Villas et palais de Rome
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A partir du XIVe siècle, Rome voit le nombre de ses palais s'accroître. Ils furent contruits par de prestigieux architectes tels que Michel Ange, Bramante, Sangallo, le Bernin et Fontana, et décorés par de célèbres peintres : Carrache, Salviati, Pierre de Cortone... La plupart de ces lieux renferment des oeuvres d'art de grande valeur : Raphaël, Titien, Corrège, Tintoret,(...)
Villas et palais de Rome
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A partir du XIVe siècle, Rome voit le nombre de ses palais s'accroître. Ils furent contruits par de prestigieux architectes tels que Michel Ange, Bramante, Sangallo, le Bernin et Fontana, et décorés par de célèbres peintres : Carrache, Salviati, Pierre de Cortone... La plupart de ces lieux renferment des oeuvres d'art de grande valeur : Raphaël, Titien, Corrège, Tintoret, Véronèse, etc.
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Palladio's Rome
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Andrea Palladio published two enormously popular guides to the churches and antiquities of Rome in 1554. Striving to be both scholarly and popular, Palladio invited his Renaissance readers to discover the charm of Rome’s ancient and medieval wonders, and to follow pilgrimage routes leading from one church to the next. He also described ancient Roman rituals of birth,(...)
Palladio's Rome
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Andrea Palladio published two enormously popular guides to the churches and antiquities of Rome in 1554. Striving to be both scholarly and popular, Palladio invited his Renaissance readers to discover the charm of Rome’s ancient and medieval wonders, and to follow pilgrimage routes leading from one church to the next. He also described ancient Roman rituals of birth, marriage, and death. Here translated into English and joined in a single volume, Palladio’s guidebooks allow modern visitors to enjoy Rome exactly as their predecessors did 450 years ago. Enhanced with illustrations and commentary, the book also includes the first full English translation of Raphael’s letter to Pope Leo X on the monuments of ancient Rome. For architectural historians, tourists, and armchair travelers, this book offers insights into the antiquarian and ecclesiastical preoccupations of one of the Renaissance architectural masters.
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The Colosseum
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The Colosseum describes how the arena was built and at what cost; we are introduced to the emperors who sometimes fought in gladiatorial games staged at the Colosseum; and we take measure of the audience who reveled in, or opposed, these games. The authors also trace the strange afterlife of the monument—as fortress, shrine of martyrs, church, and glue factory.
The Colosseum
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The Colosseum describes how the arena was built and at what cost; we are introduced to the emperors who sometimes fought in gladiatorial games staged at the Colosseum; and we take measure of the audience who reveled in, or opposed, these games. The authors also trace the strange afterlife of the monument—as fortress, shrine of martyrs, church, and glue factory.
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This the compelling story of fifteenth-century Venice, at that time the mercantile and cultural capital of the world. There, the first genuine publishing houses open for business leading to an explosion of the written word and an unprecedented diffusion of human knowledge. Among the innovators who are driving these new cultural enterprises, one remarkable visionary, Aldo(...)
Bound in Venice : the serene republic and the dawn
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This the compelling story of fifteenth-century Venice, at that time the mercantile and cultural capital of the world. There, the first genuine publishing houses open for business leading to an explosion of the written word and an unprecedented diffusion of human knowledge. Among the innovators who are driving these new cultural enterprises, one remarkable visionary, Aldo Manuzio, a man credited with inventing the figure of the modern publisher, stands head and shoulders above the rest. Manuzio will publish the first printed editions of the Talmud, the Koran, the works of Erasmus of Rotterdam, and classics of Greek and Latin poetry and theater, bringing about a true revolution and the birth of the modern.
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Praise for Venice
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The author explores all aspects of Venice’s achievements: the construction of its navy, its role as an economic powerhouse and birthplace of capitalism, its popularization of opera, the architecture of its watery environs, and more.
Praise for Venice
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The author explores all aspects of Venice’s achievements: the construction of its navy, its role as an economic powerhouse and birthplace of capitalism, its popularization of opera, the architecture of its watery environs, and more.
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Vues de près, les peintures antiques de la villa Adriana à Tivoli, les fresques de Raphaël au palais du Vatican, mais aussi celles de la galerie des Carrache dans le palais Farnèse, et tant d’autres, offrent un spectacle étonnant. Ce sont des œuvres striées de noms, de dates et même d’esquisses, très différentes des images lisses, intactes et éclatantes auxquelles les(...)
Graffitis: inscrire son nom à Rome (XVe-XIXe siècle)
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Vues de près, les peintures antiques de la villa Adriana à Tivoli, les fresques de Raphaël au palais du Vatican, mais aussi celles de la galerie des Carrache dans le palais Farnèse, et tant d’autres, offrent un spectacle étonnant. Ce sont des œuvres striées de noms, de dates et même d’esquisses, très différentes des images lisses, intactes et éclatantes auxquelles les livres d’art nous ont habitués. Les graffitis y sont omniprésents. Ils furent réalisés par des artistes parfois célèbres, au cours de leur période de formation à Rome, par des amateurs lors du Grand Tour, par des soldats ou des touristes de passage à Rome entre les XVIe et XIXe siècles. Ce livre invite à un autre regard sur l’art et son histoire : non pas esthétique mais archéologique ; un regard de biais, littéralement. Ainsi rendus à leur visibilité, les graffitis donnent à voir une autre histoire du chef-d’œuvre, matérielle, tactile et anthropologique.
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La Campanie, heureux séjour des dieux et des muses abandonné aux puissances infernales. Une terre de culture, une terre de sang mêlé, aux sources de la civilisation romaine. En 79 de notre ère, l'explosion du Vésuve a couvert d'un linceul de cendres cet écrin de nature lumineux et tranquille. À Pompei, ou le temps fut suspendu, le voyageur croit tout comprendre de la vie(...)
Pompéi et la campanie antique
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La Campanie, heureux séjour des dieux et des muses abandonné aux puissances infernales. Une terre de culture, une terre de sang mêlé, aux sources de la civilisation romaine. En 79 de notre ère, l'explosion du Vésuve a couvert d'un linceul de cendres cet écrin de nature lumineux et tranquille. À Pompei, ou le temps fut suspendu, le voyageur croit tout comprendre de la vie des Anciens. Mais pense-t-il à se garder des illusions? Ce guide l'invite à relire le quotidien de ces cites retrouvées.
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The virtual tourist in Renaissance Rome: printing and collecting the speculum romanae magnificentiae
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In 1540 Antonio Lafreri, a native of Besancon transplanted to Rome, began publishing maps and other printed images that depicted major monuments and antiquities in Rome. These prints - of statues and ruined landscapes, inscriptions and ornaments, reconstructed monuments and urban denizens - evoked ancient Rome and appealed to the taste for classical antiquity that defined(...)
The virtual tourist in Renaissance Rome: printing and collecting the speculum romanae magnificentiae
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In 1540 Antonio Lafreri, a native of Besancon transplanted to Rome, began publishing maps and other printed images that depicted major monuments and antiquities in Rome. These prints - of statues and ruined landscapes, inscriptions and ornaments, reconstructed monuments and urban denizens - evoked ancient Rome and appealed to the taste for classical antiquity that defined the Renaissance. \Collections of these prints came to be known as the "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae", the "Mirror of Roman Magnificence." Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the University of Chicago Library's "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae", the largest collection of its kind in the world, "The Virtual Tourist in Renaissance Rome" places these prints in their historical context and examines their publishing history. Editor Rebecca Zorach traces their journey from their creators and publishers to pilgrims, collectors, antiquarians, and dealers - "virtual tourists" who, over several centuries, revisited and reinvented the Renaissance image of Rome. A marvelous exploration of a rich collection of engravings and etchings, this illustrated volume will fascinate anyone interested in Renaissance Rome, the history of print collecting, the reception of antiquity, and tourism.
History until 1900, Italy
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This book brings to life the story of the construction of some of the most outstanding early Renaissance buildings in Venice. Through a series of individual case studies, Richard J. Goy explores how and why buildings came to be built. He addresses the practical issues of constructing such buildings as the Torre dell’Orologio in Piazza San Marco, the Arsenale Gate, and the(...)
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Building Renaissance Venice : patrons, architects and builders c. 1430-1500
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This book brings to life the story of the construction of some of the most outstanding early Renaissance buildings in Venice. Through a series of individual case studies, Richard J. Goy explores how and why buildings came to be built. He addresses the practical issues of constructing such buildings as the Torre dell’Orologio in Piazza San Marco, the Arsenale Gate, and the churches of Santa Maria della Carita and San Zaccaria, focusing particular attention on the process of patronage. The book traces the complete process of creating important buildings, from the earliest conception in the minds of the patrons—the Venetian state or other institutional patrons—through the choice of architect, the employment of craftsmen, and the selection of materials. In an interesting analysis of the participants’ roles, Goy highlights the emerging importance of the superintending master, the protomaestro.
History until 1900, Italy
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L'Europe actuelle est héritière de la Rome antique, cette mosaïque de nations unies par une même culture dans un territoire aussi vaste qu'il ne l'est aujourd'hui. La littérature, l'architecture, la peinture et la sculpture y ont été un langage commun, de l'Espagne à la Turquie, en passant par l'Afrique du Nord. Forum, aqueduc, amphithéâtre, villa romaine, où qu'ils se(...)
Rome et la naissance de l'art européen
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L'Europe actuelle est héritière de la Rome antique, cette mosaïque de nations unies par une même culture dans un territoire aussi vaste qu'il ne l'est aujourd'hui. La littérature, l'architecture, la peinture et la sculpture y ont été un langage commun, de l'Espagne à la Turquie, en passant par l'Afrique du Nord. Forum, aqueduc, amphithéâtre, villa romaine, où qu'ils se trouvent, traduisent cette cohérence et cette unité. Michel Meyer nous offre ici une synthèse sur l'art romain, la première en français depuis de nombreuses décennies. En apportant les preuves de sa grande originalité, il nous en propose une lecture philosophique, historique, esthétique, sociologique et politique, et nous aide à découvrir cette civilisation qui est l'ancêtre de la nôtre.
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