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Author : Muriel Spark
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Autographs
ISBN : UVA:X001308618
Because Ticky, the clock, is extremely wise, the professor and his friends vote to bestow upon him the title of Professor. But Ticky declines the honor.
Author : Giorgio Vasari
Publisher : 谷月社
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects Often called "the first art historian", Vasari invented the genre of the encyclopedia of artistic biographies with his Le Vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, ed architettori (Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects), dedicated to Grand Duke Cosimo I de' Medici, which was first published in 1550. He was the first to use the term "Renaissance" (rinascita) in print, though an awareness of the ongoing "rebirth" in the arts had been in the air since the time of Alberti, and he was responsible for our use of the term Gothic Art, though he only used the word Goth which he associated with the "barbaric" German style. The Lives also included a novel treatise on the technical methods employed in the arts. The book was partly rewritten and enlarged in 1568, with the addition of woodcut portraits of artists (some conjectural). The work has a consistent and notorious bias in favour of Florentines, and tends to attribute to them all the developments in Renaissance art — for example, the invention of engraving. Venetian art in particular (along with arts from other parts of Europe), is systematically ignored in the first edition. Between the first and second editions, Vasari visited Venice and while the second edition gave more attention to Venetian art (finally including Titian) it did so without achieving a neutral point of view. Vasari's biographies are interspersed with amusing gossip. Many of his anecdotes have the ring of truth, while others are inventions or generic fictions, such as the tale of young Giotto painting a fly on the surface of a painting by Cimabue that the older master repeatedly tried to brush away, a genre tale that echoes anecdotes told of the Greek painter Apelles. With a few exceptions, however, Vasari's aesthetic judgement was acute and unbiased. He did not research archives for exact dates, as modern art historians do, and naturally his biographies are most dependable for the painters of his own generation and those of the immediate past. Modern criticism – with new materials opened up by research – has corrected many of his traditional dates and attributions. Vasari includes a sketch of his own biography at the end of the Lives, and adds further details about himself and his family in his lives of Lazzaro Vasari and Francesco Salviati. According to the historian Richard Goldthwaite, Vasari was one of the earliest authors to use the term "competition" (or "concorrenza" in Italian) in its economic sense. He used it repeatedly, and stressed the concept in his introduction to the life of Pietro Perugino, in explaining the reasons for Florentine artistic preeminence. In Vasari's view, Florentine artists excelled because they were hungry, and they were hungry because their fierce competition amongst themselves for commissions kept them so. Competition, he said, is "one of the nourishments that maintain them."
Author : Anonymous
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783385460591
Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Bee Culture
ISBN : UCAL:B4243643
Author : Paul N. Hasluck
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-14
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9781528766517
“The Clockjobber's Handybook” is a 1889 work by Australian writer Paul Hasluck that focuses on the care and maintenance of watches and timepieces. With chapters on the various tools, appliances, materials, and processes, this classic guide contains everything one needs to know when repairing, cleaning, or adjusting watches and clocks. Paul Nooncree Hasluck (1854 – 1916) was an Australian writer and editor. He was a master of technical writing and father of the 'do-it-yourself' book, producing many works on subjects including engineering, handicrafts, woodwork, and more. Other notable works by this author include: “Treatise on the Tools Employed in the Art of Turning” (1881), “The Wrath-Jobber's Handy Book” (1887), and “Screw-Threads and Methods of Producing Them” (1887). Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.
Author : Anon
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-12
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781473353886
This antiquarian volume contains an interesting treatise on antique clock dials, hands, and corner pieces from long case and lantern clocks, with information on history, production, fashion, evolution, and much more. Including a great number of original photographs and interesting information on each piece, this is a text that will be of considerable value for the clock enthusiast, and it is not to be missed by discerning collectors of vintage literature of this ilk. The chapters of this text include: Clock Dials; The Development of Clock Dials; Dials, Hands, and Corner Pieces; Spandrel Ornaments; Clock Hands; Clockmaking, and Clock Hands. Many older works such as this are increasingly hard-to-come-by and expensive, and it is with this in mind that this work is being republished now, in an affordable modern edition complete with a new introduction on the history of clocks and watches.
Author : Susan Bracken
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443857635
Churches and palaces in Florence have been the subject matter of book-length, often multi-volume studies over the centuries. This book is a compendium of the main churches in Florence and has been written with two distinct audiences in mind: English-speaking students of Renaissance art, architecture, literature and history and the well-read traveller to Florence who wishes to place the works of art and architecture into the wider context of Italian culture. The choice of churches discussed here was influenced by the author’s experience as teacher for several university programmes on site in Florence. The buildings described and analysed are those which students will most likely encounter in the course of their study-abroad stay in Florence, whether they wish to specialise in art, architecture or the history of the Florentine Renaissance. This book represents a textbook that offers concise information on the history, art, and architecture of 25 of the main Florentine churches, provides plans and photos of the façades, and introduces the student to some of the most important vocabulary and the main textual sources of the thirteenth to the seventeenth centuries.
Author : Bence Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Electronic
ISBN : KBNL:KBNL03000110223
Author : Henry Bence Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11001176
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1024 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Art
ISBN : PRNC:32101076203502
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 856 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Gardening
ISBN : PSU:000057728476
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1847
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IBNN:BNVA001712675
Author : Thomas Hodkin
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-20
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781326252496
A comprehensive book on collecting & repairing antique clocks or timepieces written for both the amateur or experienced in mind. How to tell what's wrong, What tools to use, where to get parts and how to fit them, using hundreds of photographs and diagrams making repairs within most peoples reach, a separate section deals with sympathetic restoration of the case. The Trademarks section includes thousands of clockmakers marks from all around the world, usually stamped on the movement itself enabling the reader to accurately not only identify the maker but date and value the clock.
Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 898 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555101405
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 972 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1837
Category : Arts
ISBN : IND:30000153384544
