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Art and the Religious Image in El Greco’s Italy
Art and the Religious Image in El Greco’s Italy is the first book-length examination of the early career of one of the early modern period’s most notoriously misunderstood figures. Born around 1541, Domenikos Theotokopoulos began his career as an icon painter on the island of Crete. He is best known, under the name “El Greco,” for the works he created while in Spain, paintings that have provoked both rapt admiration and scornful disapproval since his death in 1614. But the nearly ten years he spent in Venice and Rome, from 1567 to 1576, have remained underexplored until now. Andrew Casper’s examination of this period allows us to gain a proper understanding of El Greco’s entire career and reveals much about the tumultuous environment for religious painting after the Council of Trent. Art and the Religious Image in El Greco’s Italy is a new book in the Art History Publication Initiative (AHPI), a collaborative grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Thanks to the AHPI grant, this book will be available in popular e-book formats.
Great Historians from Antiquity to 1800
A biographical dictionary in the field of historiography, this volume consists of brief articles on the life and work of 600 historians from all over the world. The introduction by Boia traces the evolution of the field. Entries are arranged alphabetically by country or geographic area, and include brief bibliographies. Reference & Research Book News The result of an extensive international collaboration between scholars and researchers, this volume is the first biographical dictionary in the field of the history of historiography ever published. The work includes brief articles on the life and work of 600 historians from all over the world, from the beginnings of historiography to 1800. The...
Monte Cassino in the Middle Ages
The monastery of Monte Cassino, founded by St. Benedict in the sixth century, was the cradle of Western monasticism. It became one of the vital centers of culture and learning in Europe. At the height of its influence, in the eleventh and early twelfth centuries, two of its abbots (including Desiderius) and one of its monks became popes, and it controlled a vast network of dependencies--churches, monasteries, villages, and farms--especially in central and southern Italy. Herbert Bloch's study, the product of forty years of research, takes as its starting point the twelfth-century bronze doors of the basilica of the abbey, the most significant relic of the medieval structure. The panels of th...
Napoleon in Italy
Drawing on underutilized military records in Austrian, French, and Italian archives, Cuccia delves into these important conflicts to integrate political and social issues with a campaign study. Unlike other military histories of the era, Napoleon in Italy brings to light the words of soldiers, leaders, and citizens who experienced the sieges firsthand.
La Sposa di Cristo
Lettere, documenti, memoria Akashica, fatti e tracce dimenticate, Catari e Spirituali, il potere sapienziale dei Tarocchi… Tutto ciò per fare luce su un segreto, per dare valore a quel racconto mai narrato su una figura insolita e suggestiva, che secoli di conformismo e oscurantismo hanno alterato ed emarginato, riducendone e confondendone l’immagine. Chi è e cosa ha rappresentato e rappresenta ancora la Sposa di Gesù? Rispondere a questa domanda significa comporre un puzzle di elementi e indizi sparsi nella storia, quella ufficiale, e in quei vangeli considerati eretici perché invisi al potere ecclesiale di Roma. L’autore, ricercatore di storie nascoste, attraverso un romanzo, documentato come un vero e proprio saggio, frutto di una lunga ricerca, d’insolite coincidenze e suggerimenti, individua un nome, un ricordo, che, nonostante le avversità, ha continuato instancabile a tramandare il suo segno, il suo messaggio. C’è un sottile filo rosso che unisce l’antica Linguadoca, l’attuale Provenza, alla terra della Sibilla Appenninica. Quel filo non potrà più essere occultato, ora che anche la Sposa ha mostrato la sua vera essenza, il suo afflato mistico.
