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Giovanni Bellini
Giovanni Bellini (d. 1516) boasts a long career that left an indelible mark on Venetian painting. Vasari and other early writers failed to distinguish Bellini's late works from the rest of his output. Focused on Titian as the quintessential "old age" artist, subsequent writers have also paid little attention to Bellini's late work as a separate phase of his career. Bellini did not choose the subjects of his last pictures, which were stipulated by his patrons, but instead relied more and more on assistants; his decision to undertake and personally conceive and execute them points to a special commitment on his part to their creation. The Feast of the Gods (National Gallery of Art, Washington,...
Contemplating Concepts
We take our deepest concepts of ourselves and the world for granted, but they are anything but obvious. Nevertheless, our deepest concepts profoundly influence how we think and act in everyday affairs. Understanding the nature and organization of our concepts, and the subtleties involved in how we mentally represent them, is a primary goal of this book.The text covers three main topics from an information processing perspective. Part I is a fairly wide-ranging examination of the general nature of concepts-what they might be, how they might work, etc. Part II develops an explicit method for representing and organizing concepts to facilitate knowledge analysis. The third major topic, perception, is covered in a rather large appendix. Perception is the grist for our conceptual mill, serving as a basis for conceptualization, but employing radically different forms of representation. The core meaning we ascribe to our concepts, it is proposed, develops when we interpret our representations, either in or out of context, in terms of a latent personal ontology.
Lorenzo Lotto
This study of the Venetian artist Lorenzo Lotto draws on the large body of work by the artist, as well as on the 16th-century documentation on the artist's life, including letters, an account book for the years 1538-56, and will.
Alain Elkann Interviews
Alain Elkann has mastered the art of the interview. With a background in novels and journalism, and having published over twenty books translated across ten languages, he infuses his interviews with innovation, allowing them to flow freely and organically. Alain Elkann Interviews will provide an unprecedented window into the minds of some of the most well-known and -respected figures of the last twenty-five years.
Audrey Hepburns Neck
A "dazzling debut" ("People"), Alan Brown's novel tells the story of 23-year-old Toshi who moves to Tokyo, where he finds a thrilling metropolis full of Americans. "Intelligently and tenderly (braids) politics, war, laughter, and erotic and familial love".--"New York Newsday".
Raphael and America
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Overshadowed: Leonardo Da Vinci and Bernardino Luini
A scholarly reappraisal of Luini's appropriation of Da Vinci's motifs and compositions This volume examines a selection of paintings from the 1520s by Italian Renaissance painter Bernardino Luini (c. 1480/85-1532) that were highly influenced by Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), endeavoring to reconceive Luini's much-criticized lack of originality vis-à-vis the older master. Luini's critics, the book argues, fail to consider the function of his paintings as devotional images for the general public. Not only did Luini simplify and clarify da Vinci's motifs--rendering them accessible to uneducated viewers--but he also helped set a new standard for the depiction of sacred subjects, drawing inspiration from other artists such as Andrea Solario. While little is known about the public's perception of religious art during this period, the compositions of Luini's paintings provide clues--as detectable in the way he foregrounds figures and frames their interactions with one another and the beholder.
Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, and the Renaissance of Venetian Painting
Presents a survey of sixty Venetian Renaissance paintings of the calibre of Bellini and Titian's "Feast of the Gods" in Washington and Giorgione's "Laura and Three Philosophers" in Vienna.
