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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Renaissance art"”.
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After the Renaissance: Art and Harlem in the 1960s
… the cultural movement he chronicled in Harlem a “renaissance”—a term that describes both the “rebirth” of Black people as modern subjects and the resulting artistic effluence. In so doing, he cemented the neighborhood’s indelible connection to racial progress and artistic experimentation. Even as …
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Jocus : a personification of folly and play and an attribute of carnal love in Renaissance art
… a virtually forgotten and unrecognised figure in Renaissance iconography today; yet this personification has a substantial history in both art and literature. This study recovers the iconographic tradition of Jocus, identifying its classical literary origins, and tracing its survival, development …
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Pilgrimage and Italian Renaissance Art: The Artistic Influence of the Cult of the Holy Girdle in Prato
The artistic and cultural importance 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 …
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DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI AND THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE: ENVISIONING AESTHETIC BEAUTY AND THE PAST THROUGH IMAGES OF WOMEN
… 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 Victorian …
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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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Collecting Renaissance Decorative Art in Britain 1850-1914
… between private and public collections of Renaissance decorative art in Britain 1850-1914, to establish the role that emerging networks of collectors, curators and dealers played in shaping the demand for Renaissance art objects and establishing the scholarly canon. It seeks to provide an …
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Effloresce
… serve as inspiration for this body of work, particularly the natural symbology found in Medieval and Renaissance Art. I employ painting techniques inspired by contemporary painters Alex Kanevsky, Mia Bergeron, Helene Delmaire, and Zoey Frank, as well as historical painters John Singer Sargent, …
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Can an Iconological Analysis of a Classic Period Vase (K1485) Further our Understanding of Ancient Maya Skyscapes?
This study applies Renaissance art historian Erwin Panofsky’s three phase methodology of iconographic analysis to the painting on the Classic period Maya vase (K1485), referred to here as ‘The Vase of the Count of Days’, to investigate and identify potential cosmological or celestial content and, …
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The Immanent Body: A Thematic Study of the Logic of Immanence in Christology, Philosophy and Aesthetics
… depictions of monastic bodies in late medieval, Renaissance and contemporary art.</p> <p>I. The thesis of this dissertation can be stated as follows: the conditions under which immanence is thinkable in relation to bodies are found in conceptual personae. Contemporary philosopher Gilles Deleuze's …
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Beyond painting : Carlo Crivelli’s celestial fictions
… 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 boundary between …
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Eve and the Madonna in Victorian Art
… subject pictures, a category of Victorian art that remains arguably under-researched. Nineteenth-century religious art was rooted in a Romantic sensibility and was invested with the purpose of providing a balm during a course, commercial industrial age, which, like the Enlightenment that …
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Painting, performance, senses, and space: immersing the viewer in the Last Supper refectory frescoes of fifteenth-century Florence
… (or dining hall) through compositional changes, particularly with his Last Supper at the convent of Ognissanti (c. 1480-1481), that marked an important pivot in the presentation of this familiar iconography by demonstrating a greater awareness of and engagement with the viewer. These pictorial …
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From Cyprus to Venice: Art, Exchange and Exile across the Renaissance Mediterranean
… between icon painting and up-to-date Italian artworks. Arranged in the form of microhistories, the present work discusses how the insular nobles negotiated their identity between the two centres during the early modern period. In Renaissance Venice, where they strove to be associated with the …
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Artists as Tricksters: Resourceful Artists of the German Renaissance
… deliberately cultivated by many German and Swiss artists of the early sixteenth century, who invented pictorial tricks or parodied traditional iconography to contrive scandals and disorient their audiences. This dissertation draws upon this cultural and social phenomenon of the trickster to …
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"You Are Safe": Black Maternal Politics Of Resistance And The Question Of Community Consensus In African American Women's Literature
… is offered in a most provocative and startling way given the choice of maternal infanticide to make the claims.</p> <p>Angelina Weld Grimke's "The Closing Door" (1919), Georgia Douglas Johnson's Safe (c.1929), Shirley Graham's It's Morning (c. 1938-1940), and Toni Morrison's Beloved …
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Potential output and sources of economic growth: Korea 1962-1968
… the author, marks Arnolfo as one of the seminal artists of this period. Arnolfo’s sculpture may be characterized by its blocky forms and its monumentality, despite the fact that much of his sculpture is less than three feet in height. Arnolfo combines a sense of classical form, derived from …
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Arnolfo di Cambio: sculpture
… the author, marks Arnolfo as one of the seminal artists of this period. Arnolfo’s sculpture may be characterized by its blocky forms and its monumentality, despite the fact that much of his sculpture is less than three feet in height. Arnolfo combines a sense of classical form, derived from …
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Artistic Achievements of Convent Women in Renaissance Italy: with case studies in Venice and Prato
This thesis evaluates the artistic contributions of convent women in Renaissance Italy during the period c. 1450-1550 with individual case studies in Venice and Prato. As the cost of the traditional marriage dowry inflated markedly over the course of the fifteenth century, an increasing number of …
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Globalizing Kenyan Culture: Jua Kali & the Transformation of Contemporary Kenyan Art: 1960-2010
… to refer to the phenomenon as an African Renaissance. This is particularly the case in Kenya where a contemporary art movement is flourishing through both local and global art networks. But the question remains: how in the midst of poverty and political instability can there be so much …
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Melancholy Figures: From Bosch to Titian
… expressed, and, most importantly, figured by Renaissance artists. By focusing on the figural pose traditionally associated with the melancholic state and humor, it presents a hitherto unexplored connection between Northern and Southern Europe, considering the different ways in which artists …
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