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Death in Florence: the Medici, Savonarola and the Battle for the Soul of the Renaissance City by Strathern Paul
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-10-31 | Author:Strathern, Paul [Strathern, Paul]

15 The Voices of Florence DESPITE THE EVIDENT popularity of Savonarola’s sermons, along with widespread satisfaction that Medici rule had been replaced by a more republican government, Florence was now ...
( Category: Italy August 25,2015 )
The Traveling Artist in the Italian Renaissance by David Young Kim
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-08-24 | Author:David Young Kim

LORENZO LOTTO: ABOLITIO MEMORIAE Sebastiano is tarred and feathered for his mobility and ensuing masquerade of disegno. By contrast, an itinerant artist such as Lorenzo Lotto largely meets indifference, though ...
( Category: History August 25,2015 )
American Mirror by Deborah Solomon
epub |eng | | Author:Deborah Solomon

Christmas Homecoming, the defining image of holiday togetherness, appeared on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post on December 25, 1948. Grandma Moses had her heartbreaks, too. In February, just ...
( Category: Criticism August 20,2015 )
Works of Vincent van Gogh (Masters of Art) by VINCENT VAN GOGH
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-03-03 | Author:VINCENT VAN GOGH [VAN GOGH, VINCENT]

( Category: Artists, Architects & Photographers August 19,2015 )
The Miracle of Analogy by Kaja Silverman
epub |eng | 2015-08-18 | Author:Kaja Silverman [Silverman, Kaja]

Colorplate 1/Figure 20. Abelardo Morell, Camera Obscura: The Philadelphia Museum of Art East Entrance in Gallery #171 with a de Chirico Painting, 2005. Inkjet print. Image © Abelardo Morell, courtesy ...
( Category: History August 19,2015 )
M: the Caravaggio enigma by Peter Robb
epub |eng | 1998-08-31 | Author:Peter Robb [Robb, Peter]

ADOLESCENT JOHN WAS the ascetic and solitary precursor of Christ. He was the boy who spoke with the voice of one crying in the wilderness. The figure of John as ...
( Category: Artists, Architects & Photographers July 19,2015 )
Medieval Church Architecture by Jon Cannon
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Jon Cannon

Positioned beneath steep, crocketed gables, these nodding ogees on the outer north porch at St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol (probably c. 1320), give the surface of the structure a swaying, rippling, ...
( Category: Religious Buildings June 17,2015 )
The Lost Battles by Jonathan Jones
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-10-23 | Author:Jonathan Jones [Jones, Jonathan]

This image of sacrifice as a bloody visual spectacle that rouses violent passions in the spectator is powerfully suggestive about the purpose of showing the citizens of Florence, assembled in ...
( Category: History June 13,2015 )
Forbidden Asia (Mega Square) by Döpp Hans-Jürgen
azw3 |eng | 2014-01-06 | Author:Döpp, Hans-Jürgen [Döpp, Hans-Jürgen]

Style of Suzuki Harunobu, 1769-1770 Colour woodblock print, 18.7 x 24.8 cm if only because of the amazing pleasure to be had from their drawing, the impetuosity, the natural power ...
( Category: Erotica June 13,2015 )
Factory Made: Warhol and the Sixties by Steven Watson
epub |eng | 2014-02-25 | Author:Steven Watson [Watson, Steven]

The third-anniversary issue of Fuck You: A Magazine of the Arts featured on its cover a still from Couch. A third of the way into the magazine appeared a piece ...
( Category: United States June 13,2015 )
Modeling Life by Sarah R. Phillips
epub |eng | 2006-01-02 | Author:Sarah R. Phillips [Phillips, Sarah R.]

This page intentionally left blank. SIX “Denise” DENISE ARRIVED FOR our first interview dressed like any other Portland woman in her early twenties: jeans, a t-shirt, and a fleece jacket. ...
( Category: Pragmatism June 13,2015 )
In Montmartre: Picasso, Matisse and the Birth of Modernist Art by Sue Roe
epub |eng | 2014-07-30 | Author:Sue Roe [Roe, Sue]

3. Motion Pictures In Paris, by autumn 1907 everyone was going to the movies. During the previous six or seven years, technological advances had been rapid. Cinema audiences could now ...
( Category: History June 12,2015 )
Jackson Pollock by Deborah Solomon
epub |eng | 2001-06-10 | Author:Deborah Solomon

In the year that had passed since Pollock had completed his mural hardly anyone had seen it, for the simple reason that it was hanging in his patron’s apartment. But ...
( Category: Criticism June 11,2015 )
The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss by de Waal Edmund
mobi |eng | 2010-08-30 | Author:de Waal, Edmund

20. HEIL WIEN! HEIL BERLIN! The century is fourteen years old, and so is Elisabeth, a serious young girl who is allowed to sit at dinner with the grown-ups. These ...
( Category: Jewish June 11,2015 )
Mark Rothko by Annie Cohen-Solal
epub |eng | 2015-06-08 | Author:Annie Cohen-Solal

10 From a Luxury Skyscraper to a Medieval Chapel—The First Anchoring in Britain: 1958–1960 Rothko really loved England, and his affection for us and our foibles was so candid and ...
( Category: Artists, Architects & Photographers June 9,2015 )

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