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Rubens's Spirit - Art and Ingenuity in Early Modern Europe by Alexander Marr
Category: Art and Design | Series: Renaissance Lives Ser.
Peter Paul Rubens was the most inventive and prolific northern European artist of his age. This book discusses his life and work in relation to three interrelated themes: spirit, ingenuity, and genius. It argues that Rubens and his reception were pivotal in the transformation of early modern ingenuity i ...Show more
Salvator Rosa - Paint and Performance by Helen Langdon
Category: Art and Design | Series: Renaissance Lives Ser.
A compelling biography of the Renaissance painter, known equally for his magnetic personality and unusual subject matter: witchcraft and the sublime. Painter, poet, and actor Salvator Rosa was one of the most engaging and charismatic personalities of seventeenth-century Italy. Although a gifted land ...Show more
Titian's Touch - Art, Magic and Philosophy by Maria Loh; Maria H. Loh
Category: Art and Design | Series: Renaissance Lives Ser.
At the end of his long, prolific life, Titian was rumored to paint directly on the canvas with his bare hands. He would slide his fingers across bright ridges of oil paint, loosening the colors, blending, blurring, and then bringing them together again. With nothing more than the stroke of a thumb or th ...Show more
Tycho Brahe and the Measure of the Heavens by Christianson, John Robert
Category: Art and Design | Series: Renaissance Lives Ser.
The Danish aristocrat and astronomer Tycho Brahe personified the inventive vitality of Renaissance life in the sixteenth century. Brahe lost his nose in a student duel, wrote Latin poetry, and built one of the most astonishing villas of the late Renaissance, while virtually inventing team research and e ...Show more