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‎Mermaids of Venice. Fantastic Sea Creatures in Venetian Renaissance Art‎

‎, Brepols, 2010 Hardback, VIII 273 p., 234 b/w ill. 44 colour ill., 220 x 275 mm, Languages: English. ISBN 9781905375455.‎

‎The arts of Renaissance Venice teem with sea monsters. Chief among these are mermaids and mermen--graceful hybrid beings human from the waist up, but with the lower body and tail of a fish, dolphin or sea serpent. Other sea hybrids--horses, bulls, panthers, even an elephant--also swim through Venetian art in finned and fish-tailed forms. Such creatures emerge from stone in the shadowy churches and the sunlit courtyard of the Palazzo Ducale, crown the wooden frame of a Giovanni Bellini altarpiece, and encircle the bronze flagpole bases in Piazza San Marco. Their gilded sugar apparitions graced banquet tables for illustrious visitors, and their descendents still glide through the canals in the form of brass seahorses set above the sides of gondolas This book focuses on the conceptions of artists who made marine hybrids as some of the most engaging inventions of the Renaissance in Venice and its subject city Padua. The chapters deal with five functional contexts: book decoration of the 1470s and 80s; tomb monuments of the 1480s and 90s; church decoration of the same years, particularly at Santa Maria dei Miracoli; centers of political activity, including civic settings in Venice and the palaces of powerful mainland employers of Venetian artists; and finally, private homes, where owners could hold small bronze sea hybrids in their hands, often as objects for use. A prologue introduces the ?heritage of monsters? from the ancient and medieval worlds, the better to show how Venetian artists adapted these to new purposes. Exploring the ways in which artists could interpret and contemporary viewers might experience these wide-ranging sea-creatures, the book brings their best images together as a source of delight. Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History(HMSAH 58)‎

‎Comment regarder les monstres et créatures fantastiques.‎

‎Apparues dès les origines de l’art, les figures de l’étrange et de la monstruosité ont composé un répertoire inépuisable, riche de toutes sortes de significations et à l’origine de multiples spéculations. Ce livre est centré sur l’iconographie des monstres et des êtres fabuleux de l’art occidental, les variantes et les réemplois, les filiations et les mutations dont ils ont pu faire l’objet, depuis la mythologie gréco-romaine jusqu’à aujourd’hui. Il brasse toutes les formes d’expression qui ont traité du sujet, des arts graphiques à l’art multimédia, en passant par la peinture, la sculpture, la photographie et les arts décoratifs.<br data-mce-fragment="1"> <br data-mce-fragment="1">Le premier chapitre est consacré aux monstres que l’Antiquité classique a légués à la culture occidentale. Puis viennent les créatures maléfiques : visions cocasses ou répugnantes de l’imaginaire médiéval frappées par la christianisation du sceau de la damnation, du diabolique et du péché. Le troisième chapitre illustre comment les monstres tirés des mythes et des légendes furent intégrés à l’histoire naturelle. Le chapitre suivant interroge le corps humain comme vecteur du sensationnel, de l’effroyable et du scandaleux. Avant que la tératologie ne se constitue en tant que science, la distinction entre les monstres biologiques et les créatures mythologiques ou fantastiques n’était pas entièrement acquise. L’ouvrage se clôt sur l’exploitation des phénomènes monstrueux par le monde du spectacle.<br data-mce-fragment="1"> Paris, 2011 Hazan 384 p., broché. 13,5 x 20‎

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‎Ryabov V. Russian mythical creatures. In Russian /Ryabov V. Russkie mificheskie‎

‎Ryabov V. Russian mythical creatures. In Russian /Ryabov V. Russkie mificheskie sushchestva. M Mann, Ivanov and Ferber 2023 112s.We have thousands of titles and often several copies of each title may be available. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available.SKUalb0fadc9ae9f93010c.‎

‎Conway Dinna J. Mythological Creatures of the Worlds Peoples. Magical Properti‎

‎Conway Dinna J. Mythological Creatures of the Worlds Peoples. Magical Properties and Opportunities In Russian /Konvey Dinna Dzh. Mifologicheskie sushchestva narodov mira. Magicheskie svoystva i vozmozhnosti Saint Petersburg All 2013. 272 p. We have thousands of titles and often several copies of each title may be available. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUalbb94a0fe2d6320e29.‎

‎Harriet James. More about creatures big and small, beautiful and amazing. In Ru‎

‎Harriet James. More about creatures big and small, beautiful and amazing. In Russian /Kherriot Dzheyms. Eshche o sozdaniyakh bolshikh i malykh, prekrasnykh i udivitelnykh. Series: Green series. Translation from English by I. Gurova. M. Armada. 1999. 350 p. We have thousands of titles and often several copies of each title may be available. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUalbe3d3bb19208838c6.‎