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Living with Leonardo : fifty years of sanity and insanity in the art world and beyond
\"Approaching the 500th anniversary of Leonardo's death, the world-renowned da Vinci expert recounts his fifty year journey with the work of the world's most famous artist. We learn of his encounters with the vast population that surrounds Leonardo: great and lesser academics, collectors and curators, devious dealers and unctuous auctioneers, major scholars and authors and pseudohistorians and fantasists; but also how he has grappled with swelling legions of \"Leonardo loonies\", walked on the eggshells of vested interests in academia and museums, and fended off fusillades of non-Leonardos, sometimes more than one a week. Kemp leads us through his thinking on the Last Supper and the Mona Lisa, retells his part in the identification of the stolen Buccleuch Madonna and explains his involvement with and his theories on the two major Leonardo discoveries of the last 100 years, one of which plummeted into controversy (La Bella Principessa), while the other underwent a rapid ascent into widespread acceptance\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Visual Translation
Visual Translation breaks new ground in the study of French manuscripts, contributing to the fields of French humanism, textual translation, and the reception of the classical tradition in the first half of the fifteenth century.
While the prominence and quality of illustrations in French manuscripts have attracted attention, their images have rarely been studied systematically as components of humanist translation. Anne D. Hedeman fills this gap by studying the humanist book production closely supervised by Laurent de Premierfait and Jean Lebègue for courtly Parisian audiences in the first half of the fifteenth century.
Hedeman explores how visual translation works in a series of unusually densely illuminated manuscripts associated with Laurent and Lebègue circa 1404–54. These manuscripts cover both Latin texts, such as Statius's Thebiad and Achilleid, Terence's Comedies, and Sallust's Conspiracy of Cataline and Jurguthine War, and French translations of Cicero's De senectute, Boccaccio's De casibus virorum illustrium and Decameron, and Bruni's De bello Punico primo. Illuminations constitute a significant part of these manuscripts' textual apparatus, which helped shape access to and interpretation of the texts for a French audience. Hedeman considers them as a group and reveals Laurent's and Lebègue's growing understanding of visual rhetoric and its ability to visually translate texts originating in a culture removed in time or geography for medieval readers who sought to understand them. The book discusses what happens when the visual cycles so carefully devised in collaboration with libraries and artists by Laurent and Lebègue escaped their control in a process of normalization. With over 180 color images, this major reference book will appeal to students and scholars of French, comparative literature, art history, history of the book, and translation studies.
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The Pope's daughter
\"Lucrezia Borgia is one of the most vilified figures in modern history. The daughter of a notorious pope, she was twice betrothed before the age of eleven and thrice married--one husband was forced to declare himself impotent and thereby unfit and another was murdered by Lucrezia's own brother, Cesar Borgia. She is cast in the role of murderess, temptress, incestuous lover, loose woman, femme fatale par excellence. But there is always more than one version of a story. Lucrezia Borgia is the only woman in history to serve as the head of the Catholic Church. She successfully administered several of the Renaissance Italy's most thriving cities, founded one of the world's first credit unions, and was a generous patron of the arts. She was mother to a prince and to a cardinal. She was a devoted wife to the Prince of Ferrara, and the lover of the poet Pietro Bembo. She was a child of the renaissance and in many ways the world's first modern woman.\"--Jacket flap.
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A Greek Thomist
Matthew Briel examines, for the first time, the appropriation
and modification of Thomas Aquinas's understanding of providence by
fifteenth-century Greek Orthodox theologian Gennadios Scholarios.
Briel investigates the intersection of Aquinas's theology, the
legacy of Greek patristic and later theological traditions, and the
use of Aristotle's philosophy by Latin and Greek Christian thinkers
in the thirteenth to fifteenth centuries. A Greek Thomist
reconsiders our current understanding of later Byzantine theology
by reconfiguring the construction of what constitutes \"orthodoxy\"
within a pro- or anti-Western paradigm. The fruit of this
appropriation of Aquinas enriches extant sources for historical and
contemporary assessments of Orthodox theology. Moreover,
Scholarios's grafting of Thomas onto the later Greek theological
tradition changes the account of grace and freedom in Thomistic
moral theology. The particular kind of Thomism that Scholarios
develops avoids the later vexing issues in the West of the de
auxiliis controversy by replacing the Augustinian theology of grace
with the highly developed Greek theological concept of synergy.
A Greek Thomist is perfect for students and scholars of
Greek Orthodoxy, Greek theological traditions, and the continued
influence of Thomas Aquinas.
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Jan Van Eyck : within his art
\"Jan van Eyck was one of the most inventive and influential artists in the entire European tradition. The phenomenal realism of his paintings, now six centuries old, still astounds observers in a world accustomed to high-resolution images. But other dimensions of his work are just as original and absorbing. Unlike any earlier artist, Van Eyck infused his paintings with himself. In addition to portraying, reflecting and implying his own presence in a variety of works, he also introduced his voice, hand and mind in an array of inscriptions, signatures and even a personal motto. Incorporating a wealth of new research and recent discoveries within a fresh exploration of the paintings themselves, this book reveals how profoundly Jan van Eyck transformed the very idea of what an artist could be.\"--Page three of cover.
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Eschatologie v díle Jana Husa
Kniha představuje Husovy myšlenky o posledních věcech tak,
jak nám je dnes zprostředkovává jeho dílo a jeho život, které
tvoří nerozlučný celek. Vychází z obsahového, jazykového
a literárněhistorického rozboru Husových vybraných,
zejména latinských kázání a korespondence. Zohledňuje však
také další jeho díla i tvorbu jiných, pro tuto problematiku
relevantních autorů – především Milíče z Kroměříže,
Matěje z Janova a Johna Wyclifa. Představuje tak Husovu
eschatologii v širším, především reformačním kontextu.
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A companion to Tudor literature
A Companion to Tudor Literature presents a collection of thirty-one newly commissioned essays focusing on English literature and culture from the reign of Henry VII in 1485 to the death of Elizabeth I in 1603. Presents students with a valuable historical and cultural context to the period Discusses key texts and representative subjects, and explores issues including international influences, religious change, travel and New World discoveries, women's writing, technological innovations, medievalism, print culture, and developments in music and in modes of seeing and reading
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