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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Early Modern Art"”.
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Beyond painting : Carlo Crivelli’s celestial fictions
… Crivelli (c.1430/5- 94/5) among historians of early modern art. With his combination of traditional techniques, such as the gold ground, and witty effects of pictorial illusion, Crivelli’s work makes an effective case study for revisionist methods in art history, demonstrating the fluid …
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Bernini as the Seicento Michelangelo: Imitation and Identity in Art, Architecture and Biography
… Seicento Michelangelo: Imitation and Identity in Art, Architecture and Biography Carolina Mangone Doctor of Philosophy, History of Art Department of Art University of Toronto 2012 Abstract This dissertation examines how Gianlorenzo Bernini (1598-1680), acclaimed the “Michelangelo of his age,” …
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Bernardino Licinio: Portraiture, Kinship and Community in Renaissance Venice
… and headed a prosperous family workshop. Yet the artist is largely denied importance within the current art historical narrative, being conceived as “minor,” “provincial” or “second-rate.” My dissertation questions the “constructedness” of historical identities and presents the first nuanced …
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Visualising, Perceiving, and Interpreting Smell in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art
This thesis explores the ways in which artworks described invisible scents, how the depicted scents were perceived, and what interpretations and meanings they held. As research into representations of the olfactory is a relatively novel approach in the History of Art, this thesis proposes a …
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Dynamic Interiors: The Art and Architecture of Liminal and Transitional Spaces in Florence’s Early Modern Palazzi
This thesis investigates the relationship between art, space and life inside Florence’s early modern palazzi. To explore this intersection, it focuses on four liminal and transitional zones within the elite domestic interior: the staircase and the doorway, which might be defined as universal …
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Dynamic Interiors: The Art and Architecture of Liminal and Transitional Spaces in Florence’s Early Modern Palazzi
This thesis investigates the relationship between art, space and life inside Florence’s early modern palazzi. To explore this intersection, it focuses on four liminal and transitional zones within the elite domestic interior: the staircase and the doorway, which might be defined as universal …
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Material Prayers: The Use of Text in Early Modern Italian Domestic Devotions
While scholarship often focuses on how early modern Italians used images in their devotions, particularly in the post-Tridentine era, little attention has been placed upon how laypeople engaged with devotional text during times of prayer and in their everyday lives. Studies of early modern …