Rowland, The Culture of the High Renaissance
Between 1480 and 1520, a concentration of talented artists, including Melozzo da Forlì, Bramante, Pinturicchio, Raphael, and Michelangelo, arrived in Rome and produced ...
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A treatise on ancient painting, containing observations on the rise, progress, and decline of that art amongst the Greeks and Romans; the high ...
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Pierre de la Ruffinière du Prey traces the influence of Pliny the Younger as a continuous theme throughout the history of architecture. First ...
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Preimesberger, Paragons And Paragone
The paragone―the notion of competition and rivalry among the arts―has been a topic of debate for centuries. It erupted with great force in ...
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With the aid of over 180 photographs, this book studies what unites and separates sculptors across the centuries. It looks at the masters ...
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In seeing printed reproductions as a form of response to Michelangelo’s work, Bernadine Barnes focuses on the choices that printmakers and publishers made ...
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