Bravura: Virtuosity and Ambition in Early Modern European Painting 0691204586, 9780691204581

Bravura: Virtuosity and Ambition in Early Modern European Painting 9780691213439

The first major history of the bravura movement in European painting The painterly style known as bravura emerged in si

104 63 181MB Read more

Space and Self in Early Modern European Cultures 9781442698215

Space and Self thus sets the terms for current discussion of these topics and provides new approaches to studying their

142 54 1MB Read more

Imperial Ambition in the Early Modern Mediterranean: Genoese Merchants and the Spanish Crown 1107062365, 9781107062368

This book examines the alliance between the Spanish Crown and Genoese merchant bankers in southern Italy throughout the

462 110 2MB Read more

Skies in early Mughal painting

474 121 32MB Read more

Creating Place in Early Modern European Architecture 9789048550814

An inquiry on place-making and architectural production in early modern Europe (1400-1750)

117 49 8MB Read more

The Image of the City in Early Netherlandish Painting 1400-1550: Representations of Urbanity in Early Netherlandish Painting (Studies in European Urban History (1100-1800)) 9782503579825, 2503579825

Painted cityscapes have always captivated the viewers of medieval works of art. To this day scholars are mesmerised by t

172 89 6MB Read more

Staging Doubt: Skepticism in Early Modern European Drama 9783110660586, 9783110660555

This volume considers the influential revival of ancient philosophical skepticism in the 16th and early 17th centuries a

154 37 2MB Read more

Staging Doubt: Skepticism in Early Modern European Drama 9783110660586, 9783110660555

This volume considers the influential revival of ancient philosophical skepticism in the 16th and early 17th centuries a

180 105 2MB Read more

Redefining Eclecticism in Early Modern Bolognese Painting: Ideology, Practice, and Criticism 9789048537259

This book regards the ideology, practice, and critcism in relation to the usage of unassimilated eclecticism -the use of

143 47 3MB Read more

The Scandal of Images: Iconoclasm, Eroticism, and Painting in Early Modern English Drama 1575910853, 2004017599, 9781575910857

In Elizabethan England, dramatists and painters were both achieving the greatest degree of artistic excellence yet witne

110 64 16MB Read more