Cervantes and the Humanist Vision

Cervantes and the Humanist Vision
Author: Alban K. Forcione
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 424
Release: 2017-03-14
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1400886058

This book sets the Novelas ejemplares in the mainstream of Christian Humanism and shows that their narrative forms manifest the breadth of the Christian Humanist vision as much as does the more overtly revolutionary Don Quixote. Originally published in 1983. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

The Baker Who Pretended to Be King of Portugal

The Baker Who Pretended to Be King of Portugal
Author: Ruth MacKay
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2012-05-21
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0226501086

The author explores the conspiracy of Gabriel de Espinosa who attempted to pass himself off as the deceased King Sebastian of Portugal sixteen years after his death. Through this the author explores how stories - regarding such topics as prophecies of returned leaders, nuns kept against their will, kidnappings by Moors, etc. - are conceived, told, circulated, and believed.

What Great Paintings Say

What Great Paintings Say
Author: Rose-Marie Hagen
Publisher: Taschen
Total Pages: 514
Release: 2003
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9783822821008

These are the kinds of question Rose-Marie and Rainer Hagen ask when faced with world-famous masterpieces. In the language of today they comment on the fashions and attitudes, trends and intrigues, love, vice and lifestyles of past times. Book jacket.

Jan van Noordt

Jan van Noordt
Author: David de Witt
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2007-11-02
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0773575642

De Witt offers a detailed biography based on a thorough review of the documentary evidence. He traces Van Noordt's origins back to a prominent musical family, details his artistic development under the guidance of prominent Amsterdam painter Jacob Adriaensz Backer, and reveals his synthesis of the styles of the two dominant Netherlandish artists, Rubens and Rembrandt. Using a systematic analysis of technique, manner, and approach to form, de Witt proves that over half the paintings and drawings presently attributed to Van Noordt are not his work - virtually recasting the accomplishments of an artist whose vibrant, often daring works challenge our concept of seventeenth-century Dutch art.