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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Italian Painting"”.
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<i>Cangianti</i> and Shot Silk: Material Influence on Artistic Practice in Central Italian Painting from 1300 to 1550
<p>In central Italian paintings from 1300 to 1550, “<em>cangianti</em>”—draperies modeled with two or more hues— have long been considered formal devices invented around the time of Giotto to compensate for a limited palette; rare instances of textural intent are thought to have occurred only …
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From Rio to Romola: Morality and Didacticism in the English Appreciation of Early Italian Art 1836-1863
… rise in interest in the earlier schools of Italian painting in the English art world during the 1840s. Over the course of this decade the study and collection of so-called 'primitive' painting was transformed from a marginal pursuit to an aspect of mainstream taste. The thesis defines the …
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Artemisia Gentileschi: a reconstructed assessment of her contribution to Caravaggesque tradition in Tuscany
… a major center of activity for Caravaggesque painting during the early Seicento, elements of Caravaggesque style nevertheless appear in the work of some Tuscan artists during the second and third decades. Stylistic sources for the assimilation of Caravaggesque tradition by these artists are …
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Correggio and the Sacred Image
… lyrical self-expression of the language of the Italian reform movements. A varied collection of voices, these currents of religious reform share an emphasis on achieving the ecstatic effects of authentic devotional feeling. The articulation of intense longing characteristic of this discourse …
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Italian Heroic Portraits in the Sixteenth Century
The dissertation is the first study of heroic portraiture in Italy in the sixteenth century. With the term heroic, which is presented and justified in the introduction to the thesis, I qualify independent portraits in all media in which the sitter is represented in the guise of a mythological, …
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Italian Renaissance Depictions of the Ottoman Sultan: Nuances in the Function of Early Modern Italian Portraiture
… way by an interest in the function of Italian Renaissance portraiture. The essential question is concerned with the expanded functional range of portraiture within the context of early modern cross-cultural engagement between traditional foes. The dissertation casts a spotlight on the …