Titian Remade

Titian Remade
Author: Maria H. Loh
Publisher: Getty Publications
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2007
Genre: Imitation in art
ISBN: 9780892368730

This insightful volumes the use of imitation and the modern cult of originality through a consideration of the disparate fates of two Venetian painters - the canonised master Titian and his artistic heir, the little-known Padovanino.

Renovatio Urbis

Renovatio Urbis
Author: Nicholas Temple
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2011-04-25
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1136736484

Examining the urban and architectural developments in Rome during the Pontificate of Julius II (1503–13) this book focuses on the political, religious and artistic motives behind the principal architect, Donato Bramante, and his ambition to create a unified urban/architectural scheme.

The Reach of the Republic of Letters

The Reach of the Republic of Letters
Author: Arjan Van Dixhoorn
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 543
Release: 2008-09-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9004169555

This volume questions the present-day assumption holding the Italian academies to be the model for the European literary and learned society, by juxtaposing them to other types of contemporary literary and learned associations in several Western European countries.

Melchiorre Cafà

Melchiorre Cafà
Author: Alessandra Anselmi
Publisher: Midsea Books
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2006
Genre: Art
ISBN:

This publication is the first truly collective attempt to study the work of Melchiorre Cafa'. In a variety of studies, it discusses specific and synoptic issues related to his oeuvre. The book also presents a check-list of works by (or attributed to) the artist; this check-list aims at establishing a critical repertory of his oeuvre.

Poetry from the Kings' Sagas 1

Poetry from the Kings' Sagas 1
Author: Diana Whaley
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Old Norse poetry
ISBN: 9782503518961

Volumes 1 and 2 in the SKALD series present the large and important body of skaldic poetry preserved in sagas about the kings of Norway and other Scandinavian rulers. Vol. 1 is dedicated mainly to court poetry in praise of rulers from the legendary Yngling kings to Olafr Haraldsson (St. Olav) and Knutr Sveinsson (Cnut the Great). Alongside formal commemoration of raids and battles there are dialogues with valkyries, lively travelogue, accounts of miracles, and freestanding stanzas capturing frustrated love and moments of humour. This volume also contains the General Introduction to the series.