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Design for a residence in the Italian Renaissance style
Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1912.
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Power and Punishment: Architecture and Violence in the Italian Renaissance
The traditional narrative of a humanistic Renaissance, with its tropes of classical ornament, courtly manners, and artistic geniuses, has clouded the study of Italian Renaissance architecture. Over the course of three chapters, this dissertation challenges this narrative, reexamining the city, …
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Pietro Perugino (1450-1523) and the Practice of Reuse: Redefining Imitazione in the Italian Renaissance
Pietro Perugino's oeuvre is characterized by the reappearance of figures and motifs replicated through the reuse of cartoons. Perugino's deliberate self-plagiarism, despite being rooted in quattrocento compositional methods, exhibits an exploitation of the reproductive nature of the cartoon. While …
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The Influence of Italian Renaissance Civilization in Fifteenth Century Spain: A Study in Cultural Transmission
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-09T18:01:25Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7021057.pdf: 10322239 bytes, checksum: 8f7e5f10e23cf534eb5db542f185b73a (MD5) Previous issue date: 1970
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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 …
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Pilgrimage and Italian Renaissance Art: The Artistic Influence of the Cult of the Holy Girdle in Prato
… of pilgrimage has been treated peripherally in Italian Renaissance scholarship. The perception of pilgrimage as a fervent and backward religious practice does not generally concur with the understanding of the Italian Renaissance as a period of intellectual progress. My study attempts to …
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DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI AND THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE: ENVISIONING AESTHETIC BEAUTY AND THE PAST THROUGH IMAGES OF WOMEN
… Rossetti’s knowledge and interpretation of the Italian Renaissance during the 1860s. I argue that there is a relationship between Rossetti’s Aestheticism and his understanding of the Italian Renaissance and that this relationship is visibly manifested in his images of women from the period. In …
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Two Weeks to the Italian Renaissance: A Guided Tour of the Painting, Sculpture, and Architechture of Italy
… Marin Catholic High School, who, as part of the Italian language program, take academic educational trips to Italy every two years. The guidebook has been created to serve as a reference for the painting, sculpture, and architecture that the students will study while on their tour. The guide is …
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Power, Gender, and Representation in the Italian Renaissance Court: The Cultural Patronage of Caterina Sforza (1463--1509)
… so important to the power negotiations of the Renaissance court. Furthermore, it provides a study of the cultural practices of a newly-established dynasty, namely the Riario of Imola and Forli.
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"Aspects of Renaissance Influence in Selected Movements of Morten Lauridsen's ""Madrigali: Six 'Fire Songs' on Italian Renaissance Poems"" and ""Lux Aeterna"""
In these cycles he incorporates obvious musical devices such as chromaticism, cross-relations, canon, paired duets, cantus firmus, chant-like melodic writing, Augenmusik, abruptio, and imitation that are historical techniques generally associated with the aforementioned composers. Although he does …
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La mandragola
… work—as both a theatre director and a student of Italian Renaissance literature—has proven otherwise. In particular, Sices’s translation of La Mandragola (titled The Mandrake in his edition) plays upon a misguided image of Machiavelli the villain, a stereotype that has plagued Italian Renaissance …
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Reanimating the Renaissance: Aesthetes and Art History, 1873-1914
This thesis examines responses to the Italian Renaissance by aesthetes in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. It argues that aesthetes ‘reanimated’ the renaissance across diverse genres and media by negotiating the boundaries between art and life. Moving away from a discourse-centred …
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Don't Fall in Love: Designing Costumes for Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
… include historical fashion of the early Italian Renaissance, the challenges of working with costume rental companies, and the collaborative nature of costume construction. The author will reflect on the struggles and successes of her contribution to the production.
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Through The Eyes Of A Renaissance Prophet: Fra Girolamo Savonaorla And The Compendium Of Revelation
… of Revelations and evaluate it as a work of the Italian Renaissance. It conducts such an examination and reaches the conclusion that Savonarola should be used as an example of a figure who, like the age of the Renaissance itself, represented a significant break with the medieval world while still …
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Expert/novice Differences in Artistic Style Recognition (Categorization, Skill, Art, Expertise)
… were found. In a multidimensional study using Italian Renaissance and Mannerist paintings as stimuli, experts used complex organizational dimensions of STYLE and COMPOSITION whereas novices used lower level concepts like NUMBER OF FIGURES, REALISM, and BACKGROUND/DETAIL. Multidimensional …
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A Fragile Balance: The Venetian Glass Industry in Cross-Cultural Artisitic Exchange with the Islamic World
… glass which conveyed designs from contemporary Italian Renaissance culture yet still drew motifs from Islamic art. The dynamic relationships Venice forged with its Islamic trading partners provided Venice with both wealth and cross-cultural awareness.</p>
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Of Her Substance: Dress and Fecundity in Renaissance Painting
… femininity. This dissertation centers a common Italian Renaissance female dress shape, a forward swell of skirts above the womb, usually mistaken by beholders as a visual indication of pregnancy. I term this silhouette gravid dress. I examine how early modern dress illustrated and tailored …
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Rogier van der Weyden: A Netherlandish Artist and the Ferrarese Court
Northern European and Italian Renaissance art have tended to be treated art historically as two opposing styles. Rooted in statements by artists such as Michelangelo and Leon Battista Alberti, it has become a common misconception that Italians did not hold Northern European art in high regard …
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