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Author | : INGRID. ALEXANDER-SKIPNES |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2024-04-22 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781032324944 |
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This volume explores the images of Alexander the Great during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, how they came about and why they were so popular. In contrast to the numerous studies on the historical and the legendary figure of Alexander, surprisingly few studies have examined the visual representation in one volume of the Macedonian king in frescoes, oil paintings, engravings, manuscripts, medals, sculpture and tapestries during the Renaissance. The book covers a broad geographical area and includes transalpine perspectives. Ingrid Alexander-Skipnes examines the role that humanists played in disseminating the stories about Alexander and explores why Alexander was so popular during the Renaissance. Alexander-Skipnes offers cultural, political, and social perspectives of the Macedonian king and shows how Renaissance artists and patrons viewed Alexander the Great. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, Renaissance studies, ancient Greek history, and classics.
Author | : Ingrid Alexander-Skipnes |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 2024-04-22 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1040016189 |
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This volume explores the images of Alexander the Great from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, how they came about, and why they were so popular. In contrast to the numerous studies on the historical and legendary figure of Alexander, surprisingly few studies have examined, in one volume, the visual representation of the Macedonian king in frescoes, oil paintings, engravings, manuscripts, medals, sculpture, and tapestries during the Renaissance. The book covers a broad geographical area and includes transalpine perspectives. Ingrid Alexander-Skipnes examines the role that humanists played in disseminating the stories about Alexander and explores why Alexander was so popular during the Renaissance. Alexander-Skipnes offers cultural, political, and social perspectives on the Macedonian king and shows how Renaissance artists and patrons viewed Alexander the Great. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, Renaissance studies, ancient Greek history, and classics.
Author | : Víctor Mínguez |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2023-12-01 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1003806775 |
Download The Visual Legacy of Alexander the Great from the Renaissance to the Age of Revolution Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This is an analysis of the diverse facets of Alexander the Great’s image from the Renaissance era through the Baroque into the nineteenth century. Perceived as the first sovereign ruler of the world, for centuries Alexander became an exemplar for the most ambitious kings and emperors. This cultural phenomenon flourished above all in the Renaissance while extending into the nineteenth century. Early modern monarchs’ identification with Alexander associated them with ideas of kingly wisdom. Yet this admiration waned on occasions. Napoleon was Alexander of Macedonia’s most ardent critic. During the nineteenth century, the Macedonian hero was viewed as an individual who won control of the Achaemenid empire, but also underwent a progressive moral decline that converted him into a tyrant. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history and iconography.
Author | : Claudia Daniotti |
Publisher | : Brepols Publishers |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9782503597430 |
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In this book Claudia Daniotti provides the first comprehensive study of the representation of Alexander the Great in Renaissance Italian art, exploring a fundamental turning point in the tradition: the transition from the medieval imagery of Alexander as a legendary, fairy-tale hero to the new historically grounded portrait of him as an example of moral virtue and military prowess. During the Middle Ages, Alexander was turned into a fabled creature and fearless explorer, whose Flight to Heaven and other marvellous adventures were tirelessly recounted and illustrated, enjoying huge popularity. With the humanist recovery of the ancient historical texts and the changing taste and expectations of the wider, wealthier and more diverse public of the courts and cities of the Italian peninsula, the fabulous aura that had surrounded Alexander for centuries evaporated. He was recast as the moral exemplum and valorous military commander spoken of by the newly available ancient historians, and became the protagonist of an unprecedently vast iconographic repertoire established in the course of the sixteenth century.By discussing a body of artworks from 1160s to 1560s spanning several media (from illuminated manuscripts and frescoes to sculptural reliefs, wedding chests and tapestries) and researching this material in constant dialogue with the literary tradition, this book offers a reassessment of the whole visual tradition of Alexander in Renaissance Italy, making sense of a figurative repertoire often perceived as fragmentary and disparate, and casting new light on an overall still neglected chapter in the tradition of the myth of Alexander.
Author | : Lucilla Burn |
Publisher | : Getty Publications |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Art, Hellenistic |
ISBN | : 9780892367764 |
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In this beautifully illustrated volume, Burn (Keeper of Antiquities, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge) introduces the Hellenistic world to students and readers interested in ancient Greek society. After a brief political and cultural overview, Burn identifies several distinctly Hellenistic artistic developments emerging in fourth-century Macedon. She then examines representations of royal and private individuals; the design, furnishing and appearances of cities, sanctuaries, houses and tombs; and the characteristic themes of Hellenistic iconography.
Author | : Jonathan James Graham Alexander |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : ART |
ISBN | : 9780300203981 |
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"Hand-painted illumination enlivened the burgeoning culture of the book in the Italian Renaissance, spanning the momentous shift from manuscript production to print. J. J. G. Alexander describes key illuminated manuscripts and printed books from the period and explores the social and material worlds in which they were produced. Renaissance humanism encouraged wealthy members of the laity to join the clergy as readers and book collectors. Illuminators responded to patrons' developing interest in classical motifs, and celebrated artists such as Mantegna and Perugino occasionally worked as illuminators. Italian illuminated books found patronage across Europe, their dispersion hastened by the French invasion of Italy at the end of the 15th century.--
Author | : Ada Cohen |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 425 |
Release | : 2010-08-30 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0521769043 |
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In her pursuit of metaphorical, transhistorical imagery, representing men as predators and women as their victims over the centuries, Cohen (Dartmouth) lays out a vast network of interpretive associations that have neither cultural nor chronological limits. Developing her analysis of three late-fourth-century BCE Macedonian monumental themes--the abduction of Helen, the lion hunt, and war--Cohen puts them into a context of large significance through her creation of an ingenious, erudite, and extended repertory of analogous images, accompanied by well-selected exempla. Her proposed network traces patterns established by anthropological perspectives of masculinity and its association with aggressive violence and by principles of feminist ideology, partly derived from Judith Butler. The book's introduction and many subsequent methodological digressions set out the conceptual lines of her approach, as do paradigmatic chapter headings, e.g., "War as Hunt: Hunt as War?" "Rape as Hunt: Hunt as Rape?" and "Rape as War: War as Rape?" Provocative indeed, her categories of enduring imagery challenge traditional views of ancient art in ways both beneficial and problematic, viz., her remark "Ovid, the premier Freudian thinker of the Roman World." Whether modern conceptions of sexuality and the struggles of contrasting genders pertain to antiquity remains as an acknowledged issue. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students through faculty/researchers. Graduate Students; Researchers/Faculty. Reviewed by R. Brilliant.
Author | : John Boardman |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 2021-06-15 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0691217440 |
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Alexander's defeat of the Persian Empire in 331 BC captured the popular imagination, inspiring an endless series of stories and representations that emerged shortly after his death and continues today. An art historian and archaeologist, Boardman draws on his deep knowledge of Alexander and the ancient world to reflect on the most interesting and emblematic depictions of this towering historical figure.0Some of the stories in this book relate to historical events associated with Alexander's military career and some to the fantasy that has been woven around him, and Boardman relates each with his customary verve and erudition. From Alexander's biographers in ancient Greece to the illustrated Alexander "Romances" of the Middle Ages to operas, films, and even modern cartoons, this generously illustrated volume takes readers on a fascinating cultural journey as it delivers a perfect pairing of subject and author.
Author | : Marian Wenzel |
Publisher | : Art Media Resources |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
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A collection of 63 beautiful stucco and terra-cotta heads of the Silk Route Portrait Collection, summarizing the best aspects of Gandharan vision of the Buddha's own tale. Heads in the present collection, dating mainly from the 3rd to the 5th centuries, were at their origin part of the ornamentation of Buddhist stupas - memorials to Buddha, celebrating his tale, and set up along the historic Silk Route, linking Central Asia with China in the east, and Byzantium in the west. With a foreword by the Dalai Lama.
Author | : Organismos Politistikēs Prōteuousas tēs Eyrōpēs "Thessalonikē 1997" |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Art, European |
ISBN | : |
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