A Critical Reader maps this difficult terrain. Attending to the breadth of fresh approaches, the volume offers a theoretical overview of current thinking about the period.Collecting in one volume the classic and cutting-edge statements which define early modern scholarship as it is now practised, this book is a one-stop indispensable resource for undergraduates and beginning postgraduates alike. Through a rich array of arguments by the world's leading experts, the Renaissance emerges wonderfully invigorated, while the suggestive shorter extracts, topical questions and engaged editorial introductions give students the wherewithal and encouragement to do somereconceiving themselves.

Author : John Addington Symonds
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Art, Italian
ISBN : STANFORD:36105118198857

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Italian literature (2 vols.) by John Addington Symonds Pdf

Author : Alexander Nagel,Christopher S. Wood
Publisher : Zone Books
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781942130345

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Anachronic Renaissance by Alexander Nagel,Christopher S. Wood Pdf

A reconsideration of the problem of time in the Renaissance, examining the complex and layered temporalities of Renaissance images and artifacts. In this widely anticipated book, two leading contemporary art historians offer a subtle and profound reconsideration of the problem of time in the Renaissance. Alexander Nagel and Christopher Wood examine the meanings, uses, and effects of chronologies, models of temporality, and notions of originality and repetition in Renaissance images and artifacts. Anachronic Renaissance reveals a web of paths traveled by works and artists—a landscape obscured by art history's disciplinary compulsion to anchor its data securely in time. The buildings, paintings, drawings, prints, sculptures, and medals discussed were shaped by concerns about authenticity, about reference to prestigious origins and precedents, and about the implications of transposition from one medium to another. Byzantine icons taken to be Early Christian antiquities, the acheiropoieton (or “image made without hands”), the activities of spoliation and citation, differing approaches to art restoration, legends about movable buildings, and forgeries and pastiches: all of these emerge as basic conceptual structures of Renaissance art. Although a work of art does bear witness to the moment of its fabrication, Nagel and Wood argue that it is equally important to understand its temporal instability: how it points away from that moment, backward to a remote ancestral origin, to a prior artifact or image, even to an origin outside of time, in divinity. This book is not the story about the Renaissance, nor is it just a story. It imagines the infrastructure of many possible stories.

Author : D. Medina Lasansky
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : 027102366X

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The Renaissance Perfected by D. Medina Lasansky Pdf

Mussolini&’s bold claims upon the monuments and rhetoric of ancient Rome have been the subject of a number of recent books. D. Medina Lasansky shows us a much less familiar side of the cultural politics of Italian Fascism, tracing its wide-ranging efforts to adapt the nation&’s medieval and Renaissance heritage to satisfy the regime&’s programs of national regeneration. Anyone acquainted with the beauties of Tuscany will be surprised to learn that architects, planners, and administrators working within Fascist programs fabricated much of what today&’s tourists admire as authentic. Public squares, town halls, palaces, gardens, and civic rituals (including the famed Palio of Siena) were all &“restored&” to suit a vision of the past shaped by Fascist notions of virile power, social order, and national achievement in the arts. Ultimately, Lasansky forces readers to question long-standing assumptions about the Renaissance even as she expands the parameters of what constitutes Fascist culture. The arguments in The Renaissance Perfected are based in fresh archival evidence and a rich collection of illustrations, many reproduced for the first time, ranging from photographs and architectural drawings to tourist posters and film stills. Lasansky&’s groundbreaking book will be essential reading for students of medieval, Renaissance, and twentieth-century Italy as well as all those concerned with visual culture, architectural preservation, heritage studies, and tourism studies.

Author : John Addington Symonds
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Italy
ISBN : UCR:31210010822649

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Renaissance in Italy by John Addington Symonds Pdf

Author : Diana Solomon
Publisher : University of Delaware
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611494235

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Prologues and Epilogues of Restoration Theater by Diana Solomon Pdf

This book provides a taxonomy of prologues and epilogues with a corresponding appendix, and demonstrates through case studies of Anne Bracegirdle and Anne Oldfield how the study of prologues and epilogues enriches Restoration theater scholarship.

Author : Marina Belozerskaya
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 54,7 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 : Xavier F. Salomon,Claudia Vittori,Maichol Clemente
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Painting, Renaissance
ISBN : 0912114703

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Veronese in Murano by Xavier F. Salomon,Claudia Vittori,Maichol Clemente Pdf

The Frick Collection will present Veronese in Murano: Two Venetian Renaissance Masterpieces Restored, a focused exhibition, organized by Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator Xavier F. Salomon, on two recently conserved and rarely seen paintings by the celebrated artist Paolo Veronese (1528-1588), Saint Jerome in the Wilderness and Saint Peter Visiting Saint Agatha in Prison. While the paintings are known to scholars, their remote location in a church in Murano, an island in the lagoon of Venice, has made them difficult to study. The exhibition will provide a unique opportunity for an international audience to discover these two masterpieces in New York.