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As he entered his seventies, the great Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo despaired that his productive years were past. Anguished by the death of friends and discouraged by the loss of commissions to younger artists, this supreme painter and sculptor began carving his own tomb. It was at this unlikely moment that fate intervened to task Michelangelo with the most ambitious and daunting project of his long creative life. 'Michelangelo, God's...
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With this book, author Paul Reilly had two ends in view. The first is to introduce the ever fewer examples of Regency buildings while they still exist. The second is to explain the historical role of Regency architecture, to show in what way it was a true descendant of the 18th century and in what way it broke new ground.
3) Michelangelo
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Michelangelo, like Leonardo, was a man of many talents; sculptor, architect, painter and poet, he made the apotheosis of muscular movement, which to him was the physical manifestation of passion. He moulded his draughtsmanship, bent it, twisted it, and stretched it to the extreme limits of possibility. There are not any landscapes in Michelangelo's painting. All the emotions, all the passions, all the thoughts of humanity were personified in his eyes...
5) Super Focus
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This book tells my 17-years of experience with Blender and the peaks and valleys I experienced, during my development as a landscape designer. How my love for medieval buildings snuck in at a young age and it has never left me.
One of the most frequently asked questions I get is how to get my inspiration and the motivation to shape the big 3D scenes. Over the past five years, I've tried to impart the craft to over 70,000 students, but never have I...
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Crear un espacio de debate, reflexión colaborativa y difusión del conocimiento en el ámbito de la educación escolar, como una forma de enfrentar los desafíos producidos por la realidad cultural y social en transformación acelerada en las últimas décadas, es la propuesta contenida en el libro que tenemos entre las manos, Educación Histórica para el siglo XXI: principios epistemológicos y metodológicos. Los lectores al recorrer los capítulos,...
7) Michel-Ange
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Michel-Ange (Michelangelo Buonarroti) (Caprese, 1475 - Rome, 1564)
Michel-Ange, comme Léonard de Vinci, avait plusieurs cordes à son arc et était à la fois sculpteur, architecte, peintre et poète. Il porta à leur apothéose le mouvement musculaire et l'effort, équivalents plastiques de la passion, à ses yeux. Il façonna son dessin, le poussant jusqu'aux limites extrêmes des possibilités de son âme tourmentée. Il n'y a aucun paysage dans...
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Building the Italian Renaissance focuses on the competition to select a team to execute the final architectural challenge of the cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore--the erection of its dome. Although the model for the dome was widely known, the question of how this was to be accomplished was the great challenge of the age. This dome would be the largest ever built. This is foremost a technical challenge but it is also a philosophical one. The project...
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The incredible affluence and extravagance of Euclid Avenue's Millionaires' Row have fascinated Clevelanders for more than a century. Within these stately mansions, US presidents enjoyed dinners and discussions with powerful politicians and influential industrial and banking leaders. Through photographs and meticulously researched captions, Cleveland's Millionaires' Row provides authoritative visual and written answers to the most often-asked questions...
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"The remarkable story of the two seventeenth-century geniuses. . . . A highly successful double biography." —Booklist
The rivalry between the brilliant seventeenth-century Italian architects Gianlorenzo Bernini and Francesco Borromini is the stuff of legend. Enormously talented and ambitious artists, they met as contemporaries in the building yards of St. Peter's in Rome, became the greatest architects of their era by designing...
The rivalry between the brilliant seventeenth-century Italian architects Gianlorenzo Bernini and Francesco Borromini is the stuff of legend. Enormously talented and ambitious artists, they met as contemporaries in the building yards of St. Peter's in Rome, became the greatest architects of their era by designing...
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Dans les années 1980, les technocrates de Margaret Thatcher ont habillé du joli nom de « gouvernance » le projet d'adapter l'État aux intérêts et à la culture de l'entreprise privée. Ce coup d'État conceptuel va travestir avec succès la sauvagerie néolibérale en modèle de « saine gestion ». Nous en ferons collectivement les frais : dérèglementation de l'économie, privatisation des services publics, clientélisation du...
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The Renaissance era's aesthetic standards and design tenets are explained in The Guide to Renaissance Interior Style. Modern interior design is still influenced by this era, which is renowned for its creative and cultural splendor. The guide examines crucial components that characterize the Renaissance style, including architectural influences, lavish materials, and intricate craftsmanship.
It explores how sculptures and statues are used as focal...
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A new and 50% enlarged, entertaining, but fundamentally serious selection of the most rewarding places to visit the most visited and beloved country in the world. Places described have gone from 101 to 150 in this edition. Sicily, Calabria and Apulia are the subjects of greater focus. Towns (additions include Bergamo, Pesaro, Cremona and Todi), villages, museums and individual monuments are discussed, characterised and described. A guide book in its...
16) Miguel Ángel
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Miguel Ángel, al igual que Leonardo, fue un hombre de muchos talentos: escultor, arquitecto, pintor y poeta; logró expresar la apoteosis del movimiento muscular, que para él era la manifestación física de la pasión. Llevó el arte del dibujo a los límites extremos de sus posibilidades, estirándolo, moldeándolo y hasta retorciéndolo. En las pinturas de Miguel Ángel no hay paisajes de ningún tipo. Todas las emociones, todas las pasiones,...
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The most important northern Italian artist of the early Renaissance, Andrea Mantegna was a student of Roman archaeology and the son-in-law of Jacopo Bellini. A pioneering master of perspective, Mantegna used pictorial devices such as extreme foreshortening, lowering the horizon to create greater monumentality and rendering his figures as more rounded and modelled, with Donatellian naturalism. His masterpieces are renowned for their minute attention...
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The fascinating study "Renaissance Period Culture: An Introduction to Renaissance Culture Features and Characteristics" explores one of the most revolutionary periods in human history. This enlightening book explores the fascinating aspects and distinguishing traits of this cultural uprising as it takes readers on a journey through the colorful tapestry of the Renaissance era, which stretched from the 14th to the 17th century. The book reveals the...
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Giordano Bruno challenged everything in his pursuit of an all-embracing system of thought. This not only brought him patronage from powerful figures of the day but also put him in direct conflict with the Catholic Church. Arrested by the Inquisition and tried as a heretic, Bruno was imprisoned, tortured, and, after eight years, burned at the stake in 1600. The Vatican "regrets" the burning yet refuses to clear him of heresy.
But Bruno's philosophy...
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Jan van Eyck was a fifteenth century Netherlandish painter of altarpieces, single-panel religious figures and commissioned portraits, who perfected the newly developed technique of oil painting. Panel paintings like the 'Arnolfini Portrait' and 'The Ghent Altarpiece' are celebrated for their unprecedented use of naturalism, complex iconography and geometric perspective. Although only 22 paintings are confidently attributed to Van Eyck, his virtuosity...
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