Italian Backgrounds
Author | : Edith Wharton |
Publisher | : London : Cape |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1905 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Edith Wharton |
Publisher | : London : Cape |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1905 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Edith Wharton |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2015-09-27 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781440085314 |
Excerpt from Italian Backgrounds It is not easy, in the height of the Swiss season, to light on a nook neglected by the tourist; but at Spliigen he still sweeps by in a cloud of diligence dust, or pauses only to gulp a flask of Paradiso and a rosy trout from the Suretta lakes. One's en J oyment of the place is thus enhanced by the pleasing spec tacle of the misguided hundreds who pass it by, and from the vantage of the solitary meadows above the village one may watch the throngs descending on Thusis or Chiavenna with something of the satisfac tion that mediaeval schoolmen believed to be the por tion of angels looking down upon the damned. Spliigen abounds in such points of observation. On all sides one may climb from the alder-f ringed shores of the Rhine, through larch-thickets tremulous with the leap of water, to grassy levels far above, whence the valley is seen lengthening southward to a great concourse of peaks. In the morning these upper meadows are hot and bright, and one is glad of the red-aisled pines and the onyx-coloured torrents cool ing the dusk; but toward sunset, when the shadows make the slopes of turf look like an expanse ofwatching the sun recede from the valley, where mow ers are still sweeping the grass into long curved lines like ridges of the sea, while the pine-woods on the eastern slopes grow black and the upper snows fade to the colour of cold ashes. The landscape is simple, spacious and serene. The fields suggest the tranquil rumination of gen erations of cattle, the woods off er cool security to sylvan life, the mountains present blunt weather beaten surfaces rather than the subtle contours. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : Mary Berenson |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 2017-11-27 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780331289343 |
Excerpt from A Tentative List of Italian Pictures Worth Seeing About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : Samuel Manning |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2018-02-05 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9780267823000 |
Excerpt from Italian Pictures, Drawn With Pen and Pencil Way, or dashed through the Porta del Popolo, and rattled along the Corso. However imposing the scenery through which a railway runs, there is no. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : Emma Gurney-Salter |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 430 |
Release | : 2015-07-06 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781330792193 |
Excerpt from Nature in Italian Art: A Study of Landscape Backgrounds, From Giotto to Tintoretto The treatment of Nature by the Medieval and Renaissance painters of Italy has for the most part been considered as merely accessory to their figure-subjects;its distinctive merits have thus been insufficiently appreciated. The object of the present book is to show that there existed from the thirteenth century an attempt to study Nature for her own sake, tracing the development of landscape from the summary conventions of Giotto and his followers to its magnificent culmination in the Venetian School. The pictures discussed are typical examples of the various masters, attention being throughout concentrated on their landscape setting; Nature is taken to include flowers and beasts. Chronology is observed wherever possible, although a certain amount of overlapping is inevitable in passing from one School to another. The Venetians have been reserved for the later chapters, and are there treated consecutively. I have endeavoured to acknowledge ideas and attributions taken from critics of Italian painting, foremost among whom one must mention Mr. Berenson. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : Charles Dickens |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2017-09-18 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781528286718 |
Excerpt from Pictures From Italy There is, probably, not a famous Picture or Statue in all Italy, but could be easily buried under a mountain of printed paper devoted to dissertations on it. I do not, therefore, though an earnest admirer Of Painting and Sculpture, expatiate at any length on famous Pictures and Statues. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : Helen Zimmern |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 2018-03-23 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780365134688 |
Excerpt from The Italy of the Italians Biagi, and Mr. George Gregory Smith. I also acknowledge the permission accorded by the editors of the conduil Magazine and the Fortnightly Review to reprint portions of my own articles. My aflectionate thanks are also due to my cousin, Mr. Alfred E. Zimmern, of New College, Oxford, for kind. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : Frances Haberly-Robertson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2015-07-01 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781330532331 |
Excerpt from Famous Italian Pictures and Their Story: With Sketch of the Artists About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : Ashton Rollins Willard |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 782 |
Release | : 2018-03-20 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780365079637 |
Excerpt from History of Modern Italian Art IN writing this book I trust that I have not taken a wholly one-sided view of my subject. I certainly have not been conscious of any wish either to de monstrate that the art-work of the period under con sideration was wholly good or that it was wholly bad. At the beginning I shared the feeling which we all have to some extent, that modern Italian art was degenerate, far removed in its standards and in its results from the art of the best period; but much study of the subject has led me to alter that view very materially. No one could have followed my line of work, step by step, without becoming convinced that the common feeling, to which I have alluded, was based to a certain extent upon prejudice and lack of information, and that a more generous attitude ought to be taken toward the men who, in the face of many discouragements, have so bravely struggled to redeem the art of the peninsula from the reproach which has been cast upon it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : Edith Wharton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1940 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |