Parragon, 1997. — 88 p. In his short, turbulent life Amedeo Modigliani produced the greatest art of any Italian of this century. A superb draughtsman, Modigliani was also a great portrait painter, a brilliant painter of the nude and a fine sculptor. All these aspects of his many-sided genius are displayed in the magnificent pictures in this book.
Geneva: Editions d'Art Albert Skira. — 140 p. Fra Angelico and his times,his life, the man and the artist in the light of critical tradition, his aesthetic.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1989. — 405 p., pix. Foreword by Philippe de Montebello Lenders to the Exbition Notes to the Reader Canaletto: a Biographical Sketch by J.G. Links Canaletto as Artist of the Urban Scene by Michael Levey The Taste for Canaletto by Francis Haskell Fantasy and Reality in Canaletto's Drawing by Alessandro Bettango The Development of...
With an essay by William M. Griswold. — New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1996. — 98 p. This publication is issued in conjunction with the exhibition "Genoa: Drawings and Prints, 1530-1800" held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 23-July 10, 1996. Genoa, well known as a seaport established in ancient times and as the birthplace of Christopher Columbus,...
Geneva: Editions d'Art Albert Skira. 1960.—154 p. Giotto di Bondone , known as Giotto was an Italian painter and architect from Florence in the late Middle Age. He is generally considered the first in a line of great artists who contributed to the Renaissance.
W. W. Norton & Co., 1999. — 310 p. — ISBN: 0393045242 The personalities of artists often lie hidden behind veils of fact, myth and hearsay. Drawing on clues found in hundreds of contemporary documents, many in the artist's own hand, the author redefines our view of Michelangelo from his earliest relationships to the days of his labour on the Sistine Chapel. The three worlds...
Mit sechzehn farbigen Tafeln und einundvierzig einfarbigen Abbildungen. — Berlin: Henschelverlag Kunst und Gesellschaft, DDR, 1973. — 70 s. — (Welt der Kunst). Die intensive Auseinandersetzung mit Raffael und seinem Werk begann zu Lebzeiten des Künstlers und dauert bis heute an. Selten sind Ideen- und Formengut eines großen Künstlers so wirksam geworden. Neben Michelangelo,...
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1997. — 52 p. — ISBN: 087099-824-2 This book described prints works artists Canaletto (Canal, Giovanni Antonio) (Italian, 1697–1768) , Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola) (Italian, Parma, 1503–1540), Ricci, Sebastino (Italian, 1659–1734), Tiepolo, Giovanni Battista (Italian, 1696–1770) , Zanetti, Antonio Maria
Delphi Classics, 2015. — 442 p. — (Masters of Art Book 20). Cherished for their linear grace, the divine and mythological masterpieces of Botticelli are the epitome of the golden age of Florentine art. Delphi’s Masters of Art Series presents the world’s first digital e-Art books, allowing digital readers to explore the works of great artists in comprehensive detail. This volume...
117 JPG . up to 5047*6174. Vittore Carpaccio (c. 1465 – 1525/1526) was a Venetian painter of the Venetian school, who studied under Gentile Bellini. He is best known for a cycle of nine paintings, The Legend of Saint Ursula. His style was somewhat conservative, showing little influence from the Humanist trends that transformed Italian Renaissance painting during his lifetime....
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2005. — 386 p. — ISBN: 1-58839-142-6. In 1934 the Italian government lifted restrictions governing the gabled Barberini Collection in Rome, making it possible for two intriguing fifteenth-century paintings to be put on the international art market. Within just two years both had been sold — one to The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the...
New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Arts. — 48 p. — (The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 41, no. 2 (Fall, 1983). Artists: Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi) (Italian, Florentine, 1444/45–1510) Carnevale, Fra (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini) (Italian, Marchigian, active by 1445, died 1484) Cosimo, Piero di Da Fabriano, Gentile Degli Erri, Bartolomeo...
New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1982. — 56 p. — (The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 40, no. 1 Summer, 1982). Artists: Bartolo di Fredi (Italian, Sienese, active 1353, dated 1410) Di Banco, Maso (Italian, Florentine, active 1320–46) Duccio di Buoninsegna (Italian, Sienese, active ca. 1278–1318) Gaddi, Taddeo (Italian, Florentine, active by 1334, died 1366)...
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1988. — 401 p. — ISBN: 0-87099-529-4 This first comprehensive study in English devoted to Sienese painting to be published in four decades centers on the fifteenth century, a fascinating but frequently neglected period when Sienese artists confronted the innovations of Renaissance painting in Florence. The painters of Siena, without...
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1988. — 330 p. — ISBN: 0-87099-522-7 Umberto Boccioni (1882–1916) is a model of the spirit and flavor of Futurism — militant, exuberant, actively taking part in the social and political events of the turbulent times in which he lived. His manifestos and his powerfully sensuous visualizations exemplify the nature and the pertinence of the...
Westview Press, 1999. — 291 p. This up-to-date, well-illustrated, and thoughtful introduction to the life and works of one of the giants of Western Painting also surveys the golden age of Venetian Painting from Giovanni Bellini to Veronese and its place in the history of Western art. Bruce Cole, Distinguished Professor of Fine Arts at Indiana University and author of numerous...
N.-Y.: Parkstone International, 2013. — 256 p. If, as the famous saying goes, you really are what you eat, then Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1527-1593) was a consummate painter of the human soul. This artist was a master draftsman whose finely wrought canvases captured the imagination of his generation. In this fascinating book, Liana De Girolami Cheney takes a closer look at the...
Delphi Classic. 2016. — 559 p. — ISBN: 9781786564948 Though he died young in relative obscurity, the works of Amedeo Modigliani are now regarded as some of the most important canvases of the twentieth century. Modigliani’s innovative portraits and nudes are characterised by their asymmetrical compositions, elongated figures and monumental use of line. Delphi’s Masters of Art...
Delphi Classic. 2016. — 679 p. Revered as the father of European painting and the first of the great Italian masters, Giotto di Bondone was the leading Italian painter of the fourteenth century, whose pioneering works would lead on to the innovations and wonders of the High Renaissance. Delphi’s Masters of Art Series presents the world’s first digital e-Art books, allowing...
Delphi Classics, 2016. — 544 p. — (Masters of Art Book). — ASIN: B01DME2L2A. Revered as the father of European painting and the first of the great Italian masters, Giotto di Bondone was the leading Italian painter of the fourteenth century, whose pioneering works would lead on to the innovations and wonders of the High Renaissance. Delphi’s Masters of Art Series presents the...
Delphi Classics, 2017. — 358 p. — (Masters of Art Book). — ASIN: B06ZYK29Y9. Giovanni Bellini revolutionised Venetian painting, developing a more sensuous and colouristic style. Through his use of clear, slow-drying oil paints, Bellini created deep, rich tints and detailed shadings, producing sumptuous artworks that were significant to the Italian Renaissance, especially for...
Delphi Classic, 2014. — 2154 p. The ‘Divine’ sculptor, painter, architect, poet and engineer, Michelangelo Buonarroti exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art, producing masterpieces that rank among the most famous in existence. Delphi’s groundbreaking ‘Masters of Art Series’ presents the world’s first digital e-Art books, allowing digital readers to...
Delphi Classics, 2014. — 956 p. — (Masters of Art Book). — ASIN: B00R1N4BGI. The ‘Divine’ sculptor, painter, architect, poet and engineer, Michelangelo Buonarroti exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art, producing masterpieces that rank among the most famous in existence. Delphi’s groundbreaking ‘Masters of Art Series’ presents the world’s first...
Delphi Classic. 2015. — 581 p. Tiziano Vecelli or Tiziano Vecellio ( c. 1488/1490[1] – 27 August 1576), known in English as Titian , was an Italian painter, the most important member of the 16th-century Venetian school. He was born in Pieve di Cadore, near Belluno (in Veneto, Republic of Venice). During his lifetime he was often called da Cadore, taken from the place of his...
Delphi. Complete Works of Titian (Illustrated) Delphi Classics, 2015. — 490 p. — (Masters of Art Book). — ASIN: B010KWCRYY. The most prominent exponent of Venetian art, Titian was equally adept with portraits and landscapes, as well as mythological and religious subjects. His celebrated use of colour would exercise a profound influence on future generations of Western art....
Delphi Classics, 2017. — 786 p. — (Delphi Masters of Art Book 44). The greatest sculptor of the Italian Renaissance, Donatello produced both marble and bronze masterpieces. His revolutionary statues were lauded for their incredible realism, while he also developed his very own form of shallow bas-relief, known as ‘schiacciato’. Donatello possessed an extensive knowledge of...
New York: Time Ink., 1967. — 208 p. Giotto di Bondone known as Giotto , was an Italian painter and architect from Florence in the late Middle Ages. He is generally considered the first in a line of great artists who contributed to the Renaissance.
Delphi Classics, 2017. — 292 p. — (Delphi Masters of Art Book 34). The Italian Baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi is considered one of the most accomplished painters in the generation following Caravaggio. In an era when women painters were not easily accepted by the artistic community or patrons, she was the first woman to become a member of the Accademia di Arte del Disegno...
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1998. — 330 p. — ISBN: 0-87099-875-7 Imagination, sensual delight, a sharp wit — these qualities were enormously prized in sixteenth-century Ferrara, where one of the most cultured and powerful courts of the High Renaissance held sway. Dosso Dossi was the idiosyncratic, brilliant painter most responsible for turning those values into a...
L'Unità. Pages: 65. Language: italiano. Michelangelo Buonarroti (Caprese Michelangelo, 6 marzo 1475 – Roma, 18 febbraio 1564) è stato uno scultore, pittore, architetto e poeta italiano. Protagonista del Rinascimento italiano, fu riconosciuto già al suo tempo come uno dei più grandi artisti di sempre. Intese fare della sua attività un'incessante ricerca dell'ideale di bellezza....
Educatt Università Cattolica, 2009. — 120 p. Breve guida alla conoscenza dell'artigianato artistico italiano di eccellenza. Storia, attualità e percorsi formativi.
Taschen GmbH, 2000. — 98 p. Amedeo Modigliani 1884-1920: The Poetry of Seeing. The controversial darling and target of the popular press: Scandalous Amedeo Modigliani To contemporaries, Amedeo Modigliani was the very definition of Parisian Bohemia, the controversial darling and target of the popular press and the model on which many a novel, play and film was based. As an...
New York, USA: Parkstone Press Int., 2018. — 256 p. — ISBN: 978-1-78525-639-4. Raphael (1483-1520), the Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance, was a genius in and ahead of his time. Together with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, he formed the classical trinity of this era and elaborated a rich style of harmony and geometry. As one of the great masters of the...
New York, USA: Parkstone Press Int., 2018. — 256 p. — ISBN: 978-1-78525-640-0. Raphael (1483-1520), the Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance, was a genius in and ahead of his time. Together with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, he formed the classical trinity of this era and elaborated a rich style of harmony and geometry. As one of the great masters of the...
Reaktion Books, 2015. — 400 p. Jacopo Tintoretto (1518–94) is an ambiguous figure in the history of art. His radically unorthodox paintings are not readily classifiable, and although he was a Venetian by birth, his standing as a member of the Venetian school is constantly contested. But he was also a formidable maverick, abandoning the humanist narratives and sensuous color...
New York: Frederick A. Praeger Publishers, 1968. — 384 p. The glory of Italian Renaissance art has overshadowed the work of earlier Italian masters. In the past century, a great number of panel paintings and frescoes of extraordinary importance have come to light, and these masterpieces reveal a hitherto unknown art of outstanding richness. In Early Italian Painting, art...
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. 2003. — 205 p. — ISBN: 1-58839-030-6 John Ruskin called manuscript illumination "writing made beautiful." Medieval artists transformed sober liturgical texts into exquisite treasures as they masterfully adorned or illustrated initials, decorated borders, and painted delicate miniatures in radiant "stained-glass" colors. But following the...
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016. — 64 p. — ISBN: 1530113504. Amedeo Modigliani was the epitome of a tragic artist. Although he purposely created a life in which chaos, poverty, and trouble lurked in every corner, he was a prolific artist. He sketched furiously, sometimes drawing over 100 sketches in a day, but many of his works were lost, given away, or in...
Mit neunzehn farbigen Tafeln und zweiundzwanzig einfarbigen Abbildungen. — Berlin-Budapest-Warszawa: Henschelverlag, Corvina, Arkady, 1985. — 70 s. — (Welt der Kunst) Pietro [Lorenzetti]... konnte in seinem Leben die Befriedigung auskosten, die wirkliche Meisterschaft gibt; er sah seine Werke daheim und im Auslande geschätzt und von allen begehrt... Er zeigte sein Können zuerst...
New York: Henry N. Abrams, 1968. — 136 p. It is thanks to Canaletto, the painter of views, that today we can know and enjoy what many eighteenth-century European cities looked like. His control of optical principles gives a panoramic completeness to each scene; his meticulous and sensitive touch preserves the atmosphere, the skyline, the very look of each place. Although the...
Napoli: Edizioni Napoli Arte, 2010. — 92 p. Il libro raccoglie una serie di articoli di Achille della Ragione riguardanti pittori napoletani del Settecento pubblicati negli ultimi anni su svariate riviste sia cartacee che telematiche. Talune volte si tratta di contributi esaustivi, al limite della monografia, densi di aggiornamenti e di inediti, corredati da numerose foto, sia...
Geneva: Editions d'Art Albert Skira, 1958. — 148 p. Amedeo Clemente was an Italian Jewish painter and sculptor who worked mainly in France. He is known for portraits and nudes in a modern style characterized by elongation of faces and figures, that were not received well during his lifetime, but later found acceptance.
Delphi Classics, 2015. — 896 p. — (Masters of Art Book 14). Few artists achieve in their lives the wealth and fame of Sir Peter Paul Rubens, whose beautiful Baroque works were celebrated for their emphasised movement, colour and sensuality. Delphi’s Masters of Art Series presents the world’s first digital e-Art books, allowing digital readers to explore the works of great...
Delphi Classics, 2016. — 383 p. The Venetian old master Canaletto achieved international fame for his landscapes, ‘vedute’, which were celebrated for their masterful expression of atmosphere. His detailed paintings of Venice, London and English country homes influenced succeeding generations of landscape artists. Delphi’s Masters of Art Series presents the world’s first digital...
Geneva: Editions d'Art Albert Skira, 1954. — 132 p. Piero della Francesca was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance. His painting was characterized by its serene humanism, its use of geometric forms and perspective. His most famous work is the cycle of frescoes
Geneva: Editions d'Art Albert Skira, 1959. — 154 p. Henri Rouault was a French painter, draughtsman, and printer, whose work is often associated with Fauvism and Expessionism.
Berlin: Henschelverlag; Warszawa: Arkady, 1973. — 48 p. ,,W kręgu sztuki to tytuł serii książek artystycznych, ktyra zdobyła sobie wiele uznania w szerokich kręgach czytelnikyw. Każdy zeszyt „W kręgu sztuki poświęcony jest jednej wybitnej twyrczej indywidualności. Zawiera kilkanaście wielobarwnych i kilka biało-czarnych reprodukcji. „W kręgu sztuki opiera się na wysoce...
New York: Time Ink., 1968. — 200 p. Tiziano Vecelli or Tiziano Vecellio , known in English as Titian , was an Italian painter, the most important member of the 16th-century Venetian school. Titian was one of the most versatile of Italian painters, equally adept with portraits, landscape backgrounds, and mythological and religious subjects.
A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. — Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1971. — 246 p. There are now over 400 Italian paintings in the Metropolitan Museum, some 140 of them acquired in the thirty-year period since the Museum published a catalogue of its Italian works. Here is the first volume of a greatly enlarged and extensively revised catalogue. It...
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