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Caravaggio
A Revolution in Painting The mysterious genius who transformed European art Caravaggio, or more accurately Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610), was always a name to be reckoned with. Notorious bad boy of Italian painting, the artist was at once celebrated and controversial: violent in temper, precise in technique, a creative master, and a man on the run. Today, he is considered one of the greatest influences in all art history. This Bibliotheca Universalis edition offers a neat yet comprehensive Caravaggio catalogue raisonn�. Each of his paintings is reproduced from recent top-quality photography, allowing for a vivid encounter with the artist's ingenious repertoire of looks and ...
Caravaggio. the Complete Works. 40th Ed
Notorious bad boy of Italian painting, Caravaggio is now considered one of the greatest influences in all art history. This neat catalogue raisonné reproduces all of Caravaggio's paintings as well as a number of dramatic details of his boundary-breaking realism. Five accompanying chapters trace Caravaggio's artistic daring and his equally...
Friedrich Nietzsche and the Artists of the New Weimar
"Around 1900, a small group of influential patrons, critics, writers, and artists turned Weimar, the capital of the small Duchy of Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach in present-day Germany, into a utopian centre of modern art and thought. Artists like Max Klinger, Edvard Munch, and Ludwig von Hofmann, and writers like André Gide, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, and Rainer Maria Rilke sought to create a 'New Weimar and position Friedrich Nietzsche at its head as the radical prophet of modernity. Nietzsche's profound thinking, expressive language, and poignant aphoristic style made him the ideal philosopher of modernism. It is only as an aesthetic phenomenon that existence and the world are eternally justified. ...
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Divina Comedia Di Dante
Two creative masterminds and universal themes of love, guilt, revenge, and redemption come together in this exceptional edition of William Blake's 102 illustrations for Dante's The Divine Comedy. The XL-sized volume includes 14 fold-out spreads, two introductory essays tracing Dante's legacy in the visual arts, and excerpts from the Commedia...
William Blake. Dante's 'Divine Comedy'. the Complete Drawings
Discover William Blake's complete 102 illustrations for The Divine Comedy, with excerpts from Dante's epic poem. Featuring an intimate reading of Blake's extraordinary works and many close-up details, this is a breathtaking encounter with two of the finest artistic talents in history, as well as with such universal themes as love, guilt, ...
Caravaggio & His Followers in Rome
"The Italian artist Caravaggio (1571-1610) had a profound impact on a wide range of baroque painters of Italian, French, Dutch, Flemish, and Spanish origin who resided in Rome either during his lifetime or immediately afterward. This captivating book illustrates the notion of "Caravaggism," showcasing 65 works by Peter Paul Rubens and other important artists of the period who drew inspiration from Caravaggio. Also depicted are Caravaggio canvases that fully exhibit his distinctive style, along with ones that had a particularly discernible impact on other practitioners. Caravaggio's influence was greatest in Rome, where his works were seen by the largest and most international group of artist...
William Blake - Dante's Divine Comedy
Within a dark forest: Dante by Blake: rarely seen illustrations of the Divine ComedyDante Alighieri's Divine Comedy (completed in 1321) is widely considered the greatest work composed in the Italian language and a masterpiece of world literature. On the surface, the poem describes Dante's travels through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven; but at a deeper level, it represents the soul's journey towards God.In the last few years of his life, Romantic poet and artist William Blake (1757-1827) produced 102 illustrations for Dante's masterwork, from pencil sketches to finished watercolors. Like Dante's sweeping poem, Blake's drawings range from scenes of suffering to light, from horrifying human disfig...
Perspektivenwechsel: Sammler, Sammlungen, Sammlungskulturen in Wien und Mitteleuropa
Sammlungsschwerpunkte und Erwerbungsstrategien, ästhetische Wertschätzung und Preisgestaltung, Präsentation und Aufstellung, Netzwerke von Agenten, Kunsthändlern und Beratern stehen im Zentrum des Bandes, der so unterschiedliche Sammlerpersönlichkeiten wie den Fürstbischof von Olmütz (Olomouc), Karl von Liechenstein-Castelcorno, den Kardinalprotektor der Habsburger im päpstlichen Rom, Kardinal Nicolò del Giudice, den Hofkomponisten Georg Reutter d. J., den Grafen Johann Rudolph Czernin und seinen Sohn Eugen Karl oder den zu großem Reichtum gelangten Tuchhändler Friedrich Jakob Gsell in den Blick nimmt. Übergreifende Analysen behandeln etwa die Herrscherbildnisse Maria Theresias als Sammlungsobjekte, die Frühgeschichte des Wiener Auktionskataloges und die besondere Wertschätzung klassizistischer Skulptur im kaiserlichen Wien.
Antiquities
Der berühmte Katalog wurde in vier Bänden publiziert. Vollständige Ausgaben dieses heute seltenen Werkes erzielen Höchstpreise bei Auktionen. Für die vorliegende Ausgabe wurde das besonders schöne Exemplar der Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek in Weimar detailgetreu reproduziert, um den heutigen Leser in den Genuss eines Werkes zu bringen, das den klassischen Geschmack des britischen Königreiches, ja ganz Europas geprägt und Manufakturen wie Wedgwood zu den bekannten Reproduktionen inspiriert hat. Diese prachtvolle Publikation antiker Vasen ist das Ergebnis der überaus fruchtbaren Zusammenarbeit des britischen Diplomaten und Sammlers Sir William Hamilton (1730-1803) und des Abenteurer...
