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A rich assortment of Baroque imagery to use . . . and admire Meticulously reproduced from a valuable portfolio by a notable nineteenth-century French artist, 124 black-and-white illustrations capture the lavish devices and grand sweep of Louis IV-era Baroque design. A gorgeous population of elaborate architectural ornaments, decorative motifs, and border elements, this collection of royalty-free art will inspire ideas for - and immediately embellish...
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Engraved in the 19th century, these flamboyant ornamental designs are based on a wide variety of historical examples, dating back as far as the 1500s and including images by Watteau and Dürer. Created as embellishments for walls, arms and armor, and everyday objects, these designs remain eminently useful for graphic and decorative purposes.
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Si esta tierra es rica en manifestaciones artísticas de todos los periodos, casi con total seguridad uno de los productos estrella es la escultura "barroca", y utilizamos el término barroco, no sin incumbir en error, de elevarnos sobre su enclave de temporalidad, para aludir a un arte cuyas claves sociales se han mantenido desde el siglo XVII hasta la actualidad, más que a unas meras características formales, que ha sabido reinventarse y crear...
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These rare 17th-century views of celebrated Roman fountains and gardens constitute some of the finest and most accurate landscape drawings of the Italian Baroque period. The only edition in print, this compilation of outstanding engravings will be of immense interest to architectural historians as well as travelers to Rome and lovers of art and architecture.
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Severo Sarduy never enjoyed the same level of notoriety as did other Latin American writers like García Márquez and Vargas-Llosa, and his compatriot, Cabrera-Infante. On the other hand, he never lacked for excellent critical interpretations of his work from critics like Roberto González Echevarría, René Prieto, Gustavo Guerrero, and other reputable scholars. Missing, however, from what is otherwise an impressive body of critical commentary, is...
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Como los grandes pintores, nosotros también queríamos hacer un gran libro, que por motivos de espacio y edición se ha convertido en tres, y sumando los granitos de arena de los treinta autores que lo componen, hemos creado un gran castillo de treinta y siete plantas/capítulos, con tres sedes, que nos cuentan una bonita historia barroca que se extiende desde finales del siglo XVI hasta ayer, cuando cualquier imagen, ya sea naturalista, barroca,...
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El Arte de Retorno se define como la retroalimentación artística entre América Latina, las Islas Canarias y España durante el periodo colonial y el siglo XIX. El archipiélago canario, punto estratégico en las políticas expansionistas del imperio español, gozará de una efervescencia comercial y artística que durará más de 300 años. Pone nombre a un proceso cultural en el cual, el trasiego de obras, artistas, tipologías iconográficas...
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Hay en el neobarroco nuestroamericano una doble operación, que es la que le da el título a este ensayo. Por un lado, de ingesta ritual, antropofágica, de nuestra tradición europea e indígena, urbana y canyengue, culta y marginal. Ingesta, asimismo, de las estrategias de seducción del barroco, estrategias de deseo. Ingesta, por momentos voraz, de una tradición que no es sólo occidental: los neobarrocos son auténticos apropiadores de elementos...
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Durante los siglos XVII y XVIII las naciones europeas tienden a sobresalir sobre sus vecinas y a buscar expresiones barrocas típicas de cada país. Para conseguirlo, este estilo recurre a sofisticadas ornamentaciones que le convierten en un estilo recargado y a veces violento. Francia y Flandes, igual que las otras naciones europeas se preocupan de destacar, como hacen todos los demás con un estilo demasiado teatral a veces.
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Era necesario un capítulo intermedio para ilustrar el período de transición entre el Gótico y el Renacimiento. El título de este capítulo abunda en la terminología ampliamente aceptada de arquitectura "isabelina" y "plateresca". Se trata de presentar los últimos esplendores del gótico flamígero en la Península, que coinciden en lo sustancial con el llamado "estilo Isabel", y el proceso de incorporación de elementos formales renacentistas,...
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Una tarde de marzo de 1629. Dos hombres se sientan ante una jarra de vino y empiezan a charlar. El mayor de ellos es ya una leyenda viviente, el pintor más celebrado de Europa, estragado, viudo, ahíto de fama y de dinero. El joven ha llegado de Sevilla pocos años antes y está empezando a abrirse camino como pintor y como cortesano. El mayor es sensual, abigarrado y barroco; el joven serio, austero y elegante.
El mayor se llama Pedro Pablo; el...
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The leading exponent of the Rococo style, Jean-Honoré Fragonard's paintings are characterised by remarkable facility, exuberance and frivolous hedonism. Regarded as one of the greatest colourists of art history, Fragonard produced stunning artworks that capture the spirit of the final days of the Ancien Régime, conveying intimacy and veiled eroticism. Delphi's Masters of Art Series presents the world's first digital e-Art books, allowing readers...
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Rembrandt is revered not only as a painter, but as a supreme master of drawing and etching as well. His work in etching spanned most of his career and embraced the wide range of subjects he pursued in his painting: portraits, landscapes, biblical scenes, pictures with allegorical and mythological themes, and more. This comprehensive collection contains Rembrandt's complete etchings - over 300 works - most of them shown in their original size. They...
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The great Italian Mannerist painter of the Venetian school, Tintoretto was one of the most important artists of the late Renaissance. Due to his phenomenal energy in painting he was termed 'Il Furioso' and his works are characterized by their muscular figures, dramatic gestures and bold use of perspective. Delphi's Masters of Art Series presents the world's first digital e-Art books, allowing readers to explore the works of great artists in comprehensive...
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This book is a collection of fourteen essays on the “Dialogues on Painting”, published by the Florentine-born Spanish painter and art theorist Vicente Carducho (1568—1638) in 1633. This was the first treatise in Spanish on the art of painting, written as part of a campaign led by Carducho in collaboration with other prominent painters working in Madrid, to raise the status of the artist from artisan to liberal artist. The treatise provides an...
16) Baroque Art
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The Baroque period lasted from the beginning of the seventeenth century to the middle of the eighteenth century. Baroque art was artists' response to the Catholic Church's demand for solemn grandeur following the Council of Trent, and through its monumentality and grandiloquence it seduced the great European courts. Amongst the Baroque arts, architecture has, without doubt, left the greatest mark in Europe: the continent is dotted with magnificent...
17) Claude Lorrain
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Claude Gellée, called Claude Lorrain was neither a great man nor a lofty spirit like Poussin. His genius cannot, however, be denied and he was, like Poussin, a profoundly original inventor within the limitations of a classical ideal. He too spent most of his life in Rome though the art he created was not specifically Italian, but French. For more than two centuries afterwards everyone in France who felt called upon to depict the beauties of nature...
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William Blake's works incorporate Eastern elements to challenge Western art, as seen in "The Spiritual Form of Pitt Guiding Behemoth" and "The Spiritual Form of Nelson Guiding Leviathan." These pieces raise questions about the true personality of these 'heroes' and the potential cultural appropriation resulting from the British Empire's presence in India.
19) Poussin
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Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665) était un peintre du classicisme français qui prônait clarté et logique dans ses tableaux. Il peignait souvent de larges scènes mythologiques ou bibliques, mais il était également au premier rang de la peinture de paysage. Il fut premier peintre du roi Louis XIII, mais passa la majeure partie de sa vie à Rome. Sa manière devint le style officiel enseigné à l'Académie durant le reste du XVIIe siècle. Par la suite,...
20) Nicolas Poussin
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Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665) était un peintre classique français qui a choisi la clarté et la lumiere dans ses peintures, peignant souvent des scènes de la mythologie ou de la Bible. Il a eu beaucoup de succès dans le domaine de la peinture de paysage. Il fut un peintre tresapprecie du Roi Louis XIII, mais passa la plus grande partie de sa vie à Rome, son style devenant le style officiel de la peinture à l'Académie de Paris. Son influenceatteignit...
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