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A tale inspired by the life of Louisa May Alcott's youngest sister finds young May longing to study art outside of the confines of her Concord home before turning down a marriage proposal and pursuing an identity in contrast to the spoiled and worldly character of Amy in her sister's famed novel.
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"The traditional view of Leonardo da Vinci's career is that he enjoyed a promising start in Florence and then moved to Milan to become the celebrated court artist of Duke Ludovico Sforza. Young Leonardo proves all of this wrong. It reveals how the struggling painter was repeatedly snubbed by the prevailing trends of Florentine style before escaping to Milan empty-handed. But Milan offered little more; Sforza's patronage was lukewarm, to say the least,...
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Leonardo Da Vinci was left-handed. That's probably why he wrote backwards from right to left to avoid smudging ink on his hand as he made notes on his latest works and visionary discoveries. Words could only be read with the help of a mirror making it taxing for anyone but himself to quickly decode his handwriting. There are many theories exploring the reason why he kept using "mirror writing" in all his manuscripts. Some historians say that he was...
4) Becoming Michelangelo: apprenticing to the master, and discovering the artist through his drawings
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"An artist's extraordinary challenge to himself reveals the genius of Michelangelo in the making. Many believe Michelangelo's talent was miraculous and untrained, the product of 'divine' genius, but the young Michelangelo studied art like any Renaissance apprentice, learning from a master and experimenting with materials and styles. As a grad student in art history, Alan Pascuzzi won a Fulbright scholarship to 'apprentice' himself to Michelangelo,...
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Walter Pater (1839-1894) attained a B.A. degree in Classics from Queen's College, Oxford, followed soon after by a M.A. degree from Brasenose College, Oxford, where he was made a Fellow in 1865. That same year Pater toured Italy, where he discovered what would become a lifelong passion for masters of the Italian Renaissance like Leonardo da Vinci, Sandro Botticelli, Michelangelo, among many others. In 1877 he published "The Renaissance: Studies in...
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Leonardo da Vinci's life is fascinating; he is the prototypical Renaissance man, and acknowledged genius. Leonardo's Notebooks explores this biography in his own words and in his art, connecting moments of his life to artistic accomplishments. Exploring this image-filled book is as close to reading Da Vinci's diaries as we can get.
Leonardo da Vinci, artist, inventor, and prototypical Renaissance man, is a perennial source of fascination because...
7) Botticelli
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Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, better known as simply Sandro Botticelli, was born in Florence, Italy, probably in or around 1445. Serendipitously winning a high-profile commission from the Florentine court, he was catapulted to notoriety as wealthy patrons, in particular the Medici family, hired him to create works that celebrated their lives and their family's lives and marked important events such as weddings. Botticelli's range was wide:...
8) Rafael
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Rafael fue el artista más parecido al gran escultor Pheidias. Los griegos decían que este último no había inventado nada, pero fue capaz de llevar cada tipo de arte inventado por sus predecesores a tal cúspide, que logró alcanzar la armonía pura y perfecta. Estas palabras, "armonía pura y perfecta", expresan, de hecho, mejor que cualquier otra, lo que Rafael llevó al arte italiano. De Perugino tomó toda la delicada gracia y sutileza de la...
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Here are clear reproductions of over 1,200 anatomical drawings by one of humanity's greatest geniuses - still considered, nearly five centuries later, the finest ever rendered. With 215 plates, including studies of the osteological, myological, nervous, respiratory, alimentary, and genito-urinary system, this treasury will be admired by artists and scientists alike.
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Décryptez l'art de Lucas Cranach l'Ancien en moins d'une heure!
Aujourd'hui considéré comme l'un des plus grands artistes du XVIe siècle, Lucas Cranach l'Ancien flirte déjà avec le succès de son vivant. Peintre de cour, fondateur d'un atelier prospère et artiste phare de la Réforme, il est l'auteur d'une œuvre à double face: à cté de ses portraits sobres et de ses représentations religieuses dans l'esprit du luthéranisme, il s'illustre...
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At the turn of the 16th century, Italy was a turbulent territory made up of independent states, each at war with or intriguing against its neighbor. There were the proud, cultivated, and degenerate Sforzas in Milan, and in Rome, the corrupt Spanish family of the Borgia whose head, Rodrigo, ascended to St Peter's throne as Pope Alexander VI. In Florence, a golden age of culture and sophistication ended with the death of the greatest of the Medici family,...
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Who were the artists of the Renaissance? Why do we still learn from Renaissance art? Using an inquiry-based approach, readers are introduced to the Italian Renaissance as it was experienced by five of the world's most renowned artists: Sandro Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Titian. Readers will learn about the biographies of these Renaissance artists through the perspective of three to four major works of art that not only...
13) El Bosco
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Nacido a mediados del siglo, experimentó en toda su fuerza el drama del Renacimiento y de su guerra con la religión. Las tradiciones y valores medievales se estaban desintegrando para dar lugar al ingreso de la humanidad en un nuevo universo donde la fe pierde parte de su poder y mucho de su magia. Sus alegorías favoritas fueron el cielo, el infierno y la lujuria. El Bosco creía que cada quien tenía que elegir entre dos opciones: el cielo o el...
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For the 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci's death comes an immersive journey through five centuries of history to define the Leonardo mystique and uncover how the elusive Renaissance artist became a global pop icon.
Virtually everyone would agree that Leonardo da Vinci was the most important artist of the High Renaissance. It was Leonardo who singlehandedly created the defining features of Western art: a realism based on subtle shading; depth...
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¿La fuerte vocación de Leonardo hacia la investigación científica le resultó una ayuda o un estorbo en sus logros como artista? Es común que se le mencione como un ejemplo de las posibilidades que existen cuando se unen las artes y las ciencias. En él, se dice, el genio activo recibió un nuevo impulso a través de sus facultades analíticas; la razón reforzó la imaginación y las emociones. [...] Profundo conocedor y creador incomparable,...
16) J.M.W. Turner
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J.M.W. Turner est sans doute le plus grand peintre de paysages et de marines de tous les temps. Sa production fut prodigieuse: quelque cinq cent cinquante huiles, plus de deux mille aquarelles extrêmement détaillées et peaufinées et près de vingt mille esquisses, études et croquis à l'aquarelle. Il excellait dans toutes les formes de peinture: paysages ou marines, représentations historiques élaborées ou scènes classiques, petites aquarelles...
17) J.M.W. Turner
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Eric Shanes es una de las máximas autoridades sobre Turner y en este libro recoge más de cuarenta años de experiencia de trabajo sobre el artista. De la primera edición del libro se dijo lo siguiente:
"Tal como podríamos esperar del editor de los Estudios sobre Turner, Eric Shanes nos brinda una lectura particularmente enriquecedora y estimulante al incorporar los resultados de muchas investigaciones recientes".
John Gage, The Burlington Magazine...
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« Étudiant avec passion la nature et les modèles antiques, il était impossible que [Léonard de Vinci] ne combinât pas la précision avec la liberté, la vérité avec la beauté. Là, dans cet affranchissement définitif, dans cette pleine possession du modelé, de l'éclairage et de l'expression, dans cette ampleur et cette liberté, se trouvent la raison d'être et la gloire du maître: d'autres ont pu s'essayer dans des voies différentes...
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Al estudiar la naturaleza con pasión y con toda la independencia propia de su carácter, no podía dejar de combinar la precisión con la libertad y la verdad con la belleza. Es en esta emancipación final, en esta maestría perfecta del modelado, de la iluminación y de la expresión, en esta amplitud y libertad, en donde radica la gloria y la raison d'être del maestro. Es posible que otros hayan recorrido también nuevos senderos, pero ninguno...
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Lucas Cranach (1472-1553) was one of the greatest artists of the Renaissance, as shown by the diversity of his artistic interests as well as his awareness of the social and political events of this time. He developed a number of painting techniques which were afterwards used by several generations of artists. His somewhat mannered style and spending palette are easily recognized in numerous portraits of monarchs, cardinals, courtiers and their ladies,...
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