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A Companion to Early Modern Rome, 1492-1692
Winner of the 2020 Bainton Prize for Reference Works A Companion to Early Modern Rome, 1492-1692, edited by Pamela M. Jones, Barbara Wisch, and Simon Ditchfield, is a unique multidisciplinary study offering innovative analyses of a wide range of topics. The 30 chapters critique past and recent scholarship and identify new avenues for research.
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Michel-Ange, un artiste qui fascine
Décryptez l'art de Michel-Ange en moins d'une heure! Enfant « terrible » de la Renaissance italienne, souvent opposé au « gracieux » Raphaël, Michel-Ange est décidément l'artiste de tous les superlatifs, à l'image de son style, monumental, et de ses figures, colossales et expressives à la fois. De son célèbre David aux fresques qui ornent aujourd'hui encore la chapelle Sixtine, ce génie florentin se veut un artiste total, en quête perpétuelle de perfection. Ce livre vous permettra d'en savoir plus sur:
- Le contexte culturel dans lequel évolue Michel-Ange
- La vie de l'artiste et son parcours
- Les caractéristiques et spécificités de son art
- Une sélection d'œuvres-clés de Michel-Ange
- Son impact dans l'histoire de l'art Le mot de l'éditeur:
« Dans ce numéro de la série \"50MINUTES | Artistes\", Delphine Gervais de Lafond propose une excellente synthèse du parcours du mythique Michel-Ange, considéré par d'aucuns comme un véritable Dieu. La preuve? Les foules se pressent encore chaque jour à la chapelle Sixtine pour y admirer ses fresques, témoignages inestimables d'une virtuosité technique exceptionnelle! Cependant, le talent de Michel-Ange ne se limite pas là, et l'auteure nous fournit un panorama complet de sa production, à travers une sélection d'œuvres variées: la Pietà de la basilique Saint-Pierre, le superbe David, le Tondo Doni ou encore le terrifiant Moïse. »
Stéphanie Felten À PROPOS DE LA SÉRIE 50MINUTES | Artistes
La série « Artistes » de la collection « 50MINUTES » aborde plus de cinquante artistes qui ont profondément marqué l'histoire de l'art, du Moyen Âge à nos jours. Chaque livre a été conçu à la fois pour les passionnés d'art et pour les amateurs curieux d'en savoir davantage en peu de temps. Nos auteurs analysent avec précision les œuvres des plus grands artistes tout en laissant place à toutes les interprétations.
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Egypt in Italy : Visions of Egypt in Roman Imperial Culture
\"This book examines the appetite for Egyptian and Egyptian-looking artwork in Italy during the century following Rome's annexation of Aegyptus as a province. In the early imperial period, Roman interest in Egyptian culture was widespread, as evidenced by works ranging from the monumental obelisks, brought to the capital over the Mediterranean Sea by the emperors, to locally made emulations of Egyptian artifacts found in private homes and in temples to Egyptian gods. Although the foreign appearance of these artworks was central to their appeal, this book situates them within their social, political, and artistic contexts in Roman Italy. Swetnam-Burland focuses on what these works meant to their owners and their viewers in their new settings, by exploring evidence for the artists who produced them and by examining their relationship to the contemporary literature that informed Roman perceptions of Egyptian history, customs, and myths\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Isagogical crossroads from the early imperial age to the end of antiquity
This book explores how introductory methods shaped intellectual activity in various fields of thought of the post-Hellenistic Age and Late Antiquity by framing them in a wider interdisciplinary framework.
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Valorizing the Barbarians : enemy speeches in Roman historiography
Comparing and contrasting speeches attributed to barbarian leaders by ancient Roman historians, this book offers a systematic examination of the ways in which those historians valorized foreigners and presented criticisms of their own society.
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Mussolini’s intellectuals
Fascism has traditionally been characterized as irrational and anti-intellectual, finding expression exclusively as a cluster of myths, emotions, instincts, and hatreds. This intellectual history of Italian Fascism--the product of four decades of work by one of the leading experts on the subject in the English-speaking world--provides an alternative account. A. James Gregor argues that Italian Fascism may have been a flawed system of belief, but it was neither more nor less irrational than other revolutionary ideologies of the twentieth century. Gregor makes this case by presenting for the first time a chronological account of the major intellectual figures of Italian Fascism, tracing how the movement's ideas evolved in response to social and political developments inside and outside of Italy.
Gregor follows Fascist thought from its beginnings in socialist ideology about the time of the First World War--when Mussolini himself was a leader of revolutionary socialism--through its evolution into a separate body of thought and to its destruction in the Second World War. Along the way, Gregor offers extended accounts of some of Italian Fascism's major thinkers, including Sergio Panunzio and Ugo Spirito, Alfredo Rocco (Mussolini's Minister of Justice), and Julius Evola, a bizarre and sinister figure who has inspired much contemporary \"neofascism.\"
Gregor's account reveals the flaws and tensions that dogged Fascist thought from the beginning, but shows that if we want to come to grips with one of the most important political movements of the twentieth century, we nevertheless need to understand that Fascism had serious intellectual as well as visceral roots.
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Sallust and the Fall of the Republic
This book offers a new interpretation of the Roman historian Sallust: it reads his works as complex and engaged contributions to the intellectual life of his period, offering a coherent and contemporary perspective on the end of the Roman Republic.
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Brill's Companion to the Classics, Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany
Brill's Companion to the Classics, Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany explores how political propaganda constantly manipulated and reinvented the legacy of ancient Greece and Rome in order to create consensus and historical legitimation for the Fascist and National Socialist dictatorships.
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