American Painting

American Painting
Author: Francesca Castria Marchetti
Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2003
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Spanning ten periods, this remarkable history features the work of nearly eighty legendary American artists. Annotation. Editor Marchetti is joined by two other art historians, Roberta Bernabei and Stefano Ruzzi, in presenting 400 landmark American paintings. Seventy-seven painters are represented, each with several thoroughly captioned paintings (full- or half-page) and biographical and interpretive text. Arrangement is chronological, beginning with the Anglo-Saxon tradition and continuing with the discovery of the West, the taste for reality, and American impressionists, through abstract expressionism and pop art and graffiti. Each era is briefly overviewed. The book was originally published in Italian.

The Cosmati

The Cosmati
Author: Edward Hutton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 152
Release: 1950
Genre: Church decoration and ornament
ISBN:

Leonardo, Architect

Leonardo, Architect
Author: Carlo Pedretti
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
Total Pages: 366
Release: 1985
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

The monumental Mole Vanvitelliana in the harbor of the Adriatic City of Ancona is the spectacular setting for a most original Leonardo exhibition. For the first time Leonardo's presence at Urbino and Pesaro as an architect and general engineer in the service of Cesare Borgia in 1502 is presented in a historical and cultural context that includes every aspect of Leonardos art, science and technology, and also his philosophical outlook. The rarely seen materials, presented here in a fully illustrated catalogue, are also discussed in detail by seven scholars of international repute coordinated by the editor.

Venice and the Renaissance

Venice and the Renaissance
Author: Manfredo Tafuri
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 436
Release: 1995-03-27
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780262700542

Pursuing the intersections of Venetian culture from the beginning of the sixteenth century through the first decades of the seventeenth, Manfredo Tafuri develops a story crowded with characters and full of surprises. He engages the doges Andrea Gritti and Leonardo Dona; architects and artists Sansovino, Serlio, Palladio, and Scamozzi; and scientists Francesco Barozzi and Galileo. He records the battle that was fought for architecture as metaphor for absolute truth and good government, and contrasts these with the myths that inspired them.

Michelangelo

Michelangelo
Author: Angelo Tartuferi
Publisher:
Total Pages: 80
Release: 1988
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 9788886542098

Rome in the Eighth Century

Rome in the Eighth Century
Author: John Osborne
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2020-07-09
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1108834582

A history of Rome in the critical eighth century CE focusing on the evidence of material culture and archaeology.

L'ultimo Michelangelo

L'ultimo Michelangelo
Author: Antonio Forcellino
Publisher: Gius.Laterza & Figli Spa
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2024-04-05T00:00:00+02:00
Genre: Art
ISBN: 8858155238

Rare volte accade che un restauratore esperto, conoscitore estremo dei segreti di un artista di genio, riesca a ribaltare la tradizione degli studi critici, dimostrandone la fallacia e i pregiudizi sulla base di riscontri materiali inoppugnabili e documenti d'archivio dissepolti dopo secoli d'oblio. È successo all'architetto Antonio Forcellino, principe dei restauratori italiani. Marina Valensise, "Il Messaggero" In queste pagine, la ricostruzione dello scenario storico nel quale opera Michelangelo dopo il Giudizio Universale si accosta all'analisi minuziosa della sua produzione, così da permettere al lettore di entrare profondamente nell'opera del genio, comprendere appieno le sue emozioni e ancora più chiaramente, per le dettagliatissime indagini tecniche condotte dall'autore durante i suoi restauri, il suo prodigioso talento manuale. Dal Giudizio Universale al Mosè di San Pietro in Vincoli, dalla Cappella Paolina ai piccoli dipinti per Vittoria Colonna, la storia avvincente dell'ultima stagione creativa del genio del Rinascimento, tra profonde inquietudini religiose e nuove forme espressive.