‎Levey, Michael‎
‎Early Renaissance‎

‎Politics of Exclusion in Early Renaissance Florence ,‎

‎Turnhout, Brepols, 2007 Hardback, XIV+298 p., 160 x 240 mm. ISBN 9782503523897.‎

‎No previous work has examined political exclusion in Early Renaissance Florence or its significance for the transition from Florentine popular government to oligarchy. Between the fourteenth and the first half of the fifteenth century, political exclusion became a normal feature of political life, regardless of the type of political regime; it was an essential instrument by which new governments consolidated their control over the city and the countryside in one of the largest and most powerful cities of Early Renaissance Europe. Exclusion from the Republic of Florence... separation from friends and family, business and property, coupled with the degradation of public humiliation... engendered a new outlook on life. In Early Renaissance Florence, excluded citizens across social classes became common outlaws, no different for common criminals prosecuted for heresy, blasphemy, gambling, or sexual deviance. By investigating these practices and attitudes of Early Renaissance Florence, this book shows the dark side of Renaissance republicanism: its fear of political dissent in any form and its means to crush it at all costs. This study of the other side of Renaissance republicanism presents a new and crucial chapter in Renaissance history. Languages : English. ‎

‎GIOTTO TO DURER. EARLY RENAISSANCE PAINTING IN THE NATIONAL GALLERY,‎

‎London, Yale University Press/ National Gallery Publications, 1991 Illustrated cardboard cover in colour, 240 x 280mm., 408pp., profoundly illustrated in colour and b/w. . ISBN 0300050828.‎

‎This book provides a survey of European painting between 1260 and 1510, in both northern and southern Europe, based largely on the National Gallery collection, and is at the same time a guide to the paintings in the Gallery. It is published to coincide with the opening of the Sainsbury Wing in which the Early Renaissance collection will be exhibited. The authors explain the background of religious belief and devotional practice for which many of the paintings were created, and the secular requirements and ambitions which influenced them. They discuss the social context in which art was created and then displayed in the street, the palace or the church; and consider the role of the patron and the dealer. They describe the artist's workshop, consider the role of apprentices and assistance, discuss the influence of guilds and courts and explore the reasons for the introduction of new subjects and techniques and also the survival of traditions. The book goes on to supply an account of the materials and techniques of the early Renaissance artist. Good condition.‎

‎Music in the Art of Renaissance Italy, 1420?1540 Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History‎

‎, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2020 Hardback IV+408 pages ., 227 colour ill., 220 x 280 mm. Languages: English. ISBN 9781912554027.‎

‎The first detailed survey of the representation of music in the art of Renaissance Italy, opening up new vistas within the social and culture history of Italian music and art in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Visual representations of music were ubiquitous in Renaissance Italy. Church interiors were enlivened by altarpieces representing biblical and heavenly musicians, placed in conjunction with the ritual song of the liturgy. The interior spaces of palaces and private houses, in which musical recreations were routine, were adorned with paintings depicting musical characters and myths of the ancient world, and with scenes of contemporary festivity in which music played a central role. Musical luminaries and dilettantes commissioned portraits symbolising their personal and social investment in musical expertise and skill. Such visual representations of music both reflected and sustained a musical culture. The strategies adopted by visual artists when depicting music in any guise betray period understandings of music shared by artists and their clients. At the same time, Renaissance Italians experienced music within a visual environment that prompted them to think about music in particular ways. This book offers the first detailed survey of the representation of music in the art of Renaissance Italy, and in the process opens up new vistas within the social and cultural history of Italian Renaissance music and art. The authors formed the team for the three-year project 'Music in the Art of Renaissance Italy, c.1420-1540' at the University of Sheffield, funded by The Leverhulme Trust. Tim Shephard is Senior Lecturer in Musicology at the University of Sheffield and a specialist in music, art and identity at the Italian Renaissance courts. Sanna Raninen is a musicologist interested in the visual and material culture of music in Renaissance Europe. Serenella Sessini is an art historian specialising in Italian domestic art. Laura Stefanescu is an art historian working on Italian Renaissance art from the perspective of sensory perception and religious experience. Table of Contents Preface 0. Introduction 1. Convergence 1.1 Sister Arts? 1.2 Corporeal and Spiritual Senses 1.3 Perspectiva, Harmony, and Beauty 1.4 Istoria, Ethics, and Imitation 1.5 Leonardo and the Paragone 2. Divine Harmonies 2.1 Angels as Musicians2.2 Heaven on Earth 2.3 Returning to Heaven2.4 Angels in the Home 2.5 David and Christ3. Classicisms3.1 Music Among the Liberal Arts3.2 Apollo and the Muses 3.3 Orpheus the Orator3.4 Marsyas and Midas3.5 Bacchus and the Art of Noise4. People 4.1 In the Garden of Venus4.2 Harmonious Marriage4.3 Singing Shepherds4.4 Musica Triumphans 4.5 Portraits 4.6 Ensembles Epilogue Bibliography Review The fruit of a sustained and cutting-edge interdisciplinary collaboration among musicologists and art historians, this book reopens unresolved issues regarding the relationship between music and the visual arts, from both sides. The authors astute analysis and ability to connect a vast array of materials and concepts." Giovanni Zanovello, Indiana University "This richly detailed, wide-ranging book provides a valuable and evocative account of the relationships between musical and visual cultures in Renaissance Italy." Flora Dennis, University of Sussex ‎

‎Butch Albrecht. Book ornament of the Early Renaissance. In Russian (ask us if in doubt)./Butch Al'brekht. Knizhnyy orn‎

‎Butch Albrecht. Book ornament of the Early Renaissance. In Russian (ask us if in doubt)./Butch Al'brekht. Knizhnyy ornament rannego Vozrozhdeniya. T. 2. Text of it (A. F. Butsch. Bucherornamentik der (Fruh) Renaissance) Leipzig Hirt (G. Hirth) 1880. 56 c. SKUalbaddeccf731ecc475.‎

‎Catalogue of an exhibition of early Renaissance paintings. In Russian (ask us if‎

‎"Catalogue of an exhibition of early Renaissance paintings. In Russian (ask us if in doubt)/Katalog vystavki kartin rannego Vozrozhdeniya. in Italy. State Hermitage; Introductory article by Alexander Benoit. St. Petersburg Committee for the Popularization of Art Publications under the Russian Academy of the History of Material Culture. 1922. 32 p., 20x15 sm. SKUalb2f0a92fc5ba9aecd."‎