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Benvenuto Cellini’s Perseus and Medusa, one of Renaissance Italy’s most complex sculptures, is the subject of this study, which proposes that the statue’s
The Life of Benvenuto Cellini
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Categories: Art, Renaissance
Type: BOOK - Published: 1888 - Publisher: London : J.C. Nimmo

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The Paragone in Nineteenth-Century Art
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Pages: 470
Authors: Sarah J. Lippert
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-03-27 - Publisher: Routledge

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Offering an examination of the paragone, meaning artistic rivalry, in nineteenth-century France and England, this book considers how artists were impacted by pr
The Limits of Identity: Early Modern Venice, Dalmatia, and the Representation of Difference
Language: en
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Authors: Karen-edis Barzman
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This book considers the production of collective identity in Venice (Christian, civic-minded, anti-tyrannical), which turned on distinctions drawn in various fi
The Body of the Artisan
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Authors: Pamela H. Smith
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Since the time of Aristotle, the making of knowledge and the making of objects have generally been considered separate enterprises. Yet during the late sixteent