Through most of Michelangelo’s working life, one of his closest colleagues was the great Venetian painter Sebastiano del Piombo (1485–1541). The two men met in Rome in 1511, shortly after Sebastiano’s arrival from his native city, and while Michelangelo was based in Florence...
Lingua : Inglese
Copertina rigida : 536 pagine
ISBN / Barcode: 9781857093391
This new volume in the series of National Gallery collection catalogues focuses on 16th-century Bologna and Ferrara. The Gallery holds the most important collection of these paintings outside Italy, including works by Garofalo representing his entire range as an artist; exquisite and grotesque...
Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: CB Edizioni
Language English
ISBN / Barcode: 9788895686011
This volume collects a series of complex and variously articulated themes, that involve on a theoretical and historical basis both the world of architecture and urban planning, as well as that of sculpture and of painting. The period analyzed here is certainly the most operational for Leonardo,...
What makes one person revere High Renaissance art but dislike the work of the impressionists? How can the work of Picasso be compared to that of Boticelli? The appreciation of art is so highly personal and subjective that it defies analysis and is as much a mystery as what actually inspires someone...
Hardcover : 240 pages
Product Dimensions : 18.03 x 2.03 x 18.03 cm
Language: : English
ISBN / Barcode: 9783955886714
Born in Venice, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo rose to become one of the most important artists of the 18th century. He found great clients not only in Italy, but also in Wurzburg. His frescoes in the Wurzburg Residenz, which congenially integrate the architecture and have lost none of their radiance to...
Art and the Religious Image in El Greco’s Italy is the first book-length examination of the early career of one of the early modern period’s most notoriously misunderstood figures. Born around 1541, Domenikos Theotokopoulos began his career as an icon painter on the island of Crete. He...
