
Última actualización: 06/09/2010
In the first major book in four decades on Caterina Sforza (1463-1509), Joyce de Vries investigates the famous noblewoman's cultural endeavors, and explores the ways in which gender, culture, and consumption practices were central to the invention of the self in early modern Italy. Sforza commissioned elaborate artistic and architectural works, participated in splendid civic and religious rituals, and collected a dazzling array of clothing, jewelry, and household goods. By engaging in these realms of cultural production, de Vries suggests, Sforza manipulated masculine and feminine norms of behavior and effectively promoted her social and political agendas.
Drawing on visual evidence, inventories, letters, and contemporary texts, de Vries offers a penetrating new interpretation of women's contributions to early modern culture. She explains the correlations between prescriptive literature and women's actions and reveals the mutability of gender roles in the princely courts. De Vries's analysis of Sforza's posthumous legend suggests that what we see as "the Renaissance" was as much a historical invention as a coherent moment in historical time.
Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez (1599-1660), famous for his intriguing portraits of monarchs, courtiers and jesters, is considered one of the greatest painters of [...]
ver másPublished on the occaion of the jubilee in the year 2000, this important work documents in detail the lagest and most revered church in Christendom, [...]
ver másThe name of the building comes from the phrase 'schivar la noia' (escape from boredom) and refers to its function, a place of leisure for [...]
ver más
This major publication sheds new light on one of the most important artworks produced in late fifteenth century Spain.
The twenty-six panels of the altarpiece [...]
This important volume documents the Art Institute of Chicago's significant, yet relatively unknown, collection of English, French, German, Netherlandish, and Spanish paintings created before 1600. [...]
ver másThis volume catalogues paintings made by artists active in Venice between 1540 and 1600, and includes some of the most important Italian paintings in the [...]
ver másVenice is a magical city. For centuries, Venice has enchanted visitors with its magnificent architecture and romantic canals. As a lone republic amid mostly monarchical [...]
ver más'Painting contains a divine force which not only makes the absent present, as friendship is said to do, but moreover makes the dead seem almost [...]
ver másDutch paintings of the seventeenth century - the Golden Age of Rembrandt van Rijn, Frans Hals, and Johannes Vermeer - have been eagerly collected in [...]
ver másGeorge Stubbs (1724-1806) is now rightly recognised as one of the greatest and most original artists of the eighteenth century. His profound understanding of anatomy [...]
ver másThis is the first catalogue raisonne of Frans Post (1612-1680) published in over 30 years. Post is the first trained artist from the Old World [...]
ver másIl catalogo e la raccolta di saggio realizzati in occasione dell'importante mostra organizzata nella capitale e dedicata agli artisti del Quattrocento e al loro rapporto [...]
ver másCatálogo de obras originales : Creta, Italia, retablos y grandes encargos en España [...]
ver másOf the triumvirate of sixteenth-century Venetian painters, Titian, Veronese, and Tintoretto, Paolo [Caliari] Veronese (1528-1588) best conveyed Venice's civic splendor. His masterpieces in [...]
ver más