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di: Emilie Passignat
Santissima cosa adunque è l’amistà, e non solamente di singular reverenzia degna ma d’essere con perpetua laude commendata, sì come discretissima madre di magnificenzia e d’onestà, sorella di gratitudine e ...
di: Deborah H. Cibelli
Giorgio Vasari’s (1511–1574) paintings of the Trinity and Three Angels Appearing to Abraham in the Plain of Marme (Figs. 1 and 2), which functioned as two sides of a gonfalone ...
di: Stefania Vai
For centuries, generations of scholars have been fascinated by the enigmatic Nude Pallas created by Lavinia Fontana (1552–1614), who depicted one of the most sensual representations of Minerva in two ...
di: D. M. R. Bentley
For a great many years, Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s Lady Lilith (1864–1868; see Fig. 1 and 1872–1873; see Fig. 2) has elicited widespread agreement on at least three counts: Rossetti’s substitution of Alexa ...
di: Liana De Girolami Cheney
When
writing to the poetess Eleanor Lady Leighton Warren (1841–1914), Edward
Burne-Jones (1833–1898) commented about his accomplishment in completing The
Hours:
I have been working very hard in spite of all things, and I ...
di: Patricia Likos Ricci
“When the query is propounded: What is
Nationality in Art? We are not readily answered,” the Cosmopolitan Art
Journal noted in 1857.
The hills, and valleys, and cities, and ships, are all ...
di: William R. Levin
Il cronista Matteo Villani - dopo aver riassunto le donazioni operate da parte della famosa Compagnia della Madonna di Orsanmichele di una ricchezza immensa finalizzata alla distribuzione ai poveri aumentati ...
di: Ellen L. Longsworth
There is only one central issue in art history, it seems to me, and that is to try to understand, in as many ways as possible, how it is that ...
di: Tina Waldeier Bizzarro
Works of art always spring from those who have faced the danger, gone to the very end of an experience, to the point beyond which no human being can go. ...
di: Brian D. Steele
Andrea Mantegna’s pseudo-Arabic and Pseudo-Kufic motifs, like those of other Italian painters, are usually said to have no meaning other than to evoke associations with the geographical region of Early ...
di: Charles Burroughs
If sounds unheard are sweeter, few sounds could be sweeter than those played by Apollo in Raphael’s painting Mount Parnassus in the Stanza della Segnatura, Pope Julius II’s study in ...
di: Lynette M.F. Bosch
Within the decade that followed Martin
Luther’s excommunication by Pope Leo X on January, 1521,[1]
it became clear to Europe’s Christians that the disruption of the Catholic
Church’s hegemony over Christianity was to ...