Название: Renaissance Art (Art of Century Collection)
Автор: Victoria Charles
Издательство: Parkstone
Год: 2007
Страниц: 200
Язык: English
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 58 MB

The Renaissance began at the end of the 14th century in Italy and had extended across the whole of Europe by the second half of the 16th century. The rediscovery of the splendour of ancient Greece and Rome marked the beginning of the rebirth of the arts following the break down of the dogmatic certitude of the Middle Ages. A number of artists began to innovate in the domains of painting, sculpture and architecture. Depicting the ideal and the actual, the sacred and the profane, the period provided a frame of reference which influenced European art over the next four centuries. Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Botticelli, Fra Angelico, Giorgione, Mantegna, Raphael, Durer and Bruegel are among the artists who made considerable contributions to the art of the Renaissance.

Название: Byzantine Art (Art of Century Collection)
Автор: Charles Bayet
Издательство: Parkstone International
Год: 2009
Страниц: 200
Язык: English
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 95 MB

For more than a millennium, from its creation in 330 A.D. until its fall in 1453, the Byzantine Empire was a cradle of artistic effervescence that we are only beginning to rediscover. Endowed with the rich heritage of Roman, Eastern and Christian cultures, Byzantine artists developed an architectural and pictorial tradition, marked by symbolism, whose influence extended far beyond the borders of the Empire. Today, Italy, Northern Africa, and the Near East preserve the vestiges of this sophisticated artistic tradition, with all of its mystical and luminous beauty. The magnificence of the palaces, churches, paintings, enamels, ceramics and mosaics from this civilisation guarantees Byzantine art's powerful influence and timelessness.

Название: Мертвецы и русалки. Очерки славянской мифологии
Автор: Дмитрий Зеленин
Издательство: Эксмо
Год: 2024
Формат: pdf, fb2
Страниц: 452
Размер: 16,38 Мб
Язык: русский

Как много вы знаете о русалках? Знаете ли вы, кто такие купалки, водяницы, чертовки и шутовки? А знаете ли вы, как русалки связаны с покойниками? Дмитрий Зеленин (1878—1954), советский этнограф, в «Очерках славянской мифологии» изучает эти вопросы, обращаясь к верованиям и обрядным практикам восточных славян.

Название: Этнографический сборник, издаваемый Императорским Русским географическим обществом. Вып. 1-6
Автор: сборник
Издательство: в тип. МВД, тип. Праца
Год: 1853-1864
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 392+284+294+336+734+778
Размер: 281.85 MB+148.36 MB+201.46 MB+173.51 MB+535.92 MB+435.25 MB
Язык: русский

Сборники содержат этнографическое описание разных местностей бывшей Российской империи

Название: American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915
Авторы: B. Robertson, C. Barratt, H. Weinberg, M. Conrads
Издательство: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Год: 2009
Страниц: 242
Язык: English
Формат: PDF HQ
Размер: 211 MB

Accompanying a major exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915 presents nearly two hundred extraordinary pictures that tell stories of ordinary people engaged in commonplace tasks and pleasures. The first overview of the subject in thirty-five years, this richly illustrated volume features masterpieces by John Singleton Copley, Charles Willson Peale, William Sidney Mount, George Caleb Bingham, Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, John Singer Sargent, Mary Cassatt, John Sloan, and George Bellows, as well as notable examples by some of their key colleagues. These artists captured the temperament of their respective eras, describing and defining in their best works the character of Americans as individuals, citizens, and members of ever-widening communities from the decade before the Revolution to the eve of World War I. The authors—all distinguished curators and scholars—look at how painters told stories through their selections of settings, players, and action, and various narrative devices. They also consider the artists' responses to foreign prototypes, travel and training, changing exhibition venues, and audience expectations. The persistence of certain themes—childhood, marriage, the family, and the community; the attainment and reinforcement of citizenship; attitudes toward race; the frontier as reality and myth; and the process and meaning of making art—underscores evolving styles and standards of storytelling.

Название: American Realism (Temporis Collection)
Автор: Gerry Souter
Издательство: Parkstone International Publishing
Год: 2009
Страниц: 256
Язык: English
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 63 MB

The unconventional movement of American Realism allowed artists to break free from the established traditions of art in America and enabled the birth of a true national artistic identity. Through detailed descriptions of both the strong personalities and the artistic exchanges marking this movement, Souter shows the reader how these artists radically altered the art of their time and forever impacted the history of art. Urban realism, snow-covered streets of New York, boxing matches, children on the banks of a river, the painters of the Ash Can School preferred realistic images. Their paintings are a true hymn to noise and sensations. This unconventional movement enabled the birth of a true national artistic identity which broke free from the establishment. The Ash Can School resolutely promoted the affirmation of the modernist current of American art. Edward Hopper, who was a student of Robert Henri, embraced the principles of this movement and brought them to another level.

Название: Cameo Appearances
Автор: James David Draper
Издательство: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Год: 2008
Страниц: 58
Язык: English
Формат: PDF
Размер: 31 МВ

The engraving of hardstones is a time-honored practice that goes back several millennia. The Greeks refined the art, and they introduced in about the fifth century b.c. what we now call cameos: precious and semiprecious stones carved in projected relief. As fanciful curiosities and as miraculous unions of art and nature, cameos have been prized and collected since ancient times. This book presents a selection of more than one hundred magnificently carved gems from the unparalleled collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The text traces the origins of cameos in classical antiquity, their rare occurrences in the Middle Ages, their efflorescence from the 16th to the 19th century, and their spread to the New World.

Название: Byzantium and the West: Jewelry in the First Millennium
Автор: Jeffrey Spier
Издательство: Paul Holberton publishing
Год: 2012
Страниц: 208
Язык: English
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 16 MB

This book is the second in a series we envision on medieval and Renaissance jewelry. The first “Toward an Art History of Medieval Rings” presented rings from c. 300 to c. 1600 A.D., spanning the period of late Antiquity to the beginnings of the Baroque. It placed most major types of rings in their art-historical context with comparisons to works of art in other media. Subsequent books, this one included, will explore specific themes within this time period. We have selected the theme “Byzantium and the West” in part because it focuses on cultural exchange in the pre-medieval era, on the phenomena of continuity and change. There is to date no comprehensive survey of Byzantine jewelry; see, however, the catalogues of Ross (2005) and the survey by Baldini Lippolis (1999). The study of Merovingian jewelry benefits from the excellent work by Hadjadj (2008). However, little has been done on the relationships between Byzantium and the West.

Название: Вначале было тело
Автор(ы): Мислер Н.
Издательство: Искусство-XXI век
Год: 2011
Страниц: 448
Формат: DJVU
Размер: 20 Мб
Язык: русский

Эта необычная книга посвящена малоизвестному пласту русской культуры 20-х годов прошлого века - поискам и находкам в сфере искусства движения, пластики, современного танца. Опьянение свободой в первые послереволюционные годы породило много интересных и неожиданных достижений в разных областях искусства - это коснулось и возникновения в России Нового танца с его культом тела, жеста, позы… Это был подлинный синтез искусств, гармоничное взаимодействие живописи, литературы и музыки.

Название: Как читать книги?
Автор: Вирджиния Вулф
Издательство: Азбука
Год: 2025
Формат: pdf, djvu, fb2, mobi
Страниц: 274
Размер: 10.6 Мб
Язык: русский

Литературный экспериментатор, Вулф уделяет большое внимание осмыслению теоретических основ писательского мастерства вообще и собственного авангардного творчества в частности. В настоящее издание вошли ее знаменитые критические эссе, в том числе самое крупное и известное из них – «Своя комната», блестящее рассуждение о грандиозной роли повседневного быта в творческом процессе. В этом и других нехудожественных сочинениях Вирджинии Вулф и теперь поражают глубоко личный взгляд писательницы и поразительная свежесть ее рассуждений о природе литературного мастерства и читательского интереса.