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Cellini's Perseus and Medusa and the Loggia dei Lanzi
Benvenuto Cellini’s Perseus and Medusa, one of Renaissance Italy’s most complex sculptures, is the subject of this study, which proposes that the statue’s androgynous appearance is paradoxical. Symbolizing the male ruler overcoming a female adversary, the Perseus legitimizes patriarchal power; but the physical similarity between Cellini’s characters suggests the hero rose through female agency. Dr. Corretti argues that although not a surrogate for powerful Medici women, Cellini’s Medusa may have reminded viewers that Cosimo I de’ Medici’s power stemmed in part from maternal influence. Drawing upon a vast body of art and literature, Dr. Corretti concludes that Cellini and his contemporaries knew the Gorgon as a version of the Earth Mother, whose image is found in art for Medici women.
Pinterest for Business
Take your business to new levels by using Pinterest -- the right way. 'Pinterest for Business: a Complete, Updated Guide for Ultimate Success' teaches original, advanced ways to curate your best so your Pinterest Page and pins will stand out and shine on the world's fastest growing social media platform; use Pinterest's technical updates to your benefit; attract and keep a massive following; optimize your website for Pinterest; drive enormous traffic to your site and dramatically increase sales; maximize the benefit of linking Pinterest to other social media venues; and much more. You'll also learn "secret" techniques top pinners have used to earn a large following, and to avoid mistakes associated with creating a Pinterest Business Page and with affiliate links. In short, this book, which has an enormous amount of insight and analysis not found elsewhere, is all you need to succeed on Pinterest.
The Limits of Identity: Early Modern Venice, Dalmatia, and the Representation of Difference
This book considers the production of collective identity in Venice (Christian, civic-minded, anti-tyrannical), which turned on distinctions drawn in various fields of representation from painting, sculpture, print, and performance to classified correspondence. Dismemberment and decapitation bore a heavy burden in this regard, given as indices of an arbitrary violence ascribed to Venice’s long-time adversary, “the infidel Turk.” The book also addresses the recuperation of violence in Venetian discourse about maintaining civic order and waging crusade. Finally, it examines mobile populations operating in the porous limits between Venetian Dalmatia and Ottoman Bosnia and the distinctions they disrupted between “Venetian” and “Turk” until their settlement on farmland of the Venetian state. This occurred in the eighteenth century with the closing of the borderlands, thresholds of difference against which early modern “Venetian-ness” was repeatedly measured and affirmed.
The Agency of Female Typology in Italian Renaissance Paintings
This study employs cognitive theory as a heuristic framework to interrogate the agency of female types in select Italian Renaissance paintings, with emphasis on Venus, Medusa, the Amazon, Boccaccio's Lady Fiammetta/Cleopatra, Susanna, the Magdalene, and the Madonna. The study disrupts assumptions about the identity of sitters and readings of paintings as it challenges paradigms of female representation. It interrogates why certain paintings were crafted, by whom and for whom. Works are placed in the context of meta-painting, with stress on the cognitive decisions negotiated between patron and artist. The ludic aspects of several paintings are examined with a fine grain semiotic approach to expand their iconographies. Psychoanalytic readings are unpacked, based on the flawed mythological metaphors and incomplete clinical studies of Sigmund Freud's theorizing. The rubric of female agency is deliberately selected to unify popular but enigmatic master paintings of disparate subjects.
The Hunters (The Hunters 1)
The first in THE HUNTERS series from the international bestseller Chris Kuzneski - "If you seek, they will find"... The Hunters: Financed by a billionaire philanthropist, this elite team - an ex-soldier, an historian, a computer whiz, a weapons expert, and a thief - is tasked with finding the world's most legendary treasures. The mission: Fearing a German victory in WWI, the Romanian government signed a deal with Russia to guarantee the safety of the country's treasures. In 1916, two trains full of gold and the most precious possessions of the Romanian state - paintings, jewellery, and ancient artefacts - were sent to the underground vaults of the Kremlin. But in the turmoil of war, the treasure was scattered - and lost. Almost a century later, the haul is valued at over 3.5 billion dollars. Despite hundreds of attempts to find it, its location has remained a mystery... Until now. Can the Hunters find the treasure and succeed where all others have failed?
The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Mythography
The field of mythography has grown substantially in the past thirty years, an acknowledgment of the importance of how ancient writers "wrote down the myths" as they systematized, organized and interpreted the vast and contested mythical storyworld. With the understanding that mythography remains a contested category, that its borders are not always clear, and that it shifted with changes in the socio-cultural and political landscapes, The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Mythography offers a range of scholarly voices that attempt to establish how and to what extent ancient writers followed the "mythographical mindset" that prompted works ranging from Apollodorus' Library to the rationalizi...
The Paragone in Nineteenth-Century Art
Offering an examination of the paragone, meaning artistic rivalry, in nineteenth-century France and England, this book considers how artists were impacted by prevailing aesthetic theories, or institutional and cultural paradigms, to compete in the art world. The paragone has been considered primarily in the context of Renaissance art history, but in this book readers will see how the legacy of this humanistic competitive model survived into the late nineteenth century.
시선의 불평등
“이미지는 어떻게 여성의 몸을 통제해왔는가” 시각문화에 뿌리내린 여성의 사회적 고정관념에 관한 논쟁 역사적으로 ‘보는 행위’는 모두에게 주어진 기본 권리가 아니었다. 본다는 것, 그리고 보는 사람이 누구인가 하는 문제는 우리가 생각하는 것보다 더 권력 및 통제와 관련이 있다. 이는 자신들의 버전으로 이야기를 하는 주체가 누구이고, 누군가를 대상으로 삼는 주체는 누구인가와 연관된다. 특히 지난 수세기에 걸쳐 시각문화 창작을 거의 독점해온 남성들이 어떤 방식으로 여성성의 전형을 구축하는 데 앞장서고 ...
A Short History of Florence and the Florentine Republic
The innovative city culture of Florence was the crucible within which Renaissance ideas first caught fire. With its soaring cathedral dome and its classically-inspired palaces and piazzas, it is perhaps the finest single expression of a society that is still at its heart an urban one. For, as Brian Jeffrey Maxson reveals, it is above all the city-state – the walled commune which became the chief driver of European commerce, culture, banking and art – that is medieval Italy's enduring legacy to the present. Charting the transition of Florence from an obscure Guelph republic to a regional superpower in which the glittering court of Lorenzo the Magnificent became the pride and envy of the continent, the author authoritatively discusses a city that looked to the past for ideas even as it articulated a novel creativity. Uncovering passionate dispute and intrigue, Maxson sheds fresh light too on seminal events like the fiery end of oratorical firebrand Savonarola and Giuliano de' Medici's brutal murder by the rival Pazzi family. This book shows why Florence, harbinger and heartland of the Renaissance, is and has always been unique.
Stein
Am künstlerischen Umgang mit dem Naturmaterial Stein, seiner Verwendung und malerischen Nachahmung, lassen sich wesentliche Fragen der frühneuzeitlichen Kunstproduktion und Kunsttheorie diskutieren. Die Anthologie versammelt Quellentexte von der Antike bis in das 18. Jahrhundert, mit denen der schriftliche Diskurs über Stein – Marmor, Porphyr und Edelstein – und die Semantisierung des Materials rekonstruiert werden können. Mit mehr als 40 kommentierten Texten von Künstlern, Kunsttheoretikern, Humanisten, Vertretern der Kirche sowie Philosophen gibt die Quellensammlung einen Einblick in den Steindiskurs des europäischen Kulturraums in der Vormoderne. Die Quellenkommentare ordnen die teils erstmals oder neu übersetzten Textpassagen in die für sie relevanten ideengeschichtlichen Kontexte ein.
