Search results for ""Author Alessandro Nova""
Wagenbach Klaus GmbH Kunstgeschichte und Kunsttheorie Eine Einfhrung in die Lebensbeschreibung berhmter Knstler
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De Gruyter Skulptur und Platz: Raumbesetzung, Raumüberwindung, Interaktion
Public places provide the stage for the social life of a city, and this is why they have always been the preferred site for the display of sculptural works. Reaching beyond artistic claims and in concert with the surrounding architecture, they mark social, political, legal, and ritual spaces. Like chess pieces, they are placed, realized, and replaced strategically, some slipping from their assigned role and taking on transformed meaning under new rulers. The 14 contributions of this anthology shine a light on the spatial interplay of sculpture and urban environments from the Early Modern Age to the present.
£41.50
Officina Libraria The Network of Cassinese Arts in Renaissance Italy
From the late 15th to the mid-16th century, an impressive corpus of architecture, sculpture, and painting was created to embellish monastic sites affiliated with the Benedictine Cassinese Congregation of Italy. A religious order of humanistically trained monks, the Cassinese engaged with the most eminent artists and architects of the early modern period, supporting the production of imagery and architecture that was often highly experimental in nature: from Raphael's Sistine Madonna in Piacenza to Andrea Riccio's Moses/Zeus Ammon, from Andrea Palladio's church of San Giorgio Maggiore (Venice) to the superbly crafted choirstalls of San Severino and Sossio (Naples). Applying a network framework to the congregation's infrastructure of monasteries makes clear that the circulation of sophisticated Renaissance art and architecture constituted only a segment of the monks' investment in the arts. Monks also served as custodians of an antique monumental heritage and popular votive images, assuring the survival of ancient buildings and artifacts of limited aesthetic value that supplied opportunities for early modern masters to confront an array of artworks for the reinvention of reformed Christian art and architecture. Text in English, Italian and German.
£31.50
De Gruyter Platz und Territorium: Urbane Struktur gestaltet politische Räume
Platzanlagen sind gestaltete Elemente von Städten, die ganz wesentlich deren Erscheinungsbild prägen. Sie schaffen Raum für soziale Interaktion und entziehen sich der hohen Bebauungsdichte. In der westlichen Stadtkultur haben sie durch ihre besondere Ausprägung die Vorstellung vom öffentlichen Raum geformt. In ihrer architektonischen und monumentalen Ausgestaltung greifen Plätze aber nicht nur in die Stadt ein, sondern auch in Räume des Umlands oder übergeordneter politischer Einheiten. Plätze schaffen Verbindungen zwischen Territorien, sind aber auch selbst vielfach inhaltlich besetzt und durch räumliche Ansprüche ihrer Bauherren strukturiert. Die Anthologie versammelt elf Beiträge zu europäischen Platzanlagen von der Antike bis ins 20. Jahrhundert, die auf unterschiedliche Weise von Territorialität gekennzeichnet sind. Die Fachgeschichte der raumbezogenen kunstgeschichtlichen Platzforschung wird hierbei grundsätzlich reflektiert.
£36.50
De Gruyter The Announcement: Annunciations and Beyond
The Annunciation: a specific event recounted in the Bible and often represented in artworks, but also the prototype of many other announcements throughout the history of Western culture. This volume proposes new readings of pictorial Annunciations from the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period – treating aspects such as witnesses, inscriptions and architecture – as well as analyses of some visual echoes, reenactments of the announcement to Mary in sacred and profane contexts up to the twenty-first century. Among the latter are included Venetian decoration glorifying the state, a Jean-Luc Godard film, a video art piece by Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Lars von Trier’s Melancholia and a saint’s bedroom turned into a pilgrimage site.
£69.50
